International academic group cancels Jerusalem event due to Israel's West Bank policy

GLOW Linguistics, an international organization, was scheduled to hold its annual conference in Israel in 2024, but decided last week to move the meeting to another country after members applied pressure to cancel the event partially due to Israel's West Bank policy. The organization’s board decided in 2021 to hold the conference at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, after two thirds of members voted to approve it. But in May 2022, 25 GLOW members sent the board a letter asking it to reconsider...