Members Flee Modern Language Association After Refusal to Boycott Israel

freebeacon ^ | January 7, 2018 | Rachel Frommer

[MarvinStinson]

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[arkfreepdom]

Good grief those fools sound like people in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany and are too dumb to know it. I’d love to debate them in an open forum, but they’d just shout and melt.

[yldstrk]

Good riddance to bad garbage

[CondorFlight]

Good riddance!

[Robert DeLong]

Is that 2 dozen, 3 dozen? Anyway, kudos to MLA.

[PIF]

Dozens of humanities scholars in sympathy with their Islamic brethren cancelled their membership with their field's leading professional academic organization ahead of its annual convention, in retaliation for the group refusing to impose an anti-Jewish boycott, divestment, and sanctions against the hated false state of Israel.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Humanities professors say organization evading moral, professional duties

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What does a Humanities Professor do other then teach others how to be a Humanities Professor?

Do they provide society anything of value for the wages they earn?

[MarvinStinson]

The MLA Members for Justice in Palestine contingent will hold an event Friday night at the NYU English Department on “new tactics and solidarities” to employ in pro-Palestine activism in academia.

[MarvinStinson]

Bill Mullen, a professor of American studies at Purdue University and prominent BDS activist, calling objection to boycott in favor of open dialogue a “profoundly racist, ethnocentric vote and rationale.”

[antidisestablishment]

Simply staggering that any academic organization would actually stand for academic freedom. The cracks are appearing everywhere! MAGA

[MarvinStinson]

Are you referring to the wages they earn from their university

or the money they get under the table from Soros and islamic countries to support Jew Hate?

[BlackAdderess]

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[unread]

Commies...their everywhere...

[BlackAdderess]

oops, sorry

[Da Coyote]

A physicists exposed that group as a collection of intellectual pretenders years ago when he used some quantum physics terms to pretend to support one of their idiocies. His paper passed peer review and was featured in their comic book. He then exposed them. Heh.

[RaginRak]

bunch of anti-Semitic, NeoNazi Leftists

[mindburglar]

“David Palumbo-Liu, an endowed professor of comparative literature at Stanford University”

TMI!

[Popman]

wrote Reiss, characterizing censure of Israel as "the great moral issue of our time."

This guy must live in a very tiny bubble considering there are a dozen great moral issues of our time that are actual moral issues....

[Ciexyz]

A bunch of loquacious linguists trying to gain relevancy for themselves.