Cockroaches Being Dragged Into the Light: ASA has its 401(C)3 Tax Exemption Challenged

William A Jacobsen at Legal Insurrection is dragging the ASA into tax court after their antisemitic announcement in December:

When the National Council of the American Studies Association endorsed the academic boycott of Israel in early December, and put the boycott Resolution to a quick membership vote, I wondered how the ASA National Council could do such a thing not just on the merits, but because the boycott put ASA’s tax-exempt status at risk.

I stated my intention of filing a challenge to that tax-exempt status should the Resolution pass and the academic boycott go into effect.

The ASA membership approved the boycott Resolution with less than a quarter of the total membership voting for it (there was such low turnout, that was enough).

The immediate backlash from many universities is reassuring; there is still some semblance of sanity. Either the ASA will back down and behave itself or it will stand by an outrageous position which degrades its relevance. Either way it has stomped on its own integrity.