Israel denial : anti-Zionism, anti-semitism, & the faculty campaign against the Jewish state /

Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published--individually and collectively--in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace. The faculty discussed here have devot...

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Main Author: Nelson, Cary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Academic Engagement Network : A Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780253045072
025304507X
9780253045089
0253045088
9780253045065
0253045061
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Contrasting agendas : boycott versus peacebuilding
  • The goals and tactics of the boycott movement
  • Five components of a peace plan
  • BDS faculty portraits
  • Judith Butler : a philosopher promotes a one-state fantasy
  • Steven Salaita : the fluid line between anti-zionism and anti-semitism
  • Saree Makdisi : criminalizing Israeli law and culture
  • Jasbir Puar : obsessive demonology as a research agenda
  • Teaching for empathy or hostility
  • Anti-zionist hostility : teaching to delegitimate the Jewish state
  • Pedagogy as empathy : teaching Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian poetry
  • Together
  • Challenges in professional associations and in Palestine
  • A faculty group organizes a boycott campaign
  • Academic freedom in Palestinian universities
  • The case for coordinated unilateral withdrawal from parts of the West Bank : a proposal to rescue the two-state paradigm
  • Afterword
  • Where BDS is headed in the academy.