It is not the students that are the problem, but rather the faculty. Students come and go but faculty are fixtures on campus who shape the environment, the curriculum, and the hiring decisions of their departments.

Efforts by a small number of organizations in Europe and the US to boycott Israel continue to fail as members realize there is little to no substance to the anti-Semitic claims being made.

Well-known Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker again voiced his opposition to academic boycotts of Israel last week, as two groups of anthropologists geared up campaigns to defeat the boycott resolution before the American Anthropological Association, to be voted on beginning April 15.

British doctors have submitted a request to the World Medical Association to have the Israel Medical Association expelled.

Former Harvard President Larry Summers slammed recent initiatives by US academic associations to boycott Israeli universities and academics.

Israeli heads of universities sent a letter to the American Anthropological Association urging it to drop an "absurd" and harmful resolution to boycott Israeli academics.

Supposedly "advancing human understanding," but actually failing to do so in reality, the AAA has voted to promote a resolution calling for the boycott of Israeli institutions.