“WHEN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT Curtis F. Marez gave his absurd “one has to start somewhere” answer to a New York Times reporter’s question as to why one should single out Israel’s universities for a boycott, one might have thought he had set the gold standard for empty boycott advocacy. But soon a still more vacuous contestant arrived. At the pro-boycott session on January 9 at the Modern Language Association’s 2014 annual meeting, University of Texas professor and panelist Barbara Harlow offered her own concise answer to the “Why boycott Israel?” question: “Why not?” - Cary Nelson, ”The Problem with Judith Butler: The Political Philosophy of the Movement to Boycott Israel“

One of eight essays on Academic Activism: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Ethics of Boycott. Read them all here.