UID:
almafu_9959797983102883
Format:
1 online resource (456 pages).
ISBN:
0-253-03409-4
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0-253-03408-6
Series Statement:
Studies in antisemitism
Content:
1. This book is an exposition of the actual and personal consequences of the BDS assault on university campuses. 2. Its authors include a senior scholar in American history and a senior scholar in philosophy. Both are strong followers of the BDS movement on American college and university campus. Pessin maintains a news outlet on matters concerning Jews and Israel. 3. Work on antisemitism is an important component of our Jewish studies list. Books in this area provide a unique contribution to understanding the resurgence of religiously motivated violence and hate speech.
Note:
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Overview: The Silencing -- I. Scholars' Essays -- 1. BDS and Self-Righteous Moralists -- 2. Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas -- 3. Bullies at the Pulpit -- 4. A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime -- 5. Slouching toward the City That Never Stops: How a Left-Orientalist Anti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!) -- 6. On Radio Silence and the Video That Saved the Day: The Attack against Professor Dubnov at the University of California San Diego, 2012 -- 7. Fraser versus the University College Union: A Personal Reflection -- 8. If You Are Not With Us: The National Women's Studies Association and Israel -- 9. Rhodes University, Not a Home for All: A Progressive Zionist's Two-Year Odyssey -- 10. Loud and Fast versus Slow and Quiet: Responses to Anti-Israel Activism on Campus -- 11. A Controversy at Harvard -- 12. Attempts to Exclude Pro-Israel Views from Progressive Discourse: Some Case Studies from Australia -- 13. Anti-Israel Antisemitism in England -- 14. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom -- 15. When Did We Abandon Academic Integrity for Academic Freedom? -- 16. BDS and Zionophobic Racism -- 17. Friday, November 13, 2015, at the University of Texas, Austin: Anti-Zionists on the Attack -- 18. Colonel Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, Australia, March 11, 2015 -- 19. "Oh! Now I've Got You!": In the Sights of Anti-Israelists at the Claremont Colleges -- 20. The Magic of Myth: Fashioning the BDS Narrative in the New Anthropology -- 21. Retaliation: The High Price of Speaking Out about Campus Antisemitism and What It Means for Jewish Students.
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22. A Field Geologist in Politicized Terrain -- 23. Fanatical Anti-Zionism and the Degradation of the University: What I Have Learned in Buffalo -- 24. What Is It Like to Be an (Assertive) Israeli Academic Abroad? -- II. Students' Essays -- 25. A Wake-Up Call at the University of Michigan -- 26. On Leaving the University of California, Los Angeles, Due to Hostile and Unsafe Campus Climate -- 27. Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions and Antisemitism at Stanford University -- 28. On Being Pro-Israel, and Jewish, at Oberlin College -- 29. Battling Anti-Zionism at City University of New York John Jay College -- 30. Students for Justice in Palestine at Brown University -- 31. Battling Anti-Zionism at the University of Missouri -- III. Concluding Thoughts -- 32. Inconclusive, Unscientific Postscript: On the Purpose of the University, and a Ray of Hope -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-03407-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-03406-X
Language:
English
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