A report arguing that some Israeli universities espouse an anti-Zionist viewpoint is roiling higher education in the country, triggering a controversial review of course materials at one institution and a call for donors to withhold gifts at another. The Institute for Zionist Strategies, a think tank, issued the study, specifically criticizing sociology and political-science departments at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University, reports the Haaretz newspaper. The president of Tel Aviv University asked to examine the syllabi of several sociology courses in response. The move was reportedly prompted by the Israeli Council for Higher Education, which oversees higher education in the country.

At Ben-Gurion, a Zionist group is calling for philanthropists to forgo financial support for the institution unless it takes steps to fix the purported bias. On Monday, Haaretz reports, top administrators from all of the country’s universities refuted the boycott. In a joint statement, they said: “As is proper in an enlightened democratic country, Israeli academia is not a political body, and academic faculty are chosen solely according to objective criteria of excellence in research and teaching.”