Posts Tagged: Modern Language Association
Sex, Politics, and Judith Butler at NYU
A few days ago, I happened upon a letter of August 17 in the Chronicle of Higher Education calling upon Professor Judith Butler to step down...
Israel Boycotts Defeated at Modern Language Association, but More Trouble May Be Brewing
While advocates of anti-Israel boycotts at the Modern Language Association (MLA) sustained significant setbacks in 2017, their campaign to isolate the Jewish state may resurface...
Who’s Really Behind the Academic Boycott Against Israel?
One of the main challenges to hopes for peace in the Middle East is the campaign to boycott and isolate Israel, the only true democracy...
American Historical Association Rejects Anti-Israel Resolutions for Third Time in Two Years
The oldest and largest society of US historians rejected two anti-Israel petitions last week, the blog History News Network reported. At its 131st annual gathering, held in Denver on Jan. 5-8,...
Jewish Academic Uses Nazi Imagery to Attack Peers Successful at Defeating BDS Motion at Modern Language Association Conference
A Jewish academic used Nazi imagery to attack fellow scholars who were successful in preventing a BDS motion from passing at a conference over the weekend,...
The Modern Language Association and BDS
In the Department of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- where I teach -- approximately one third of my students are Arab women....
Prominent Scholars Slam Modern Language Association for Entertaining ‘Shameful’ BDS Resolution, Politicizing Academia
Two American scholars called an anti-Israel motion being brought before the upcoming conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA) a "shameful maneuver" that highlights the worrisome politicization of academia. Referring...
Legal Group Threatens Action Against Modern Language Association Over BDS Motion That Counters Academic Organization’s Tax-Exempt Status
A Jewish civil rights organization threatened a prominent academic body with legal action on the grounds that an anti-Israel motion it is considering runs counter to the...
MLA Members Reject Resolution Condemning Israel
JNS.org - The membership of the Modern Language Association (MLA) did not ratify Resolution 2014-1, which condemns Israel for denying "academics of Palestinian ethnicity...
Why Do Israel Haters Want to Silence Their Academic Critics?
During the Modern Language Association's meeting of the Delegate Assembly this past April, the MLA voted to approve Resolution 2014-1. This new resolution passed by...
Message Board Shows Modern Language Association Academics Based Israel Boycott on Anti-Semitic Tropes
Academics at the Modern Language Association were lambasted on Wednesday in an Op-Ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education after an online message board revealed anti-Semitic...
MLA Caucus Introduces Resolution in Support of Israel-Boycotting ASA
JNS.org - At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Chicago on Friday, an MLA caucus introduced an "Emergency Resolution in Support of the American Studies Association," JNS.org...
U.S.-Israeli Prof. Slams MLA Conference as Assault on Academic Freedom (INTERVIEW)
An American-Israeli professor, addressing a counter-conference on the sidelines of a polemical Modern Language Association annual meeting in Chicago, on Thursday said the MLA resolution seeking...
The MLA’s Top Five BDS Blunders This Week
The Modern Language Association (MLA) has blundered repeatedly over its treatment of Israel in the run-up to its annual conference this week. Technically the 30,000...
