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global society, as well as Kalamazoo
College's standard of academic free-
dom, I implore the acting president to
exercise his obligation as the current
head of the institution to make a public
statement rejecting the boycott.
The fact of the matter is that
Kalamazoo offers study-abroad pro-
grams in Jerusalem and Beersheva. And
by continuing to offer these programs
in Israel, Kalamazoo is already reject-
ing the boycott; making a public state-
ment would only confirm what already
is truth. Failing to make such a state-
ment, however, would be akin to acting
as a bystander in a situation of bully-
ing, racism or sexism.
Indeed, I am proud of my college.
But, I am also proud to be a Jew and
a Zionist. I am proud to be globally
minded and a fervent proponent of
building interfaith relations. I am also
proud to be an American. But I am not
proud that my college has shirked its
commitment to intellectual freedom by

not denouncing the recent academic
boycotts of Israel. I am not proud, as
an American, that the group of scholars
and professors who teach about my
country, a country that values freedom
and liberty above all else, would deem
it "American" to embargo intellectuals
from an entire nation from enriching
the youth of this country.
In truth, this boycott has nothing to
do with the Israel-Palestinian conflict
or any of the final status issues; it has
to do with a threat to academic free-
dom. A freedom that the ASA and MLA
propose we deny to every Israeli.
I implore every signatory of the
ASA's boycott, from Anchorage to Key
West, to do some soul-searching and
meditate on the values of this country
and of scholarship, and to reflect on the
morality of the academic boycott of the
State of Israel. @

Noah Arbit of West Bloomfield is a
freshman at Kalamazoo College.

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Using the power of social media, I and
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Natalie Gray of Bloomfield Hills is a senior

at Michigan State University in East
Lansing.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN I ANN ARBOR

2013-2014

ZUBIN MEHTA, MUSIC DIRECTOR

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