MLA Commons | David C. Lloyd | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/dclloyd/activity/ Activity feed for David C. Lloyd. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8d573d9368170c730036e9ed78862403 David C. Lloyd started the topic BDS and the Inversion of Victimhood in the discussion Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/bds-and-the-inversion-of-victimhood-2/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 04:10:13 -0500 Submitted by faculty members in MLA-related fields at Israeli universities

This statement, at MLABoycott’s website, is presented anonymously by Israeli academics who support the boycott of Israeli universities.  The faculty are forced to sign anonymously because of a 2011 law passed by the Israeli parliament that prohibits support for BDS a…[Read more]

]]> 0 37b22e6521c5de350551e15ac9e3ce85 David C. Lloyd started the topic BDS and the Inversion of Victimhood in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/bds-and-the-inversion-of-victimhood/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 04:09:51 -0500 Submitted by faculty members in MLA-related fields at Israeli universities

This statement, at MLABoycott’s website, is presented anonymously by Israeli academics who support the boycott of Israeli universities.  The faculty are forced to sign anonymously because of a 2011 law passed by the Israeli parliament that prohibits support for BDS among I…[Read more]

]]> 0 827d7047a5c9557a6d85ec0d2a3a7187 David C. Lloyd started the topic Judith Butler and Ariella Azoulay on the logic of the academic boycott in the discussion Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/judith-butler-and-ariella-azoulay-on-the-logic-of-the-academic-boycott-2/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 04:04:02 -0500 Both Judith Butler and Ariella Azoulay have recently posted at MLABoycott’s site, articulating their rationale for supporting the boycott of Israeli academic institutions at this time.

Azoulay writes:

“The boycott targets the Israeli regime, not Israeli citizens, unless they act as representatives of the regime. What, then, is the position…[Read more]

]]> 0 c202490f0f6a2d2d2822527d547fa2d9 David C. Lloyd started the topic Judith Butler and Ariella Azoulay on the logic of the academic boycott in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/judith-butler-and-ariella-azoulay-on-the-logic-of-the-academic-boycott/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 04:03:41 -0500 Both Judith Butler and Ariella Azoulay have recently posted at MLABoycott’s site, articulating their rationale for supporting the boycott of Israeli academic institutions at this time.

Azoulay writes:

“The boycott targets the Israeli regime, not Israeli citizens, unless they act as representatives of the regime. What, then, is the position of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c76962207779cfb561b1893c11da25fe David C. Lloyd started the topic Jeff Sacks responds to Anthony Appiah in the discussion English Literature Other Than British and American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/jeff-sacks-responds-to-anthony-appiah-2/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 03:56:12 -0500 This open letter by Jeff Sacks, in response to Anthony Apia’s recent blog on the Commons, appeared in the online journal Jadaliyya: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25811/an-open-letter-to-kwame-anthony-appiah-president-o

Sacks writes:

With all of the talk about academic freedom, what is this “freedom” that we are talking about, if it i…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0e4363368ddd44f3b103709a0f1b7ff David C. Lloyd started the topic Jeff Sacks responds to Anthony Appiah in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/jeff-sacks-responds-to-anthony-appiah/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 03:55:51 -0500 This open letter by Jeff Sacks, in response to Anthony Apia’s recent blog on the Commons, appeared in the online journal Jadaliyya: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25811/an-open-letter-to-kwame-anthony-appiah-president-o

Sacks writes:

With all of the talk about academic freedom, what is this “freedom” that we are talking about, if it is n…[Read more]

]]> 0 f70b04cf030e80058a5f7279a7f36836 David C. Lloyd started the topic John Berger (1926-2017): critic, essayist and BDS advocate in the discussion Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/john-berger-1926-2017-critic-essayist-and-bds-advocate-2/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:23:30 -0500 We have received the sad news that the great essayist and art critic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-obituary">John Berger</a> died today, January 2, at age 90. He was a principled supporter of BDS.  In 2006 he wrote what is referred to as <a…[Read more]

]]> 0 336959166476d0deeafb14e413ed7abf David C. Lloyd started the topic John Berger (1926-2017): critic, essayist and BDS advocate in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/john-berger-1926-2017-critic-essayist-and-bds-advocate/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:23:08 -0500 We have received the sad news that the great essayist and art critic John Berger died today, January 2, at age 90. He was a principled supporter of BDS.  In 2006 he wrote what is referred to as The Berger Letter, endorsing the cultural boycott of Israel institutions. It reads in part:

“As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a…[Read more]

]]> 0 be5c003b8d03158ff7d26f688d234b56 David C. Lloyd started the topic Statements from academics and students in Palestinian higher education in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/statements-from-academics-and-colleagues-in-hiofgher-eductaion/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:51:46 -0500 <div class=”entry-content”>

palestinian-voices

Objections to the MLA Boycott resolution uniformly focus on its supposed abridgement of academic freedom to individual scholars in the US or in Israel without any concern for the educational rights of Palestinians.  Purposefully obfuscating the case, critics of the boycott resolution brush past the resolution’s de…[Read more]

]]> 0 caf40bbaf37471e6ec05721ab8cda81f David C. Lloyd started the topic Daniel Boyarin on the boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the discussion Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/daniel-boyarin-on-the-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:47:52 -0500 Jewish Studies scholar Daniel Boyarin has issued the following statement about academic boycott:

"I am on record, even on Israeli television, as a supporter of BDS and of a limited academic boycott as well. By limited boycott I mean that I do not countenance boycotts of individuals (Let he who is sinless cast the first stone) but of…[Read more]

]]> 0 38ecdc65476f131fb8ecadfe6ee7b287 David C. Lloyd started the topic Daniel Boyarin on the boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/daniel-boyarin-on-the-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:47:33 -0500 Jewish Studies scholar Daniel Boyarin has issued the following statement about academic boycott:

“I am on record, even on Israeli television, as a supporter of BDS and of a limited academic boycott as well. By limited boycott I mean that I do not countenance boycotts of individuals (Let he who is sinless cast the first stone) but of institutions…[Read more]

]]> 0 86744c459446dac1664f0cf339ecddb5 David C. Lloyd started the topic Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond to Anthony Appiah in the discussion Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/jacques-lezra-and-tim-reiss-respond-to-anthony-appiah-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:14:59 -0500 In a recent blog issues in his capacity as MLA President, <a href="https://president.mla.hcommons.org/2016/11/02/taking-issue-taking-stock/">Anthony Appiah</a> addressed the current debate around justice and academic freedom for our Palestinian colleagues.

MLA Colleagues Bill Mullen, Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond here:

<strong>Bill…[Read more]

]]> 0 844856f4ba28d32901ff78a302f9c6ae David C. Lloyd started the topic Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond to Anthony Appiah in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/jacques-lezra-and-tim-reiss-respond-to-anthony-appiah/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:14:39 -0500 In a recent blog issues in his capacity as MLA President, Anthony Appiah addressed the current debate around justice and academic freedom for our Palestinian colleagues.

MLA Colleagues Bill Mullen, Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond here:

Bill Mullen

As a supporter of the MLA resolution to boycott Israeli universities, I would like to make…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cab2104570f29381f1e1b66911c64db David C. Lloyd started the topic Cary Nelson's Support for Boycott of Academic Institutions in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/cary-nelsons-support-for-boycott-of-academic-institutions/ Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:01:04 -0500 The following extracts are from an in-depth report on Cary Nelson’s shifting and often inconsistent pronouncements on academic freedom and boycotts that appeared in Mondoweiss in 2014. It is gratifying to know that Nelson supports and participates in academic boycotts, if under conditions of his own choosing.

Boycotting universities for labor…[Read more]

]]> 0 051783f1be83d4a2e531019a6a1c4f06 David C. Lloyd started the topic Brandeis Center: another nuisance suit threatened in the discussion Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/brandeis-center-another-nuisance-suit-threatened-2/ Tue, 27 Dec 2016 20:02:20 -0500 The Brandeis Center, notorious these days for launching efforts to censor other people's freedom of speech, has just threatened the MLA with a lawsuit if it passes the boycott resolution. For responses to this clumsy effort at intimidation, see David Lloyd…[Read more]

]]> 0 e444db663232f9c729b6da087aa70c58 David C. Lloyd started the topic Brandeis Center: another nuisance suit threatened in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/brandeis-center-another-nuisance-suit-threatened/ Tue, 27 Dec 2016 20:02:00 -0500 The Brandeis Center, notorious these days for launching efforts to censor other people’s freedom of speech, has just threatened the MLA with a lawsuit if it passes the boycott resolution. For responses to this clumsy effort at intimidation, see David Lloyd at:

Threat of Legal Action Against MLA

and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd4ed28fd89d0100a6e1cd6ce7eed8ae David C. Lloyd started the topic Another IDF Invasion of a Palestinian Campus in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/another-idf-invasion-of-a-palestinian-campus/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:24:10 -0500 This report comes from our Palestinian colleagues at Birzeit University.

http://www.birzeit.edu/en/news/israeli-occupation-continues-strangle-palestines-education

In continuation of its barbaric aggression on our people and national institutions, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Birzeit University’s campus in the early morning hours of W…[Read more]

]]> 0 aecc4e49f31a7d66e2bde63f358ef709 David C. Lloyd started the topic Conditions for Palestinian Higher Education: MLA Members Report in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/conditions-for-palestinian-higher-education-mla-members-report/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:04:15 -0500 In June, 2016 a group of six MLA members traveled together to the West Bank and Israel to find out what it was like for Palestinian academics and students trying to study, teach, and research at universities in the occupied territories and within Israel itself.  In addition to learning about academic conditions under occupation, the group also wa…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1b7a09c2a8be7d3a57e4ae5978f58d0 David C. Lloyd started the topic New Items at MLA Boycott site: David Palumbo-Liu and Candice Fujikane in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/new-items-at-mla-boycott-site-david-palumbo-liu-and-candice-fujikane/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:44:30 -0500 A new report by MLA members who traveled to Palestine this summer to explore conditions for Palestinian professors and students in universities and colleges is now available at: https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/report-on-mla-members-trip-to-the-west-bank-and-israel/

Additionally, there are a number of new items, including these…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce07517bf953a8d93ebcc3e958a4c49d David C. Lloyd started the topic Responding to the Call (to Endorse the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions) in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/responding-to-the-call-to-endorse-the-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:34:25 -0500 Rebecca Comay and David Lloyd explain the importance of the academic boycott resolution that they have submitted to the MLA for a vote at the Delegate Assembly when it meets on January 7 in Philadelphia. The op ed encourages MLA members to “respond to the call” of Palestinian civil society and endorse the boycott of Israeli academic inst…[Read more]

]]> 0 daadcd7fe204c52a28be2d4aaf458f1d David C. Lloyd started the topic Higher Education in Palestine: A Report by MLA Members in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/higher-education-in-palestine-a-report-by-mla-members/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:30:37 -0500 screen-shot-2016-12-06-at-11-24-11-am

In June, 2016 a group of six MLA members traveled together to the West Bank and Israel to find out what it was like for Palestinian academics and students trying to study, teach, and research at universities in the occupied territories and within Israel itself.  In addition to learning about academic conditions under occupation,  the group al…[Read more]

]]> 0 5aa93194475d05c799e0d0d0e437b3b0 David C. Lloyd uploaded the file: 2017:2 Resolution to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions: Evidence to MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555625/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:28:31 -0500 This is an updated document containing evidence for each clause of the resolution, a slightly updated version of which is included in the document.

]]> 0 8a5882838798813a9daec452aa2d4d20 David C. Lloyd deleted the file: MLA Resolution ACBI Evidence from MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555624/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:25:45 -0500 0 d0d232b7f0ca3752cbddb4dd6e7e5eb3 David C. Lloyd started the topic Statements by MLA Members in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/statements-by-mla-members/ Thu, 12 May 2016 21:17:07 -0400 ” I urge all colleagues to endorse this reasonable and well formulated resolution and make clear their refusal to remain silent in the face of escalating brutality directed at a desperate population of civilians living under alien military occupation.” Ian Balfour

Check out the MLA Members for Justice in Palestine website for recent statements on…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e0b968fdbe49724b81cadb73c6bf5dd David C. Lloyd started the topic The Hypocrisy of the Anti-BDS Lawsuit in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/the-hypocrisy-of-the-anti-bds-lawsuit/ Thu, 12 May 2016 21:04:44 -0400 Even an opponent of boycotts agrees that:

“This is frivolous litigation designed for the sole purpose of getting the government to suppress the freedom of speech of a private organization. It should be condemned by everyone on all sides of the BDS issue, and anyone who believes in liberty….
This is a demand by conservatives for government…[Read more]

]]> 0 386d3d47df208284bc019e23837dfbcc David C. Lloyd started the topic Repression of BDS Activists: Omar Barghouti denied the right to travel in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/repression-of-bds-activists-omar-barghouti-denied-the-right-to-travel/ Thu, 12 May 2016 18:33:56 -0400 In recent months, Israel and its supporters have been ramping up their campaign to suppress BDS activism globally, having failed to prevent this non-violent civil society movement from disseminating information about Israel’s discriminatory regime, continuing acts of dispossession, and unrelenting violations of human rights and international law.…[Read more]

]]> 0 842bfbf14dc0a920a31cbc13528ba1d0 David C. Lloyd started the topic Review of Books on BDS in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/review-of-books-on-bds/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:02:46 -0500 In this review, Conor McCarthy reviews four recent books discussing the pros and cons of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.  As he concludes, “these four books contain a wealth of ideas and information and a range of opinion that will enlighten anyone with even a passing interest in the matters of academic freedom and the politics of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0a80cbd7dbc93fa27bc112e6b283231 David C. Lloyd started the topic Walter Benjamin in Palestine in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/walter-benjamin-in-palestine/ Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:17:48 -0500 This past December, a conference was held in Ramallah, entitled: “Walter Benjamin in Palestine: On the Place and Non-Place of Radical Thought”. David Lloyd reports here on that conference, which was organized to honor the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions and as an alternative to a Benjamin conference being held in the same…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0e7ac1af3bcddcd9b7b195793e3703e David C. Lloyd started the topic W.J.T. Mitchell's "Palestine at the 2016 MLA" in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/w-j-t-mitchells-palestine-at-the-2016-mla/ Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:18:33 -0500 W.J.T. Mitchell writes on the Critical Inquiry blog of the 2016 convention’s discussion of the boycott resolution and the question of Palestine: “It seemed clear to me that the discussion has now moved beyond a simple “for or against” rhetoric into a more nuanced debate over the internal struggles of BDS to refine its tactics and reach out to form…[Read more]

]]> 0 e38ac728a516faef19c9c1396e88fb89 David C. Lloyd changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539215/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:46:13 -0500 0 27b9143c7a7e10cbd897f96b32dd55af David C. Lloyd started the topic Petiton against French government censorship if BDS in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/petiton-against-french-government-censorship-if-bds/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:44:06 -0500 This account of the French government’s criminalization of BDS, by French scholars publicly opposing it, comes with an appeal to academics internationally to protest this startling restriction of freedom of speech in the land that claims to have invented rights of free speech.  Once again, the Israeli exception seems to hold sway with the usual…[Read more]

]]> 0 403da891442f44a316d2219001354fbd David C. Lloyd started the topic On MLA 2016's boycott debates in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/on-mla-2016s-boycott-debates/ Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:05:20 -0500 David Lloyd’s response to the debates at MLA 2016, from Jadaliyya:

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23598/racism-in-the-defense-of-a-racist-state_some-refle

“The vast majority of Palestinians have, through their organizations, voiced their call to us to side with them and to rectify the vast imbalance of power between them and the Israeli…[Read more]

]]> 0 546e6c5dc04db8a962de71f60e4382b9 David C. Lloyd started the topic Even as MLA 2016 was debating the boycott.... in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/even-as-mla-2016-was-debating-the-boycott/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:41:59 -0500 on January 11, the Israeli army once again invaded Birzeit:

http://www.birzeit.edu/news/birzeit-university-condemns-israeli%E2%80%99s-constant-violations-right-education

From the statement by Birzeit University:

More than fifteen military Israeli vehicles raided Birzeit University at 2:50 in the morning breaking through the entrance to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 356ba5bef749dcf5753603c3baf832f4 David C. Lloyd started the topic Israeli Invasion of Birzeit in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/israeli-invasion-of-birzeit/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:36:27 -0500 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/birzeit-university-rises-israel-arrests-160106083537743.html

From the article:

“Nineteen-year-old Jureen Omar Qadah, who majors in media studies, was arrested on October 28 when Israeli forces raided her home in Shukba. Her sister, Sabrin, recalled the night of the arrest. “They took her at around two…[Read more]

]]> 0 641b9bfbed3959c9c846f6b986e93a22 David C. Lloyd started the topic Saree Makdisi on discrimination in Israeli education in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/saree-makdisi-on-discrimination-in-israeli-education/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:18:44 -0500 This Los Angeles Times op ed by Saree Makdisi is a short version of his paper for the debate panel on the academic boycott, Thursday January 7, at MLA 2016.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-makdisi-why-support-the-academic-boycott-of-israel-20160108-story.html

]]> 0 328c4ad58116caf6941c005b763756b1 David C. Lloyd started the topic Palestine Related Panels at MLA 2016 in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/palestine-related-panels-at-mla-2016/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:54:48 -0500 These are the panels that include papers relevant to Palestine and the academic boycott resolution at MLA 2016.  Please do your utmost to attend the two panels on Thursday afternoon at which the boycott resolution will be debated (Panels 119 and 148):

Thursday

Boycotting Israeli Academic Institutions

Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Lo…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ff002865391d0f33b8f04775d41e288 David C. Lloyd started the topic On the AAA's Task Force Report on Academic Conditions in Palestine in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/on-the-aaas-task-force-report-on-academic-conditions-in-palestine/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:48:41 -0500 This essay discusses the report of a task force established by the American Anthropological Association to investigate conditions for academics and students in Palestine under Israeli Occupation;

Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Task Force Report on Israel/Palestine

 

The report itself can be found…[Read more]

]]> 0 828e88eead655136aba47ac5cad81332 David C. Lloyd started the topic Facts and Myths about the Boycott in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/facts-and-myths-about-the-boycott/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:22:01 -0500 A document discussing many myths disseminated about the boycott and its consequences can be found on our Documents tab;

Facts and Myths about the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

]]> 0 51d042c6c7ec2b275b472d51371dd29d David C. Lloyd edited the doc Facts and Myths about the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/537686/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:20:20 -0500 0 31f49d460981a1107a8667ccde24995a David C. Lloyd created the doc Facts and Myths about the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/537685/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:17:48 -0500 0 19b1c926bd4eb99f37b54b4d1943df9b David C. Lloyd started the topic David Palumbo-Liu on "The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel" in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/david-palumbo-liu-on-the-case-against-academic-boycotts-of-israel/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:12:44 -0500 David Palumbo-Liu’s  “Not so Much anti-Boycott as Pro-Israel” [symploke 23.1-2 (2015)] is comprehensive critique of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm.

Academic Boycott Debates: Palumbo-Liu vs Nelson and Brahm

]]> 0 7fc32b55b71d52ba5bd4355f3ebde3ee David C. Lloyd started the topic New Website and Facebook for MLA Boycott in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/new-website-for-mla-boycott/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:09:36 -0500 For more information and discussion of the resolution to endorse the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions, please check our new website, which is open to public viewing and regularly updated with news, links and blog-posts, and our Facebook page. Like us there!

https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/&hellip;[Read more]

]]> 0 b15756062b2de4ff41e4ff5b837c9b00 David C. Lloyd started the topic Anthropology and Women's Studies Associations Move to Endorse the Boycott in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/anthropology-and-womens-studies-associations-move-to-endorse-the-boycott/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:06:22 -0500 This November, the business meeting of the American Anthropological Association overwhelmingly voted–by a margin of 86%–to send a resolution to endorse the Palestinian Call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to the full membership for a…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd78a87a34f66d474087a24cd73e3283 David C. Lloyd started the topic French Academics Report on University Conditions in Palestine in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/french-academics-report-on-university-conditions-in-palestine/ Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:55:46 -0400 The French organization AURDIP (Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine) has recently released the report of a delegation to Palestine of 8 academics from 5 European countries.  The full report on conditions for Palestinian scholars, teachers and students under occupation and blockade is available he…[Read more]

]]> 0 71a30c067290effe2ff805108c4c1b19 David C. Lloyd started the topic Talal Asad on academic boycott in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/talal-asad-on-academic-boycott/ Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:06:52 -0400 This brief essay by Talal Asad gives a very economical account of the rationale and necessity of academic boycott:

http://savageminds.org/2015/04/10/talal-asad-why-do-i-support-the-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-movement/

]]> 0 d15d000de1e82eb42de6a1b0e557c8fb David C. Lloyd started the topic Concrete Apartheid in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/concrete-apartheid/ Fri, 03 Apr 2015 03:16:52 -0400 For anyone who doubts the apartheid nature of the Israeli occupation, this documentation from the respected Israeli Human Rights organization B’Tselem makes for disturbing viewing and reading.  http://www.btselem.org/hebron/20150401_separation_fence_in_hebron

]]> 0 c7d16759e59b01cb989ea91b45f4ef13 David C. Lloyd started the topic Times Higher Education Report on Palestinian University Conditions in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/times-higher-education-report-on-palestinian-university-conditions/ Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:51:08 -0400 In discussions of the boycott’s potential impact on “academic freedom”, one thing that is consistently ignored is the impact of occupation and colonization on Palestinian academics and students.  This report outlines some of the conditions in which they struggle to maintain the basic functions of a university.  As it remarks, “The grim realities e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c223d95011c918e0d618e7fc41971be1 David C. Lloyd started the topic Ethnic Studies Division EC Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/ethnic-studies-division-endorses-the-boycptt-resolution/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 03:55:48 -0400 Joining the Executive Committees of the West Asian Literatures Discussion Group, the Arabic Literature Division’s , and the Division on Marxism, Literature, and Society, the MLA’s Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Executive Committee has voted to support the resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. MLA Members for J…[Read more]

]]> 0 28064df61ef930e69a43a1a9dbb09c6b David C. Lloyd started the topic Arabic Literature Division’s EC endorses boycott resolution in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/arabic-literature-divisions-ec-endorses-boycott-resolution/ Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:30:12 -0500 The Arabic Literature Division’s Executive Committee has unanimously voted to endorse the resolution presented to the MLA Delegate Assembly to boycott Israeli academic and governmental institutions.

]]> 0 45c5517defb2919c906c753a57f18ee8 David C. Lloyd started the topic West Asian Literatures Discussion Group EC Endorses Academic Boycott of Israel in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/west-asian-literatures-discussion-group-ec-endorses-academic-boycott-of-israel/ Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:27:40 -0500 The Executive Committee of the West Asian Literatures Discussion Group has unanimously voted to endorse the draft resolution in favor of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

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