Modern Language Association fails to ratify anti-Israel resolution

From the MLA:

Resolution 2014-1 (see text below) was not ratified by the membership and therefore does not represent a position taken by the MLA. Resolutions forwarded to the membership must be ratified by a majority vote in which the number of those voting for ratification equals at least ten percent of the association’s membership, which was 2,390 votes this year. There were 1,560 votes in favor of ratification and 1,063 votes against ratification. The vote therefore fell short of ratification by 830 votes.

Even so, of the people who voted, far more voted for the resolution.

A couple of week ago an internal MLA mailing list was leaked showing that some of the Israel-haters pushing the resolution were also antisemites.

 Academia is in sad shape.

(h/t StandWithUs)