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Richard L. Cravatts

Necrocapitalism, according to visiting professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, is the “means of accumulating capital and profit from the death” of Palestinians.
In the fantasy world of toxic anti-Israel activists, they are always the victim
Activism for Palestinian self-determination has never been about statehood but about eliminating Israel.
In calling for an academic boycott against Israel, the Middle East Studies Association reveals its obsessive hatred of the Jewish state.
“Do other clubs need to apologize for writing statements that some may disagree with?” asked the national branch of Students Supporting Israel.
How an opinion piece in the student newspaper at the University of Connecticut exposes what wrong in the debate about Israel.
Why academic departments in an American university would be taking a moral stand on a political situation in the Middle East in the first place—and not only that, but on behalf of a terror-led genocidal group like Hamas—is another question.
There is another, far darker and more pernicious aspect to the call by Virginia Tech grad students for a boycott of Israeli universities—Israeli academics would be suppressed and robbed of the ability to speak.
When the Jewish state is involved, normally disinterested people suddenly care about assessing the appropriate levels of U.S. aid being doled out to a single foreign state, trying to decide what levels of aid, if any, are acceptable.