NYU President Linda G. Mills and Interim Provost Georgina Dopico on the Academic Boycott of Israel Endorsed by the American Anthropological Association

“We are opposed to and deeply disappointed by the AAA’s recent resolution calling for an academic boycott of Israel. By their very nature, academic boycotts contravene the concept of the free exchange of ideas, a key tenet of academic freedom. NYU has long and consistently objected to academic boycotts (here and here, for example) for just these reasons. “It is regrettable that the AAA, a scholarly organization meant to promote the advancement of knowledge throughout the discipline, an organization that has reaffirmed its commitment to academic freedom, has taken a step seemingly so at odds with those objectives. “We urge them to reconsider.”