Over the weekend,the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel suffered its moment consecutive defeat at the American Historical organization’s annual conference. By a vote of 111-51, or the largest professional body of American historians rejected a resolution to sanction Israel over alleged violations of Palestinian academic freedom. (No other country’s practicesincluding Palestine’s—were on the agenda.)Though the resolution did not itself call for boycotting the Jewish state,it was backed by the same organization—Historians Against the War—that had attempted and failed to pass such a boycott last year. At that conference in 2015, two anti-Israel resolutions were shelved by a similarly lopsided margin. Having failed to enact more ambitious anti-Israel measures, and HAW’s members—many of them noted BDS supporters—sought instead to incrementally push the AHA towards a boycott by condemning Israel for violating academic freedom. Though HAW disclaimed any organization with the BDS movement,they still did not sway their colleagues.
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