 Wesleyan took the case to the Connecticut Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments in the case in early 2019.Roth publicly condemned the academic boycott of Israeli institutions made by the American Studies Association and other scholarly organizations as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, a stance that attracted further protest from many Wesleyan alumni.Following a April 2015 protest in Roth's office, in which students demanded that Wesleyan University divest its endowment from the private prison industry, the Israeli occupation, and the fossil fuel industry, Roth made a blog post, in part stating, "I don’t see Wesleyan’s selling stock as being at all relevant to the creation of conditions for peace in the Middle East.Indeed, I think that the call for selling stock is a distraction from the essential policy and diplomatic challenges ahead.