Middle East studies in the News

Middle Eastern Studies Association Defends Israeli Scholar [on Neve Gordon]

Inside Higher Ed
August 28, 2009

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/28/qt/middle_eastern_studies_association_defends_israeli_scholar

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8185

The Middle East Studies Association is weighing in on the case of Neve Gordon, who teaches at Israel's Ben-Gurion University and who has set off a debate in his country over his op-ed in the Los Angeles Times calling for a boycott of Israel. Many Israeli leaders -- including some at his university -- have suggested that he had no right to publish the essay.

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