Israel Denial (eBook)

Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State

Cary Nelson (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2019
658 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04507-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A work of "e;rigorous intellectual inquiry"e; critiquing the BDS movement in academia (Jewish Journal). 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.A co-publication of the Academic Engagement Network

Autor

lt;P>Cary Nelson is author or editor of over 30 books, including studies of modern poetry and the politics of higher education, Nelson’s most recent book is Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel.

Inhalt

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE—CONTRASTING AGENDAS: BOYCOTT VERSUS PEACEBUILDING

I THE GOALS AND TACTICS OF THE BOYCOTT MOVEMENT

II FIVE COMPONENTS OF A PEACE PLAN

PART TWO—FOUR BDS FACULTY PORTRAITS

III JUDITH BUTLER: A Philosopher Promotes a One-State Fantasy

IV STEVEN SALAITA: The Fluid Line Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

V SAREE MAKDISI: Criminalizing Israeli Law and Culture

VI JASBIR PUAR: Obsessive Demonology as a Research Agenda

PART THREE—TEACHING FOR EMPATHY OR HOSTILITY

VII ANTI-ZIONIST HOSTILITY:

Teaching to Delegitimate the Jewish State

VIII PEDAGOGY AS EMPATHY:

Teaching Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian Poetry Together

PART FOUR—CHALLENGES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND IN PALESTINE

IX A FACULTY GROUP ORGANIZES A BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN

X ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES

XI THE CASE FOR COORDINATED UNILATERAL WITHDRAWL FROM THE WEST BANK: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm

AFTERWORD

Where BDS is Headed in the Academy

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

INDEX

Rezensionen

lt;P>This is a fine book on the strategies and argumentation of the BDS movement, and on some of its leading proponents. Nelson offers his readers powerful dissections and refutations of many of the BDS's talking points, as well as some thoughts about moving towards accommodations regarding –if not a solution to—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The campaign to boycott Israel wants to be seen as a symbolic marker of the true community of the good; it poses as the simple global resistance to the Israeli right. Israel Denial disrupts this dishonest and menacing positioning. It raises its banner within the community of the progressive, it articulates opposition to both the BDS and the pro-settler nationalist flag-wavers, it embraces a politics of peace and it consistently opposes both anti-Arab racism and antisemitism.

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04507-X / 025304507X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04507-2 / 9780253045072