Penn's Jeff Weintraub has created an on-line petition in support of the American Association of University Professors' condemnation of the British Association of University Teachers' boycott of the Israeli universities, Haifa and Bar-Ilan, and blacklisting of their faculty members. Mechal Sobel, one of Cliopatria's Contributing Editors, is a faculty member at Haifa. I have signed the petition and urge others to consider doing so. Robert Abzug, Joyce Appleby, Stanley Aronowitz, Omer Bartov, Gail Bederman, David Beito, Robert Bellah, Peter Berkowitz, David Bernstein, Michael Berube, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Ian Buruma, Oscar Chamberlain, Juan Cole, David Brion Davis, Morris Dickstein, Sherman Dorn, Jonathan Dresner, Ellen Carol DuBois, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Henry Farrell, John Lewis Gaddis, Herbert Gans, Norm Geras, Todd Gitlin, Nathan Glazer, Steven Horwitz, KC Johnson, Tony Judt, Ira Katznelson, Michael Kazin, Margaret L. King, Harvey Klehr, Mark A. R. Kleiman, Jacob T. Levy, Deborah Lipstadt, Charles Maier, Elaine Tyler May, Joanne Meyerowitz, Richard Rorty, Roy Rosenzweig, Vicki Ruiz, Hugo Schwyzer, Christine Stansell, Michael Walzer, Jon Wiener, Leon Wieseltier, and Alan Wolfe are among the prominent academics who have already signed the petition. See also: AAUP, Juan Cole at Informed Comment, Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber, David Velleman at Left2Right, Steve Horwitz at Liberty & Power, Hugo Schwyzer, and Sharon Howard and KC Johnson at Cliopatria.

Jonathan Dresner - 5/11/2005

Definitely. We must have checked it almost simultaneously, because I'm signer 559....

Oscar Chamberlain - 5/11/2005

As of this morning, roughly 8:25 CDT, there were 1014 signatures on the on-line petition. It may be picking up steam, because there were under 600 when I checked last night.