Rex Murphy Blasts BDS-Supporting American Profs for Betraying the "Scholar's Mission"

He writes:

The champions of this academic quarantine offer as their rationale the fact that “Israeli institutions of higher learning are a party to Israeli state policies that violate human rights and negatively impact the working conditions of Palestinian scholars and students.” Have these learned folk considered what such a stand reveals? Here we have a “studies” association — one that purports to represent 5,000 experts on American culture and history — that seeks to amputate all connection with thousands of other scholars. Not because of the content of those scholars’ ideas, their research, their intelligence, or their field of study. But because they are Israelis. Or teaching and researching in Israel. Why it’s a form of intellectual — what label applies? — ah, yes, “apartheid.”

No, no, Rex. These intellectuals with hearts so pure loathe the Zionists' "apartheid."  

Also the Zionists.

Murphy, of course, well knows this, opening his piece with the perfect quote, by William Butler Yeats. Yeats wrote: "An intellectual hatred is the worst." So true, but I'd rank the religion-based, ideologically-driven hatred of Islamists right up there with it.

Update: NYU Prof to Head ASA, Supports Israel Boycott; NY Lawmakers Threaten to Withdraw State Aid