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Book SynopsisTestimonials giving voice to scholars and students who have been targeted by the Israel lobby
Trade Review'These testimonials provide a stunning and all too familiar portrait of the extent to which the forces that suppress free speech and academic freedom are at work in the U.S. university system'
-- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
'It is perhaps no surprise that as Israel drifts towards repression and reaction within, and becomes increasingly isolated internationally as a result of the harsh and criminal occupation, its informal lobby in the US becomes more desperate to stifle free and open discussion of the state they seek to protect. Efforts of the kind sampled here, targeting the academic world, are as deplorable as they are predictable, and should be dismissed with contempt, and strongly opposed.'
-- Noam Chomsky
'The insightful and captivating testimonials in this book are ... not just about challenging the 'Israel exception to free speech'; they are also about protecting civil liberties and democratic rights at large against the ominous rise of McCarthyism 2.0'
-- Omar Barghouti, Scholar and Co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
Table of ContentsForeword by Cynthia McKinney
Preface by Richard A. Falk
Introduction: Academic Repression on US University Campuses - William I. Robinson and Maryam S. Griffin
1. The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics - David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi
2. 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
3. My Ordeal with the Israel Lobby and the University of California - William I. Robinson
4. The Irvine 11: Power, Punishment, and Perseverance - Taher Herzallah with Osama Shabaik
5. A Problem Grows in Brooklyn - Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
6. Speaking Truth to Power: Advocating for Justice in/for Palestine - Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
7. Hanlon’s Razor Cuts Both Ways - David Delgado Shorter
8. The Intolerability of Intolerance - Persis Karim
9. Responding to Columbia University’s McCarthyism: Excerpts of Statement on March 14, 2005 to Columbia University Ad Hoc Grievance Committee - Joseph Massad
10. A Multiyear Zionist Censorship Campaign - David Klein
11. Some Thoughts on Facts, Politics, and Tenure - Nadia Abu El-Haj
12. Censoring and Sanctioning Students for Justice in Palestine - Max Geller
13. A So-called Self-hating, Anti-Semitic Jew Speaks Out - Lisa Rofel
14. Interrupted Destinies: Before and After and Forthwith - Steven Salaita
List of Resources
Notes on Contributors
Index
