MLA Statement on Unrestricted Travel to Pursue Education
The Executive Council approved the following statement in October 2018.
The Modern Language Association of America asserts its support for the right of Lara Alqasem to enter Israel to pursue her degree at Hebrew University. We point to the 2013 MLA Statement on the Importance of Unrestricted Travel for Scholarly Exchange, in particular to the sentence “We believe that as a scholarly society, we have a positive obligation to defend the freedom of scholars and artists to travel across national borders,” and we declare that we also defend the freedom of students to travel across national borders to pursue education.