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(JTA) – An association for American anthropologists has voted to formally boycott Israeli academic institutions, seven years after shutting down a
The boycott applies only to formal collaborations with the association itself, and it does not apply to individual Israeli academics.
About seven in 10 of the 37 percent of members who voted backed the resolution. A similar measure in 2016, with half of AAA members voting, failed. The members of the American Anthropological Association have endorsed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. An all-member referendum took place from June 15 to July 14, and the results were announced today.
A major academic group passes a resolution calling Israel an “apartheid regime.”
Decision, voted down 7 years ago, is adopted with 70% majority, but does not apply to individual Israeli academics