Scholars question idea that one country should be “singled out.”

Inside Higher Ed reports.

Historians Reject Measure Criticizing Israel

ATLANTA — Members of the American Historical Association on Saturday voted down, 111 to 51, a resolution “upholding the rights of Palestinian faculty and students to pursue their education and research freely” and committing the AHA to “monitoring Israeli actions restricting the right to education in the occupied Palestinian territories,” among other points. The vote came at the association’s annual meeting here.

The association avoided voting on two similar anti-Israel resolutions last year because they were submitted after a key deadline.

This year’s resolution was submitted on time, and Saturday’s vote followed an increasingly heated but civil debate over several alleged factual errors and omissions within the resolution itself, such as the assertion that the Israeli military “routinely invades campuses” in the Palestinian territories, and the resolution’s failure to mention unreliable exit and entry points, such as Egypt’s Rafah Gate, for Palestinian students and scholars that are controlled by countries other than Israel.