{"id":102202,"date":"2013-12-31T15:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/israel-boycott-courageous-act-analyst\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:29:48","slug":"israel-boycott-courageous-act-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/israel-boycott-courageous-act-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel boycott &#8216;courageous act&#8217;: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The American Studies Association\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s decision to boycott Israeli institutions for helping Tel Aviv commit crimes against Palestinians is a courageous act, a political analyst says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cIt\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a very courageous act by the ASA,\u201d Stephen Lendman said in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday. \u00c5\u201cNew York legislators want to punish them by withholding funding to these organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cTo expose its [Israel] crimes, to expose institutions connected to them is a noble act,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the ASA said it boycotted academic institutions in protest to Israel\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s brutal treatment of Palestinians and the involvement of Israeli universities in supporting such policies.<\/p>\n<p>Two thirds of the 1,252 members of the organization who participated in the vote approved the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Two New York legislators, State Sen. Jeff Klein and Assemblyman Dov Hikind said they want to cut off state aid to universities affiliated with the ASA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s boycott movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThe ASA did a very very courageous thing. It\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a very large organization. It\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s the largest of its kind in America. Its members voted overwhelmingly to do this and it did it for the most obvious reasons for the high crimes that Israel has committed for so many years,\u201d Lendman said.<\/p>\n<p>The American Studies Association is a professional group of about 4,000 scholars who study US history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The group has been debating a boycott since 2006 and put the matter to a vote after its leadership endorsed the idea in early December.<\/p>\n<p>AGB\/AGB<\/p>\n<p>With permission<br \/>\nSource: <a title=\"Israel boycott 'courageous act': Analyst\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/12\/31\/342992\/israel-boycott-courageous-act-analyst\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Studies Association\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s decision to boycott Israeli institutions for helping Tel Aviv commit crimes against Palestinians is a courageous act, a political analyst says. \u00c5\u201cIt\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a very courageous act by the ASA,\u201d Stephen Lendman said in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday. \u00c5\u201cNew York legislators want to punish them by withholding funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}