California university's anti-Israel crusade is endangering life-saving research

California university's anti-Israel crusade is endangering life-saving research

I recently retired after decades on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including 10 years as chairman of my chemistry department. Like many scientists, I’ve spent my career on problems that don’t yield to slogans: building evidence, testing claims, revising conclusions. Universities work when that ethic governs campus life. But across the University of California system, a growing number of faculty and academic units, parti…