<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3897" dir="ltr">Bérubé held forth around here until 10 or 15 years ago; it would have been fun if he were here during the Salaita affair:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3906"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3907"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3908">The Delegate Assembly then passed an “emergency” resolution proposed by Michael Bérubé, an ex-MLA president who was one of the opponents of the BDS resolution. Bérubé’s resolution denounced the incoming Trump administration and its expected threats to academic freedom.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3898">This resolution was a catalogue of boilerplate flummery regarding various “freedoms” (speech, political and religious belief, etc.) of concern to academics, all couched in the most anodyne terms, the kind of stuff one expects in a low-gear civics class.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3899">The speeches lauding this resolution came in the main from the self-same Zionists who earlier had opposed a resolution in support of Palestinian academic freedom!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3900" dir="ltr">By this time, I had enough of their puke-inducing hypocrisy, and left the hall before the vote was taken.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3964" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3970" dir="ltr"><a class="enhancr2_e9cdb26f-51e5-3ef5-8503-868c5d6a0e56" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_3993" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/09/resolutions-advocating-a-boycott-of-israel/">Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_4069"><br></div><div class="yahoo-link-enhancr-card ymail-preserve-class ymail-preserve-style" id="enhancr2_e9cdb26f-51e5-3ef5-8503-868c5d6a0e56" style="max-width:400px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" contenteditable="false" data-size="medium" data-type="yenhancr" data-category="article" data-embed-url="" data-url="http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/09/resolutions-advocating-a-boycott-of-israel/"> <a class="yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484062541415_4084" style="text-decoration:none !important; 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