Modern Language Association Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/modern-language-association/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:55:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Modern Language Association Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/modern-language-association/ 32 32 59910430 MLA to Vote to Boycott Israeli Universities; CCS Opposes https://concernedscientists.org/2017/01/mla-to-vote-to-boycott-israeli-universities-ccs-opposes/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:55:42 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=5753 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 […]

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]]> 5753 Reject Boycott of Israel https://concernedscientists.org/2014/01/reject-boycott-of-israel/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:17:25 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3062 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 Israel for the violation of academic rights while ignoring the immensely greater violations of academic rights, as well as far more basic and universal rights, in dozens of countries around the world.

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