Craig Howes
Overview
Craig Howes is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and has defended disgraced anti-Israel Professor Steven Salaita.As of September 2019, Howes was a professor in the Department of Englishat the University of Hawai’i (UH).
As of January 2020, Howes’ LinkedIn said he was the Director of the Center for Biographical Research at UH, since 1997.
Supporting BDS
In 2016, Howes signed an open letter calling for the academic boycott of Israel.The open letter was addressed to the Modern Language Association (MLA), “calling on the association to pass a resolution endorsing the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.”
In January 2017, the MLA Delegate Assembly approved a resolution (2017-1) acknowledging “the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel contradicts the MLA’s purpose” and conflicted with another resolution (2002-1), that condemned boycotts against scholars. Therefore, the Assembly “resolved that the MLA refrain from endorsing the boycott.”
In February 2014, Howes signed an open letter condemning the administration of UH for expressing its opposition to the American Studies Association’s (ASA) recent endorsement of the academic boycott of Israel.
Signatories of the letter, signed by Howes, charged that opponents of the academic boycott of Israel “support academic institutions that participate in the denial of human rights, including the right to education, experienced by Palestinians who, like Native Hawaiians, live under conditions of occupation.”
The letter went on to charge: “our administrators nowhere in their statement acknowledge Palestinian existence, let alone ways Palestinians’ academic and human rights are violated by Israel and with the support from the US of over three billion federal tax dollars a year in direct aid alone.”
Defending Steven Salaita
In 2014, Howes reportedly signed a letter to the Board of Trustees from UH staff, in support of a “boycott of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) until you reinstate Dr. Steven Salaita.”In 2014, The University of Illinois withdrew an offer of employment to Salaita after becoming aware of his anti-Semitic tweets. One tweet, posted shortly after Hamas kidnapped three teenage Israeli high school students, read: "You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.” In 2017, Salaita posted to Facebook: “People ask if I would go back in time and change anything. I would not…I will die unapologetic.” In February 2019, Salaita stated that he had become a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C., area.
Social Media and Weblinks
University Website:http://english.hawaii.edu/faculty/craig-howes/
- Status:
- Professor
- University:
- Hawaii-Manoa
- Organizations:
- BDS
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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