Anti-Zionism on Campus

The University, Free Speech, and BDS

Edited by Doron S. Ben-Atar and Andrew Pessin

Contributions by Dan Avnon, Julien Bauer, Corinne Blackmer, Gabriel Brahm, Shlomo Dubnov, Ronnie Fraser, Janet Freedman, Larissa Benita Klazinga, Jeffrey Kopstein, Martin Kramer, Philip Mendes, Richard Millett, Cary Nelson, Denise Nussbaum, Judea Pearl, Ami Pedahzur, Andrew Pessin, Peter Keeda, Clive Kesswer, Jan Poddebsky, Yaron Raviv, David Rosen, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Jill Schneiderman, Ernest Sternberg, Elhanan Yakira, Jesse Arm, Milan Chatterjee, Molly Horwitz, Eliana Kohn, Tomer Kornfeld, Jared Samilow and Daniel Swindell

Published by: Indiana University Press

Series: Studies in Antisemitism

Imprint: Indiana University Press

152.00 × 229.00 mm

WEB PDF
9780253034083
Published: March 2018

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction and Overview: The Silencing / Andrew Pessin and Doron Ben-Atar

I. Scholars' Essays1. BDS and Self-Righteous Moralists / Dan Avnon2. Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas / Julien Bauer3. Bullies at the Pulpit / Doron Ben-Atar4. A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime / Corinne E. Blackmer5. Slouching Toward the City That Never Stops: How a Left-Orientalist Anti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!) / Gabriel Noah Brahm6. On Radio Silence and the Video That Saved the Day: The Attack Against Prof. Dubnov at the University of California San Diego, 2012 / Shlomo Dubnov7. Fraser vs UCU: A Personal Reflection / Ronnie Fraser8. If You Are Not With Us : The National Women's Studies Association and Israel / Janet Freedman9. Rhodes University: Not a Home for All: A Progressive Zionist's Two-Year Odyssey / Larissa Klazinga10. Loud and Fast versus Slow and Quiet: Responses to Anti-Israel Activism on Campus / Jeffrey Kopstein11. A Controversy at Harvard / Martin Kramer12. Attempts to Exclude Pro-Israel Views from Progressive Discourse: Some Case Studies from Australia / Philip Mendes13. Anti-Israel Antisemitism in England / Richard Millett14. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom / Cary Nelson15. When Did We Abandon Academic Integrity for Academic Freedom? / Denise Nussbaum16. BDS and Zionophobic Racism / Judea Pearl17. Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at the University of Texas, Austin: Anti-Zionists on the Attack / Ami Pedahzur and Andrew Pessin18. Col. Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, Australia 11 March 2015 / Jan Poddebsky, Peter Keeda, and Clive Kessler19. "Oh! Now I've Got You!": In the Sights of Anti-Israelists at The Claremont Colleges / Yaron Raviv20. The Magic of Myth: Fashioning the BDS Narrative in the New Anthropology / David M. Rosen21. Retaliation: The High Price of Speaking Out about Campus Antisemitism and What It Means for Jewish Students / Tammi Rossman-Benjamin22. A Field Geologist in Politicized Terrain / Jill S. Schneiderman23. Fanatical Anti-Zionism and the Degradation of the University: What I Have Learned in Buffalo / Ernest Sternberg24. What is it Like to be an (Assertive) Israeli Academic Abroad? / Elhanan Yakira

II. Students' Essays25. A Wake-Up Call at the University of Michigan / Jesse Arm26. On Leaving UCLA Due to Hostile and Unsafe Campus Climate / Milan Chatterjee27. BDS and Antisemitism at Stanford University / Molly Horwitz28. On Being Pro-Israel, and Jewish, at Oberlin College / Eliana Kohn29. Battling Anti-Zionism at CUNY John Jay College / Tomer Kornfeld30. Students for Justice in Palestine at Brown University / Jared Samilow31. Battling Anti-Zionism at the University of Missouri / Daniel Swindell

III. Concluding Thoughts32. Inconclusive, Unscientific Postscript: On the Purpose of the University, and a Ray of Hope / Andrew Pessin

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