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I hope you can understand that the funding minutiae of journal subs are not foremost on the minds of the Palestinian civil society activists who put out the call to which the ASA resolution is responding.

We can nitpick, or we can attempt to chart a strategy, however imperfect.

Tomorrow (4/14)!

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...genocide and settler colonialism. If you are not with us, that's fine – you're welcome to make any number of excuses. But if you are interested in joining that movement, why not propose a way forward instead of coming up with every conceivable way to demobilize?

Once again, Israeli academics are not being targeted by this boycott; it explicitly targets Israeli institutions.

I have spent much of the past 25 years organizing against the American war machine. It sounds to me like you're not interested in building a movement. Our movement is about opposing...

Two things here. First, it’s not about autocracy but an ongoing genocide. Second, even if it were, that’s paralyzing logic. It’s akin to criticizing protests against the war in Iran unless we also mobilize against the Burmese junta and the Sudanese RSF.

Right, it was an analogy. There were other inconveniences, including potentially depressing student enrollment and our ability to hold academic conferences, that are easily as substantial. Every single strategy has potential downsides. The point is to weigh them against the benefits, no?

An important reminder: The proposed resolution is NOT a boycott of individual Israeli academics. Per our FAQs, it does not target individual academics, nor does it prevent academics working at Israeli institutions from attending the ASA's annual meeting."

FAQs 2 — S4P

I don’t think anyone involved in organizing this campaign would oppose that suggestion. Organize it, and you’ll surely have support from the organizers.

Many of the questions posed in this thread are addressed at length here: www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/faqs

Wouldn’t prohibiting Israeli researchers from publishing in these journals constitute precisely your gripe in the OP?

It would be akin to arguing that marches are bad because they might obstruct traffic and make someone late for work, or that boycotting the state of NC in the wake of the bathroom bill might adversely affect North Carolinians (I taught there at the time but still advocated that strategy).

Absolutely it would impact individuals, but that’s a very different claim from the OP, which suggested that individuals rather than institutions were being targeted here.

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Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

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FAQs 2 — S4P

Source: www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/faqs

I’m wondering if your post is in reference to the proposed ASA resolution, which is explicit that it is targeting Israeli institutions rather than individual scholars. The folks involved work closely w/ critical Israeli scholars — no ban is proposed.

This is from the @soc4pal.bsky.social website:

Thanks to all our authors from March! (Nazanin Shahrokni, Justin Reed, @lesja.bsky.social , Brandon Webb, Matthew Penney, Manuel Casique Herrera, and Cinzia Arruzza).

Links to all these pieces in the thread 👇🏽 🧵

I wonder what these people think reading is

Response to ASA's Letter to Membership on "ASA Policy, Member-Led Petitions, and ASA's Future" NAMES WILL NEVER BE SENT TO THE ASA WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, DATA WILL BE SUMMARIZED & SHARED PLEASE INDICATE BELOW IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HAVE YOUR NAME INCLUDED IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE ASA To memb...

S4P rejects ASA leadership's authoritarian decision to bypass its own procedures & membership engagement re: our BDS resolution.

If the resolution is not considered via existing procedures we will BOYCOTT the 2026 meeting.

SIGN ON TO JOIN US:

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Wait until they read Durkheim

On Thursday, Florida's Board of Governors removed sociology from the general education curriculum of every university in the state. Chancellor Ray Rodrigues attacked the @asanews.bsky.social as illegitimate.

On behalf of sociologists everywhere, I respond to them in today's @miamiherald.com:

Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught

Read the article and tell me: did anyone interviewed make that claim? Is any evidence for that claim provided?

Wildest to me about FL removing sociology from gen ed is their rationale: citing a Guardian article, Chancellor Rodrigues claims faculty are willfully subverting the law.

But no one quoted makes that claim. Did he really only read the headline, which wasn't written by faculty in any case?