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Supporters of the American Studies Association’s call for a boycott of Israel universities are distorting what the boycott is – and how it will affect academe. The “institutional boycott” is likely to function as a political test in a hidden…
read moreWhat does it mean to be on the left? I think one thing it might mean is an attachment to some kind of universalism. That is the idea that human beings are all, in some profound way, of equal value. …
read moreA co-ordinated campaign by Ronnie Fraser, his lawyers and his witnesses to try to intmidate critics of Israel with an invented accusation of antisemitism would indeed be vile and disgraceful. This is what the Tribunal thought was The Tribunal…
read moreSeptember 24, 2011 – David Hirsh Matthias Küntzel In the Straightjacket of Anti-Zionism: A critical review of Gilbert Achcar’s The Arabs and the Holocaust Download the PDF of the whole review by following this link: In the Straightjacket of Anti-Zionism…
read moreJacqueline Rose, at a conference last September became exasperated by patient logical arguments against boycotting Israeli academics. In the end she fell back on the desperate exclamation, “We have to do something!” Never mind that a blacklist of Israeli academics…
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