Which is what you’d expect from academia.
Via Free Beacon:
The leaked comments have spurred accusations of anti-Semitism in the MLA’s ranks and prompted outrage among Jewish leaders who say that this type of discourse is motivated by a deep seated bias against Jewish people and the state of Israel.
The charges of anti-Semitism were underscored by a controversial Facebook posting by one of the professors involved in the debate questioning the deaths of 6 million Jewish people in the Holocaust.
Other professors involved in the debate referred to colleagues who oppose the boycott measure as “Zionist attack dogs” and claimed that they “control and twist the media.” […]
With the June 1 deadline to vote on the measure approaching, debate about it appears to have spiraled out of control. Recent comments found on the internal MLA listserv show that some supporters of the resolution have engaged in what human rights scholars described as anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Professor Elizabeth Ordonez, a retired Spanish professor from Metropolitan State University in Denver, accused “Zionist attack dogs” of pressuring the resolution’s supporters.
“As on the broader political scene, moves to seek justice and opportunity for Palestinians (or to remove obstacles to achieving those goals) are countered by Zionist attack dogs,” Ordonez wrote in a March 22 post on the listserv. “When the Zionist lobby railroads its way through Congress, universities, and civil society no request is made for equal time for the other side.”
Ordonez, who refers to controversial Palestinian academic Edward Said as “our beloved late leader,” went on to urge her colleagues to vote “yes” on the boycott measure. […]
“There are some out there who have shown intolerance, who control and twist the media, who silence the truth, who flex their muscle, who organize unfair and biased campaign, who have even pushed the U.S. to wars for Israel’s sake, and who have worked their money or influence to destroy academics or students who express solidarity with the Palestinian cause or any criticism of what should be, to any fair human, an unbearable situation that needs to be rectified,” Ra’ad wrote.
However, one professor in particular, Alessio Lerro of Temple University in Philadelphia, flatly accused “Jewish scholars” of manipulating academia, a comment that has sparked charges of anti-Semitism in the MLA debate.
“It is time that Zionists are asked to finally account for their support to the illegal occupation of Palestine since 1967,” Lerro wrote. “This resolution rightly targets only Israel given the humongous influence that Jewish scholars have in the decision making process of Academia in general.”