The American Studies Association is promoting an academic boycott of Israel (http://www.theasa.net/what_does_the_academic_boycott_mean_for_the_asa/), and has also denounced "American Imperialism" while mocking the 9/11 attacks. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/6492#.VHNz0Ml4X4Y goes into further detail.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/american-studies-association-celebrated-terrorism-mocked-911/ elaborates,
The United States of Banana begins by mocking the attacks of September 11 in the most gruesome way possible by featuring a businessman falling from the sky.
“It’s the end of the world. I was excited by the whole situation,” Giannina Braschi’s anti-American novel begins. “No more fear of being fired—for typos or tardiness—digressions or recessions—and what a way of being fired—bursting into flames—without two weeks notice.”
..."When the government proclaims war against terrorism it is proclaiming war against the awakening of the masses.”
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