Chronicle Of Higher Education July 24

Juan Cole 07/17/2002

The Chronicle of Higher Education

July 24, 2002 [Online Edn. July 16]

By JUAN COLE

OPINION: THE CALL for an academic boycott of Israel is

misguided, writes Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Many Israeli academics

support the struggling peace movement and should not be

punished for the actions of a government they largely oppose,

he argues.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page