Rethinking BDS
A shorter version of this post will soon appear online as a podcast, in coordination with the motion put to a vote among the membership of the American…
Tag: academic boycott
How BDS Risks Going over to the Dark Side; or, Why I am Ashamed of My Association
I get the logic of boycotts. In high school, I stopped buying grapes to support Cesar Chavez’ protest of the slave-like working conditions of Mexican farm workers in grape vineyards.…
US Anthropology: Political, Professional, Personal, Imperial
Part One of: “Canadian Anthropology or Cultural Imperialism?” Recent events have called into question how a discipline can be commanded on an international plane, and represented in a…
BDS, the AAA, and Academic Imperialism
We Disagree to Agree Support for a particular cause can come from numerous sources and points of view, each representing different interests. Similarly, people can arrive at the…
Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Movement: to Be or Not-to-Be? #Palestine
A few months ago a fellow anthropologist colleague forwarded me a petition: Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. The main goal is to voice opposition to the…
Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Israel/Palestine Task Force Report #Palestine
On 8 October 2015, Israeli security forces brutally beat and arrested two students of Birzeit University, a major Palestinian university in the West Bank. In response, Birzeit issued…
Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report
The Task Force on AAA Engagement on Israel-Palestine issued its final report today. It is a long and thorough report, so I won’t attempt to summarize the whole…
Partha Chatterjee: Why I Support the Boycott of Israeli Institutions
[Savage Minds is honored to publish this essay by Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and of the…
Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Brian Boyd
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present the latest in a series of essays reflecting on the decision to support the boycott until…
“Why I signed” (the petition AGAINST academic boycott of Israeli institutions)
I have signed the petition against the academic boycott of Israeli institutions by the American Anthropological Association. After signing, I felt as if I had taken my stand…