BDS Resolution Fails at Social Problems Conference

By Colleen Flaherty. Members of the Society for the Study of Social Problems introduced a resolution calling for the boycott of “complicit Israeli academic institutions” at its annual meeting in New York this month. The resolution, which ultimately failed, sought to “foster support for our Palestinian academic colleagues, whose basic human rights, including the right to education and academic freedom, have been denied for decades under Israel’s military occupation and racist policies,” supporters said in a statement. More...