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GUEST: Simona Sharoni, is a feminist scholar and activist and a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and co-founder of Feminists for Justice in/for Palestine.

The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), in a landslide vote of 90% just decided to back the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions or BDS movement against Israeli oppression of Palestinians. A resolution drafted by Feminists for Justice in/for Palestine was backed by more than 600 NWSA scholars.

The vote comes within days of the American Anthropological Association adopting a similar resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel. That too was a landslide vote by the association’s members.