Statement by NYU Spokesperson John Beckman

"NYU and the NYU School of Law are troubled and disappointed by the student-led Review of Law and Social Change's (RLSC) call for an academic boycott of Israeli universities and academics. Academic boycotts, such as the one proclaimed by the RLSC, are antithetical to the precepts of academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas. For this reason, as a matter of policy, NYU rejects, as it has for many years, calls for academic boycotts of Israel, and the University likewise rejects calls to close its NYU Tel Aviv program, to which it remains fully committed."