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Cornell law professor challenges academic group’s tax-exempt status over Israel boycott

By Charles Hoskinson

Published January 7, 2014 5:00am ET

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Cornell law professor challenges academic group’s tax-exempt status over Israel boycott — Universities across the country are distancing themselves not just from American Studies Association's boycott of Israeli academics, but from the ASA itself. (Photo: Thinkstock) | Robert Byron

American Studies Association members who voted on Dec. 16 to boycott Israeli academics probably didn’t expect that decision to boomerang so painfully against them.

It has already brought uncomfortable scrutiny to how far the ASA has strayed from its academic mission and become a home for tenured radicals to vent their political grievances under the guise of “scholarship.”

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