Orwellian Quote of the Year, courtesy of the ASA

Did you think this graphic of mine was satire?

Actually, real Israel-hating "academics" say exactly this. From Inside Higher Ed:

Curtis Marez, president of the association and a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at San Diego, was quoted as saying: "The boycott is the best way to protect and expand academic freedom and access to education."

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The deranged hate that some people have against Israel, that causes such an obvious disconnect from reality,  can only be compared to one other historical deranged hatred. For good reason. Because any way you slice it, the illogical hatred against the Jewish state we see today is a straight line descendant of historic bigotry against the Jews as a group. The proud, self-declared anti-semites of the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s offered lots of academic-sounding arguments as well to put a scholarly facade on their bigotry.

The American Association of University Professors wrote an open letter to the ASA saying why academic boycotts are hypocritical. But you won't find a copy of it on the ASA website or Facebook page. Some issues are apparently so important that it would be dangerous to expose people to another point of view. The ASA must think that its members simply cannot be trusted with hearing both sides of a story.

(h/t DM)