The matter is a moral question because Summers contends that it is anti-Semitic to challenge the “legitimacy of Israel as a state.” He calls the BDS movement a form of anti-Jewish persecution:
American academic community is being implicated in uniquely persecuting the world’s only Jewish state for sins that even on the least sympathetic reading are small compared to those of many other nations.
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