The University of Massachusetts Amherst, a highly ranked public school, is reviewing an upcoming conference that it plans to host in November after learning that the organizer excludes scholars who receive funding from Israeli institutions.

“The university has the matter under review,” Emily Gest, associate vice chancellor for news and media relations at the university, told JNS.

“The University of Massachusetts fundamentally opposes academic boycotts of any kind, including the BDS movement,” Gest said, referring to the movement to boycott Israel.

The Coalition of Women in German, a more than 50-year-old group based at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, which doesn’t state the size of its membership, is scheduled to hold a conference at UMass Amherst from Nov. 6 to Nov. 9.

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