Very proud that my professional association understands that real academic freedom means using our privileged positions from within the US academy to push forward projects aimed at challenging regimes of partition, segregation, and apartheid, and for recognizing the academy's role in reproducing state power, both domestically and abroad.Â
I hope that this largely symbolic gesture of solidarity will open up greater possibilities for material support for the Palestinian people.Â
The resolution is in solidarity with scholars and students deprived of their academic freedom and it aspires to enlarge that freedom for all, including Palestinians. The ASAâs endorsement of the academic boycott emerges from the context of US military and other support for Israel; Israelâs violation of international law and UN resolutions; the documented impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian scholars and students; the extent to which Israeli institutions of higher education are a party to state policies that violate human rights; and finally, the support of such a resolution by a majority of ASA members.


















