Sad to see my university hasn’t denounce it yet, I go to University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Let me know what I can do to help. Not sure how to write a formal email to them.

I am just outside Peter Roskam’s district so I sent Randy Hultgren a copy of the letter through his web site.

My representative is (unfortunately) the odious Bobby Rush. I won’t hold my breath on this one. I will, however, send an email. Perhaps the horse will learn to sing…

Here is a copy of the letter I sent to Rep. Rush.

To those of you who write, my experience with these letters is simple: SHORT and RESPECTFUL. The aide who reads these (yes, aide) simply counts the number of letters and what side each is on for each matter. They rarely read them. When they do read them, an angry, disrespectful letter is tossed without further comment. They don’t have the time and frankly all you’ll do is amuse them as they matter ‘asshole’ under their breath and click ‘delete’. A respectful letter might actually find its way to the Representative. You never know.

You’re not trying to vent your spleen here, you’re trying to persuade. Keep that in mind.

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my letter
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Dear Congressman Rush,

As a constituent of your district and a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, I write to ask your support and signature to a letter being sponsored by the Honorable Reps. Roskam, Collins, Deutch, and Schneider to the American Studies Association, denouncing their recent, terrible effort to boycott Israeli academics and prevent them from engaging with academics around our country.

Such a boycott is a blatant disregard for freedom and particularly academic freedom. Universities, such as my own, foster, encourage, and inspire constructive dialogue and original thought. This boycott undermines academic freedom by prohibiting educational and cultural exchanges with Israeli universities. It single out Israelis (who of course are not perfect) while disregarding the more odious and egregious conduct of other countries in the world such as North Korea, Pakistan, and Syria. It is nothing more than thinly-veiled anti-Semitism and bigotry.

Academic freedom is precious, and once eroded the tendency is for it to disappear. It is part of our fundamental civil discourse and part of our fundamental rights to think, speak and associate. Such hard-won freedoms should not be set aside.

I hope you will join your colleagues in the House in signing this letter and showing the world that bigotry, whatever its form, will not be tolerated.

I thank you for your consideration and for reading this letter.

Very truly yours

Steve White, MD
Professor of Medicine
The University of Chicago

Just emailed Darrel Issa. Also thanked him for his continuing investigations of Benghazi and the IRS (he’s doing the work the MSM won’t).

I don’t waste the typing since I have to deal with Mike Michaud (D-loser) and southern part of state is Pingree (D-thief) so no sense even trying.

Sent mine last week.