(Daily Telegraph - UK) - Worldwide protests have erupted in the wake of the suspension of two scholars from international journals because they are Israeli. Prof. Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard, president of the Modern Language Association of America, said that singling out a particular group "for collective punishment violates the essential spirit of scholarly freedom and the pursuit of truth." Francis Robinson, a professor of history at London University, said: "This sounds dreadful. It runs counter to the very principles of academic freedom."
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