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The American Association of University Professors released a new position statement claiming that "when faculty members choose to support academic boycotts, they can legitimately seek to protect and advance the academic freedom and fundamental rights of colleagues and students who are living and working under circumstances that violate that freedom and one or more of those rights." Politically motivated boycotts of entire universities, which the organization once characterized as a grave threat to academic freedom, are now seen as “legitimate tactical responses"; according to the chair of the committee that oversaw the drafting of the new statement, the AAUP's previous stance against boycotts was itself "used to squelch academic freedom." Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy for the Heritage Foundation, joins Newell to discuss what this means.

<p>The American Association of University Professors released a new position statement claiming that "when faculty members choose to support academic boycotts, they can legitimately seek to protect and advance the academic freedom and fundamental rights of colleagues and students who are living and working under circumstances that violate that freedom and one or more of those rights." Politically motivated boycotts of entire universities, which the organization once characterized as a grave threat to academic freedom, are now seen as “legitimate tactical responses"; according to the chair of the committee that oversaw the drafting of the new statement, the AAUP's previous stance against boycotts was itself "used to squelch academic freedom." Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy for the Heritage Foundation, joins Newell to discuss what this means.</p>

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