A Syracuse University professor withdrew an invitation to a New York University professor, who is Israeli, to present his film at an academic conference, saying that his nationality would upset colleagues who favor a boycott of Israeli academe. The university, after its professor's action became public, on Friday sought to distance itself from the rescinded invitation -- and said that it would invite the Israeli professor/filmmaker to visit the campus at another time. Syracuse, as a matter of university policy, opposes the movement to boycott Israeli higher education. And the university's anti-bias policies explicitly bar discrimination based on citizenship or national origin. But the incident illustrates that a university can have such policies and have its professors violate them by discriminating against Israelis for being Israelis.

September 6, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed