For Opposing a Boycott of Israel, a Professor Is Charged with Religious Discrimination

Doron Ben-Atar, a professor of American Studies at Fordham University, called on his department to protest the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel. In response, the university accused him of a Title-IX violation for religious discrimination and conducted a Soviet-style investigation. Ben-Atar, who was eventually cleared, sums up his experience thus: