Sarah Lawrence College Prof Comes Under Fire From BDS Activists for Supporting Israel

Sarah Lawrence College Prof Comes Under Fire From BDS Activists for Supporting Israel

Professor Samuel J. Abrams teaches politics at the school and the administration failed to defend him on this. Just amazing.

He writes at the Washington Examiner:

Even college faculty are scared to stand up against cancel culture

Academic boycotts have become a popular fad among collegiate faculty. The American Association of University Professors just endorsed boycotts, noting that these actions “can be considered legitimate tactical responses to conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education.”

Students, taking the cues from faculty, have followed suit.

Recently, I found myself a target of their ire when student groups calling themselves the “Divestment Coalition” announced a boycott of my classes at Sarah Lawrence College.

The reason for the boycott? My support of Israel’s right to exist and defend itself in response to the most brutal attack on Jewish life since the Holocaust.

The group went beyond just calling for a boycott. They disrupted my class session during our course-shopping period, intimidated potential students by sending them direct, libelous messages about me, and pressured them to drop my classes. In a small school such as Sarah Lawrence, peer pressure from groups can be intense and almost impossible to resist as a student.

The school’s administration has said nothing publicly about the overt antisemitic attacks on me, and it has failed to chastise students for disrupting the course selection process. In doing so, the school administration sent a message to the community that this behavior is tolerated on campus.

This is hardly surprising given the dangerous and hate-filled environment toward Jews the administration has allowed to develop over the past decade, which was alarmingly detailed in a Title VI complaint over the school’s “persistent and pervasive” antisemitism.

Antisemitism on campus sadly is nothing new. Far more disappointing, however, is the reaction from my fellow faculty members — only one faculty member has reached out to me since the disruption.

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