Yale Faculty Weigh in on Israel Boycotts
Yale faculty members Edward Kaplan, Evan Morris, and Roya Hakakian discuss how Israel is treated on campus, the hypocrisy of academic boycotts of Israel, and their recent trip to the country.
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“Barely 18 minutes long, this well edited short film documents the combined sorrow and resilience of Arab, Druze, and Jewish students and faculty in Israel as they lived through the effects of 10/7/23. With so many horrific stories to learn about, it is easy to miss the fact that Israeli higher education lost many members of its community that day. Appallingly, efforts to rekindle academic boycotts of Israeli universities were renewed before the academic community could finish burying its dead. If you care about justice and academic freedom, watch Indivisible.”
“What a terrific and essential short film, about the academy both here and in Israel post October 7. Dropping truth bombs, refuting anti-Israel libels disseminated by campus anti-Israelists, revealing the resilience of Israeli academics, the film packs more into its 18 minutes than one would think possible — but also invites further discussion. It would be terrific to show Indivisible on campuses around the country — accompanied by the filmmakers to facilitate the discussion. Despite the bleakness of the Hamas massacre and wide-scale academic affirmation of it, the film also presents a hopeful vision — of peace, of coexistence — that could only be realized in Israel.”
Cary Nelson
Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Emeritus at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Former President of AAUP | Author of “Mindless?” and “The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel”
Andrew Pessin
Founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism | Author of “Nevergreen,” a novel of campus cancel culture
“Thanks to this film, we get to see what is really going on. Science requires collaboration, and that collaboration is exactly what Israelis have and work toward in their own institutions. Arabs, Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze work together in Israel’s hospitals. Academic boycotts thwart the goals of science; they harm individual professors but also those who stand to benefit from lifesaving technologies developed in Israel. This short film is an eye-opener. As a Yale grad, I am proud of the academics who took the trip and made this film possible.”
L. Rachel Lerman
First Amendment Lawyer | Vice Chair and Director, Appeals & Critical Motions at The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
