I was aware of this situation of faculty supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement getting an Israeli filmmaker removed from a campus conference at Syracuse University, but had to wait for
The Atlantic to report on it.
It's one of the most outrageous examples I have seen of how the BDS movement has poisoned academia. It also proves that BDS is lying when it says it only boycotts institutions not individuals. It also reflects the so-called "silent boycott" where Israelis face discrimination below the radar even when contrary to university policy.
It involved Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan, who was going to screen his film "
The Settlers," which had been shown at the
Sundance Festival, at a joint U. Nebraska - Syracuse University conference next March, “
The Place of Religion in Film” (pdf.) Dotan also
teaches at NY University.