Many academics are notoriously consumed with jealously; especially  when it comes to Jews who according to the controversial but sound 90's Bell Curve Study demonstrates that Ashkenazi (European) Jews are at the top of the American academic curve.  37% of all American Nobel Prize winners are Ashkenazi Jews. 22% of all worldwide Nobel Prize winners are Ashkenazi Jews. Is it any wonder the first academic group to adopt boycotts of Jewish Israeli academics was none other than the Asian American Studies Association? Tiger Mom's kids score just below Ashkenazi Jews in the study which must be very frustrating. What better way to get back at your loathed competitors than to kick them where it counts; in this case Israel.