Here’s a statement on the ASA website from a self-hating Jew:
Eric Cheyfitz, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell University
I am a Jew with a daughter and three grandchildren who are citizens of Israel. I am a scholar of American Indian and Indigenous studies, who has in published word and action opposed settler colonialism wherever it exists, including of course the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. It is worth noting in this respect that just as the myth of American exceptionalism seeks to erase the genocide and ongoing settler colonialism of Indigenous peoples here in the United States so the myth of Israeli exceptionalism seeks to erase Israeli colonialism in Palestine and claim original rights to Palestinian lands. It is from these personal and professional positions that I applaud the decision of the NC to support the Academic boycott of Israel, which I support, and urge ASA members to affirm that support with their votes.
A Jew with a daughter and three grandchildren in Israel, who enable the murders of his own family.
A fool.
Looking at a number of the statements from ASA members, many of them mention “anti-colonialism.” You can see how Obama’s anti-colonialist beliefs play into his hatred of Israel.
Let him get what he wants... good and hard.
Then both problems will be solved: idiotic, left-wing Jews in American academia will quit running their mouths, and the middle east will have the “peace” that American leftists so much desire.
In an earlier day, Cheyfitz would have turned in his family to the NAZIs and called it a peace overture to Herr Hitler.
I am certain Cheyfitz would cheerfully volunteer to scrape out the ovens at the turn of every work shift......for free.
Here’s what Angela Davis (yes, that Angela Davis), has to to say:
The similarities between historical Jim Crow practices and contemporary regimes of segregation in Occupied Palestine make this resolution an ethical imperative for the ASA. If we have learned the most important lesson promulgated by Dr. Martin Luther King—that justice is always indivisible—it should be clear that a mass movement in solidarity with Palestinian freedom is long overdue.
more on this tenured useless eater...English prof by the way
http://as.cornell.edu/academics/opportunities/diversity-fellowships/cheyfitz.cfm
Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, where he teaches American literatures, American Indian literatures, and federal Indian law. He is the author of three books: The Transparent: Sexual Politics in the Language of Emerson (1981); The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan (1991, 1997); and The (Post)Colonial Construction of Indian Country: U.S. American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law, which appears as Part I of his edited volume, The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States since 1945 (2006). In addition to these books he has published numerous essays in the fields of law, literature, cultural and postcolonial studies. His most recent publication is an essay, “What Is A Just Society? Native American Philosophies and the Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination,” which appeared in Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (110:2, Spring 2011), which he also co-edited.
In addition to his scholarly publications, Cheyfitz has been the director of Cornell’s American Indian Program and the faculty coordinator for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Cornell. He has been an op-ed columnist for the newspaper, Indian Country Today, has appeared in the award-winning documentary film on Western Shoshone land rights, Our Land, Our Life (2007), as well as on public radio, where he has discussed issues of academic freedom, federal Indian law, and Native American literatures. He has served as an expert witness in the academic freedom case of Ward Churchill, and in cases involving Indian rights. Throughout his career, his focus has been to connect his scholarship and teaching to progressive social action.