“ACADEMIC FREEDOM” ORIGINATED AS A LEFTY COVER TACTIC: Anti-Israel agenda motivated professors to abandon academic freedom principles: While the AAUP claims that its recent embrace of academic boycotts is not intended to target Israel, make no mistake, it is clearly motivated by an anti-Israel ideology and, to some, smacks of antisemitism. The AAUP appeared as an effort to protect lefty professors from criticism. It wasn’t meant to protect others, except as a matter of political cover.