The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19971332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cary Nelson, Gabriel Noah Brahm, Gabriel Brahm |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 549 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The case against academic boycotts of Israel (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University (PUBLISHER • US) |
| OpenAlex | W2342106370 |
| Open Library | OL31027589M |
| ISBN | 9780990331605 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Last year, the British scholar Alan Johnson spoke up against a resolution to boycott Israel at the National University of Ireland, Galway. As he recounts the experience, “Anti-Israel student activists tried to break up the meeting by banging on the tables, using the Israeli flag as a toilet wipe, and screaming at me, again and again, ‘Fuck off our fucking campus you fucking Zionist!’” This outburst came from students “whose heads were filled with the common sense of intellectual circles in Europe—Zionism is racism, the Zionists ‘ethnically cleansed’ the natives from the land in 1948, Israel is an ‘Apartheid State,’ Israel is committing a slow genocide against the remaining Palestinians, and so on.” Johnson recognizes that students who recite this litany of angry accusations are “in thrall to anAnti-Zionist Ideology” that turns them into dedicated “Anti-Zionist Subjects.” Most probably know little if anything about the history of Zionism or have any first-hand experience of Israel, but this ignorance does not keep them from eagerly participating in the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement or from putting forward resolutions such as the one to which Johnson objected. Johnson’s essay appears in Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm’s impressively comprehensive collection The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel
Antisemitism · Archaeology · Boycott · Judaism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Screaming · Sociology · The Holocaust · Windsor · Zionism · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Religious studies · Soviet and Russian History · Academic freedom · Arab-Israeli conflict · asia · Boycotts · Disinvestment · Investments · Israel
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |