31 cosponsors.
Refers to the organization called Coordination of Scientists for a Just Peace in the Near East (`Coordination des Scientifiques pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient') and 700 other European signatories to the call. It resolves:
(1) attempts to boycott Israeli scholars will neither advance truth nor achieve peace;
(2) attempts to treat Israeli scholars as pariahs cannot fail to recall horrifying precedents such as the Nazi effort to `purify' German universities (make them `Judenrein') by expelling Jewish students and faculty and the Stalinist slaughter of Yiddish intellectuals; and
(3) scholars in the United States and abroad are to be commended for their prompt and resolute defense of their Israeli colleagues and for their commitment to the free exchange of ideas.
See also: similar measure S. Res. 336 on 10/8/02.