This week in power: Academic boycott and Podhoretz stormoff

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

Boycott blowback
The announcment of a ” target=”_blank”>asked Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine. “Condemning the ASA’s move as an exercise in double standards and an assault on academic freedom, by contrast, doesn’t require challenging Israeli behavior at all. Which, for mainstream American Jewish organizations, may be precisely its appeal,” ” target=”_blank”>he said, ” target=”_blank”>wrote Marc Tracy at The New Republic. “This means fairly criticizing Israeli government policies, tolerating anti-Zionist groups at campus Hillels, and even withstanding ugly boos at a panel stacked against you.”