(Algemeiner) Shiri Moshe - Two resolutions targeting Israel failed to pass at the American Historical Association's annual meeting in New York on Sunday. AHA members previously voted against similar resolutions in 2015 and 2016. Opposition to this year's resolutions was spearheaded by the Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) which called the resolutions "part of a larger politically motivated campaign...across the scholarly associations to target Israel alone." AAF founding member David Greenberg, a professor at Rutgers University, said the vote made clear that "most practicing historians think this is not what the AHA should be spending its time doing."
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