The Modern Language Association (MLA) is set to vote on a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. CCS strongly opposes any academic boycotts. Such an action closes movement in the direction of tolerance, investigative thought and the promotion of new ideas. CCS urges the participants at the Delegate Assembly to oppose such an action and to vote against such a boycott, in Israel and anywhere ... Continue Reading>>
Reject Boycott of Israel
By Walter Reich, CCS Co-Chair An American academic organization is poised to begin sweeping a respected segment of academia into the dustbin of intellectual and moral irrelevancy. At its annual meeting this week, the 30,000-member Modern Language Association will hold a session aimed at strategizing how to mount academic boycotts against Israel, and will consider a resolution critical of ... Continue Reading>>