Once again, the specter of the suppression of academic freedom has been invoked in what is now becoming an organized campaign to counter the growing global movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel, and the academic and cultural boycott in particular. This time, a number of American, European, and Israeli Nobel laureates have been enlisted in the campaign, in the hope that their plea to defend “academic freedom” will stem the tide of this ever-expanding movement.
Read the full statement: https://bdsmovement.net/news/tired-%E2%80%9Cacademic-freedom%E2%80%9D-argument-pacbi-response-nobel-laureates%E2%80%99-attack-academic-boycott
Read the laureates attack