21/03/2026
On March 12, 2026 ASA President Shelley Correll and ASA Executive Director Heather Washington sent an email to all ASA members informing all of us that they were refusing to put to a vote a member resolution that Sociologists for Palestine submitted in full compliance with ASA bylaws. The resolution called for ASA to endorse an institutional boycott of Israeli academic institutions, in accordance with the broader movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
Regardless of one’s position on BDS, ASA members can recognize that the ASA leadership’s move undermines ASA’s democratic functioning. It is ASA members, through our almost-entirely unpaid labor, who make the organization run, and we should be able to make decisions collectively as the organization representing US sociologists.
If the ASA leadership continues to refuse to put the member resolution to a vote, then Sociologists for Palestine is calling on ASA members to boycott the 2026 Annual Meeting in New York. Click here to sign on to the boycott pledge: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScelPIKq8x8pdxxZOrXU3IjDhbv9cZup6xEnLqp6_EwnGe5Ew/viewform
For our full response to the ASA leadership’s message, and an FAQ on the boycott pledge, visit our website, www.sociologistsforpalestine.org .
