We will not be silenced : the academic repression of Israel's critics

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"As criticism continues to mount over Israel's violation of Palestinian human rights and of international law, campaigns to silence and repress those who speak out have grown alarmingly. College and university campuses across the United States now find themselves at the centre stage of this conflict over free speech: scholars have been turned away from jobs, denied tenure and promotion, rejected for funding, and expelled from institutions, while...

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Academic freedom United States

College students Civil rights United States

Freedom of speech United States

Israel Politics and government 1993-

Teaching, Freedom of United States

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Universities and colleges Political aspects United States

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ISBN:

9781849352765

Description:

xviii, 222 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The trial of Israel's campus critics / David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi
They shoot tenure, don't they? : how I crossed the borders of acceptable academic discourse on Holocaust film and the question of Palestine, and never came back / Terri Ginsberg
My ordeal with the Israel lobby and the University of California / William I. Robinson
The Irvine 11 : power, punishment, and perseverance / Taher Herzallah with Osama Shabaik
A problem grows in Brooklyn / Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
Speaking truth to power : advocating for justice in/for Palestine / Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
Hanlon's razor cuts both ways / David Delgado Shorter
The intolerability of intolerance / Persis Karim
Responding to Columbia University's McCarthyism : excerpts of statement on March 14, 2005 to Columbia University Ad Hoc Grievance Committee / Joseph Massad
A multiyear Zionist censorship campaign / David Klein
Some thoughts on facts, politics, and tenure / Nadia Abu El-Haj
Censoring and sanctioning students for justice in Palestine / Max Geller
A so-called self-hating, anti-Semitic Jew speaks out / Lisa Rofel
Interrupted destinies : before and after and forthwith / Steven Salaita

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2016948842

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2273205

Other Authors:

Griffin, Maryam Susan, editor
Robinson, William I., editor

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