Should College Professors Who Signed BDS Pledges Be Teaching Classes About Israel?

North Carolina State University. Photo: Wiki Commons.

Community members have reached out to express concerns regarding the North Carolina State University course, “History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” which is scheduled to be taught by Kristen Alff this spring. Classes begin Jan. 12.

Alff signed Palestine and Praxis: Open Letter and Call to Action —using her “NC State University” credentials — which characterized Israel as a “settler colonial state.”

The letter affirmed...