The American Studies Association (ASA), allegedly a scholarly association-- ("our nation's oldest (1951) and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history,") has abandoned its scholarly pursuits to boycott Israel, and banned Israel's university representatives participation in a forthcoming academic conference at a California hotel/resort. The chain subsequently declined. Why would a once-respectable organization depart from its stated mission, and take on a jihadist agenda? Answer: moral bankruptcy-- clearly and definitively anti-Semitic, they have chosen Marxism and Islamism over democracy, virtue, and integrity.
