Erika Dreifus

“For several years now, British faculty unions have been voting in various ways to encourage members to boycott Israeli academics and universities — and ignoring anti-boycott pleas and resolutions and requests from scholarly societies, university presidents and academics from Britain, the United States and in some cases the Palestinian Authority. On Friday, the union announced an abrupt reversal: Based on legal advice, calls for the boycott will be dropped.”

Thus begins an article on today’s InsideHigherEd.com. Read the rest here.

“What more could there possibly be to say about ‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,’ the controversial new book-length version of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s provocative thesis about pro-Israel forces in America?” Luckily, Gal Beckerman does indeed have something to say, on the Columbia Journalism Review Web site.