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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book completely discredits BDS by demonstrating in devastating detail how much it corrupts academic standards and undermines the chances for peace. With its more than 400 pages of text, some 50 pages of notes, and an extensive bibliography, the book not only reflects Nelson's longstanding concern about the corrosive effects of BDS activism, but also his vast experience and erudition as a prolific scholar whose academic career spans almost five decades.
* The Algemeiner *
After Nelson's book, no one should be able to take the work of the BDS professors seriously, given their reliance on propagandistic lies. Cary Nelson's Israel is not the mythic realm of demons fantasized by BDS advocates but an actual place that contains signs of hope.
-- David Mikics,
TabletNelson has written a very good book: clear, judicious, and exemplary in its concern for reason and evidence.
* Fathom *
Israel Denial is an epic response to BDS and its pseudo-intellectual underpinnings.
* elder of Ziyon *
Israel Denial seeks to take the rug out from beneath the feet of scholars pushing vilification of Israel and promoting discrimination against Israeli institutions by discriminating against Israeli faculty and students. This is an important book for those who want to be equipped with fighting what is called academic BDS.
* Israel Diaries *
[T]his book fills a desperate need—the need to expose the bigotry of the anti-Israel academy and the thinly veiled fictions they propagate.
* Commentary *
Israel Denial is a staggering work of rigorous intellectual inquiry that helps us understand how a deep anti-Israel animus in academia has fueled the rise of intersectionality as a movement to isolate and exclude Jews.
* Jewish Journal *
Table of ContentsPREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE—CONTRASTING AGENDAS: BOYCOTT VERSUS PEACEBUILDING
I THE GOALS AND TACTICS OF THE BOYCOTT MOVEMENT
II FIVE COMPONENTS OF A PEACE PLAN
PART TWO—FOUR BDS FACULTY PORTRAITS
III JUDITH BUTLER: A Philosopher Promotes a One-State Fantasy
IV STEVEN SALAITA: The Fluid Line Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
V SAREE MAKDISI: Criminalizing Israeli Law and Culture
VI JASBIR PUAR: Obsessive Demonology as a Research Agenda
PART THREE—TEACHING FOR EMPATHY OR HOSTILITY
VII ANTI-ZIONIST HOSTILITY:
Teaching to Delegitimate the Jewish State
VIII PEDAGOGY AS EMPATHY:
Teaching Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian Poetry Together
PART FOUR—CHALLENGES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND IN PALESTINE
IX A FACULTY GROUP ORGANIZES A BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN
X ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES
XI THE CASE FOR COORDINATED UNILATERAL WITHDRAWL FROM THE WEST BANK: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm
AFTERWORD
Where BDS is Headed in the Academy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
