Op Ed: Why Academic Boycotts are Wrong

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

2003

Publication Title

Chronicle of Higher Education

Keywords

Israel, acadmic boycotts

Abstract

Calls for an academic boycott of Israel and for universities to stop investing in Israeli companies have struck me with special force because I spent last spring as a Fulbright fellow in Israel, teaching bio-ethics at Bar-Ilan University, outside Tel Aviv. Academic boycotts undermine the basic premise of intellectual life that ideas make a difference, and the corollary that intellectual exchanges across cultures can open minds.

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Volume

49

Issue

32

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