One hundred and forty-eight US college professors signed a letter objecting to an advertisement in The New York Times by notorious racist David Horowitz naming indvidual faculty members at several US colleges and accusing them of inciting murder of Jewish children, and likening the movement to boycott Israel (BDS) to Nazism.

The Times, however, failed to print it. Here is the letter and the full list of signatories:

Faculty letter to The New York Times:

To the Editor:

We are professors who teach in universities across this country. We are appalled at the advertisement by the David Horowitz Freedom Center (Op-Ed page, April 24, 2012) which compares the international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS) to the Holocaust and ancient blood libels. It also asks that professors who support it be “publicly shamed and condemned.” It grossly distorts the statements of such professors, which are publicly available online and can be verified.

The Horowitz Center’s advertisement seeks to shut down informed debate. Free speech and thought was a crucial right at stake in 1930s Germany and it remains so today. The discussion that took place at the University of Pennsylvania did not use any objectionable language, and included many Jewish participants, including rabbis.

Your readers can hear for themselves what was said at www.PennBDS.org. It is Horowitz who uses the language of hatred and bigotry. Even those of us who do not support BDS are alarmed at your carrying an advertisement that misinforms and names individuals who do not have the money that Horowtiz has to defend themselves through his chosen medium.

We hope you will publish this letter to make this point.

Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota Amy Lang, Syracuse University Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University Anjali Arondekar, University of California, Santa Cruz Ann Pellegrini, NYU Antonio Feros, University of Pennsylvania Boris Gasparov, Columbia University Brian Boyd, Columbia University Bruce Robbins, Columbia University Cesare Cesarino, University of Minnesota Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse University Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania David Delgado Shorter, UCLA David Eng, University of Pennsylvania David Kazanjian University of Pennsylvania David Lloyd, University of Southern California David Pellow, University of Minnesota David Shorter, UCLA Elizabeth Bernstein, Columbia University Ellen Kennedy, University of Pennsylvania Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside Gary Fields, University of California, San Diego Gillian Hart, University of California, Berkeley Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania Homay King, Bryn Mawr College Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara Indrani Chatterjee, Rutgers University James English, University of Pennsylvania James Schamus, Columbia University Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University Jean Howard, Columbia University Jean Lave, University of California, Berkeley Jennifer Wenzel, University of Michigan Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota Jim Holstun, SUNY, Buffalo Joel Beinin, Stanford University Joel Wainwright, Ohio State University John Mowitt, University of Minnesota Joseph Slaughter, Cornell University Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania Josie Saldaña, NYU Judith Frank, Amherst College Judith Surkis, Columbia University and the Institute for Advanced Study Kaja Silverman, University of Pennsylvania Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School Kathleen A. McHugh, UCLA Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania Keya Ganguly University of Minnesota Lucy San Pablo Burns, UCLA Manan Desai, Syracuse University Margo Todd, University of Pennsylvania Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University Mark Levine, University of California, Irvine Max Cavitch, University of Pennsylvania Mayanthi L. Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michelle Clayton, UCLA Najam Haider, Barnard College Nancy Bentley , University of Pennsylvania Natalie Melas, Cornell University Nguyen-vo Thu-huong, UCLA Nikhil Pal Singh, NYU Page Fortna, Columbia University Patricia Morton, University of California, Riverside Persis Karim, San Jose State University Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University Raka Ray , University of California, Berkeley Saadia Toor, City University of New York Saba Mahmood, University of California, Berkeley Sabina Sawhney, Hofstra University Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University Shelley Feldman, Cornell University Shu-mei Shih, UCLA Simona Sawhney , University of Minnesota Steve Hahn, University of Pennsylvania Susan Edmunds, Syracuse University Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania Taher Herzallah, University of California, Riverside Tariq Thachil, Yale University Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota Toni Bowers, University of Pennsylvania Toorjo Ghose, University of Pennsylvania Tsitsi Jaji, University of Pennsylvania Vijay Prashad, Trinity College Viranjini Munasinghe, Cornell University Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania Rei Terada, UC Irvine Ravi Palat, Binghamton University Irma T. Elo, University of Pennsylvania Gregory Mann, Columbia University Qadri Ismail, Univerisity of Minnesota Nik Heynen, University of Georgia Shefali Chandra, Washington University St. Louis Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota Ismail Poonawala, UCLA Zohreh Sullivan, UIUC Richard Dienst, Rutgers University Charles E. Butterworth, University of Maryland Gabriel Piterberg, Professor of History, UCLA Jennifer Olmsted, Drew University Katherine C. King, University of California at Los Angeles Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University Sondra Hale, Los Angeles (UCLA) Caren Kaplan, Professor, UC Davis Carole S. Vance, Columbia University Karen Brodkin, Professor Emerita, UCLA Lee Zimmerman, Hofstra University Louise Fortmann, UC Berkeley David Klein, California State University, Northridge Barrie Thorne, University of California, Berkeley Ahlam Muhtaseb, California State University, San Bernardino Neil Smith, CUNY Carole H. Browner, UCLA Kamala Visweswaran, University of Texas Guy Pollio, Nassau Community College Mona Mehdy, Univ of Texas at Austin Snehal Shingavi, University of Texas, Austin Tim Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania Michael Goldman, University of Minnesota Huma Dar, UC Berkeley Zachary Lockman, New York University Rebecca L. Stein, Duke University Dohra Ahmad, St. John’s University Richard Falk, UCSB Sondra Hale, UCLA Gayatri Gopinath, NYU Shane Minkin, Swarthmore College Lisa Duggan, NYU Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley Jed Esty , University of Pennsylvania Christopher L. Chiappari, St. Olaf College Aniruddha Das, Columbia University Thomas Pepper, University of Minnesota Helen Scott, University of Vermont Gayatri Chakravoty Spivak, Columbia University Lisa Hajjar UCSB Stephanie McCurry , University of Pennsylvania S. Shankar, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Cindi Katz, CUNY. Nada Elia, Antioch University – Seattle Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania