Israel denial : anti-Zionism, anti-semitism, & the faculty campaign against the Jewish state / Cary Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Cary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Study skills.

Zionism--Study and teaching.

Zionism.

Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (Movement).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

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:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253045089

025304507X

OCLC:

1091583023