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Israel denial : anti-Zionism, anti-semitism, & the faculty campaign against the Jewish state / Cary Nelson.
Van Pelt Library DS149.5.U6 N45 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Cary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement--Study and teaching--United States.
- Boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.
- Propaganda, Anti-Israeli.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Peace.
- Palestinian Arabs--Civil rights.
- Antisemitism in higher education.
- Zionism--Study and teaching.
- Zionism.
- United States.
- Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (Movement) (Corporate Name).
- Zionism--Study and teaching--United States.
- Antisemitism in higher education--United States.
- Palestinian Arabs--Civil rights--Study and teaching--United States.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Peace--Study and teaching--United States.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects.
- Propaganda, Anti-Israeli--United States.
- Study skills.
- Physical Description:
- 548 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Academic Engagement Network ; Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- 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 devoted a significant part of their professional lives to delegitimizing the Jewish state. While there are beliefs they hold in common--including the conviction that there is nothing good to say about Israel--they also develop distinctive arguments designed to recruit converts to their cause in novel ways. They do so both as writers and as teachers; Israel Denial is the first to give substantial attention to anti-Zionist pedagogy. No effort to understand the BDS movement's impact on the academy and public policy can be complete without the kind of understanding this book offers.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nelson, Cary, author. Israel denial
- ISBN:
- 9780253045058
- 0253045053
- 9780253045041
- 0253045045
- OCLC:
- 1096215715
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