Pitzer College’s president visited an Israeli university to celebrate academic freedom, soon after students and faculty tried to axe the college’s study-abroad program in Israel and tried to oust him.
A department at New York University said it will boycott the university’s study abroad program due to immigration restrictions imposed by the Israeli government, which would prevent some students and faculty from making it to Israel.
The movement to Boycott, Divest From and Sanction Israel (BDS) just suffered a severe setback as all ten chancellors of the University of California unequivocally condemned in a statement that did not leave much to the imagination.