California Chancellors make a wise move in condemning discrimination toward Israel

Washington Examiner:

In a historic first for the University of California system, all ten chancellors have signed on to a joint statement condemning any faculty attempts to implement any type of academic boycott of Israel on any UC campus.

“As chancellors of the University of California campuses, we write to reaffirm our long- standing opposition to an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions and/or individual scholars. Our commitment to continued engagement and partnership with Israeli, as well as Palestinian colleagues, colleges, and universities is unwavering,” wrote the chancellors.

Additionally, the chancellors also expressed their grave concerns about how the existence of such a boycott could serve to infringe upon the academic freedom normally expected by students and faculty, specifically as to how the boycott might unfairly influence the current discourse between supporters of Israel and Palestine on the UC campus:
We believe a boycott of this sort poses a direct and serious threat to the academic freedom of our students and faculty, as well as the unfettered exchange of ideas and perspectives on our campuses, including debate and discourse regarding conflicts in the Middle East.

While college campuses have long harbored academic criticism of Israel, the past few years have seen a resurgence of boycott efforts directed toward the Holy Land, specifically toward programs that provide Jewish students the opportunity to study abroad in Israel for a semester.
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The Chancellors were right.  The so-called BDS movement is an anti-semantic attempt against the Jewish state.  It has no place in American education.