A week after members of the American Studies Association voted to endorse an academic boycott of Israel,
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A week after members of the American Studies Association voted to endorse an academic boycott of Israel, two more American colleges have joined the backlash against the scholarly group by opting to withdraw from it.
On Monday, Michael A. McRobbie, Indiana University’s president, announced that the university would pull out of the association as an institutional member. He also condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the decision by the association and other groups to impose a boycott, and urged them “to rescind this dangerous and ill-conceived action.”
Also on Monday, Sean M. Decatur, president of Kenyon College, said much the same thing. “I reject the notion of a boycott of academic institutions as a geopolitical tool,” he wrote on his blog.
The announcements follow moves, announced last week, by two other universities—Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg and Brandeis University—to cut their ties with the association.
