Mission Statement

IAM is a non-profit, grassroots organization comprising citizens who, while strongly advocating free speech and academic freedom, are seriously concerned about the growing tendency to distort and abuse these two essential characteristics of a democratic society. Of particular concern are academics who defame their own universities and advocate measures that will harm Israel in general and their universities in particular by using unbalanced prejudiced arguments that fail to live up to the scholarship standards expected of the universities they represent.

Our goal is to present the truth by making the activities of those academics more widely known and challenging their distortions and bias.

IAM endorses the following principles set out in a 1940 statement by The American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

"When College and university teachers speak or write as citizens they should remember that the public may judge their profession and their institution by their utterances. Hence they should at all times be accurate, should exercise appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others, and should make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking for the institution".

And

"Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject".

Largely due to the efforts of the newly constituted IAM leadership, the 2010 annual meetings of the boards of governors of Israeli universities discussed for the first time, the leading part played by some of their  faculty members in blatant anti-Israel activities.