Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities

Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He is the author of Capitalism and Extinction (PM Press, 2015), The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature (2013) and Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (Michigan, 2007), and co-editor of three essay collections: Democracy, the State, and the Struggle for Global Justice (Routledge, 2009); Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (Michigan, 2009); and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (Duke, 2007). He is former editor of Social Text Online and of the AAUP's Journal of Academic Freedom.

Bill V. Mullen is Professor of American Studies and English at Purdue University. He is a member of the Advisory Board for USACBI (United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) and faculty advisor for Purdue Students for Justice in Palestine. In 2012 he was a member of a USACBI delegation to Palestine. He is the author of Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution, Afro-Orientalism, and Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946. His writing on Palestine and academic boycott has appeared in Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Social Text and International Socialist Review. He lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.