BS Dealt Major Blow by yet another Academic Group

The American Historical Association (AHA) declined to address two anti-Israel motions in the association's annual meeting to be held in New York this week. The resolutions, prompted and endorsed by the BS movement, were kept off the agenda with a majority vote of 144 to 54. The Jerusalem Post reports:

The American Historical Association, a scholarly group, declined to put two resolutions critical of Israel to a vote at its annual meeting in New York over the weekend, one year after the American Studies Association joined an academic boycott of Israel.

The motions were kept off the agenda by a vote of 144 to 54.

Daniel Pipes, a politically conservative Middle East scholar and a former AHA member, said that he was “particularly delighted to discern signs of political maturity among the ranks of historians,” stating that “the AHA’s nearly 3-to-1 rejection of the two anti-Israel resolutions confirms the surprisingly sensible and centrist voting on this issue at major academic associations.”

There was no mention of incitement on Palestinian campuses in the resolutions.

Last year, hundreds of masked protesters marched through Al-Quds University’s campus wearing black ski masks and carrying replicas of rockets, according to photos posted on the website of independent journalist Tom Gross and on the Facebook page of the Islamic Bloc of Al-Quds University student group, which is associated with Hamas.

Such a sincere effort failed, maybe the BS would now find some time to promote motions against other countries; North Korea would be a good start.