California State Assembly Seeks to Stifle Debate on Israel

Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies, August 30, 2012.
Republished by Huffington Post,Transnational.org et al.
The California State Assembly has just passed a bipartisan resolution (HR 35) by voice vote which constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom and the rights of students and faculty to raise awareness about human rights abuses by U.S.-backed governments. While purporting to put the legislature on record in opposition of anti-Semitism on state university campuses, it defines anti-Semitism so widely as to include legitimate political activities in opposition to Israeli government policies.