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“An academic boycott of Israeli institutions should be called out for what it is,” Cary Nelson declares in the first in-depth, full-length study of the scholactivism behind the BDS movement to disinvite Israel from the family of nations. And what his research reveals, he concludes, is nothing less than “a selective anti-faculty, anti-research, and anti-student agenda,” with consequences not only for Jewish faculty and students but for the academy at large (80). In other words, while the Jewish state is the stated target, the university as a whole is collateral damage. While so selective a boycott in theory would appear …