The New Anthropology
…Americans and Palestinians are seen as allies, due to their being people of color suffering at the hands of American and Israeli whites. The new anthropology does not recognise that…
…Americans and Palestinians are seen as allies, due to their being people of color suffering at the hands of American and Israeli whites. The new anthropology does not recognise that…
…intersectionality of oppression to which campus victim groups regularly point, BLM’s 2016 platform included anti-Semitic language that libeled Israel by attempting to link its perceived oppression of the Palestinians with…
…their tactics and the toxic nature of their ideology. But if one scratches below the surface it is obvious that they are interested only in justice for one group—the Palestinians—at…
…the Congresswomen from Ramallah, engaged in Holocaust revisionism. She said she was proud of the way Palestinians tried to protect the Jews from the Holocaust. Unfortunately, an occasional crocodile tear…
…Wake Forest University Palestine Solidarity Coalition released a statement to the community that demonized Israel and supported the right of return for Palestinians which would effectively eliminate Israel as a…
…voting (until May 31) on a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The proposed resolution jumps off in its first sentence in universalist language, claiming that Israel has denied Palestinians “their…
…nation alters its approach to the Palestinians. Among the academic associations where the boycott movement has had success is the American Studies Association (ASA). Back in 2013, the association’s National…
…in the audience reported that Puar exhorted armed resistance to Israel; alleged that Israel “mined for organs” from dead Palestinians; and claimed that Israel systematically starves Palestinians as part of…
…herrings, distractions from the overriding issue of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Salih cites Martin Amis, who, returning to England in 2006 after two years abroad, was mortified to see…
…goal of returning “all Palestinian lands” to Palestinians and to “reverse Israeli colonization.” Todd Gitlin, the 60s radical who is now the chairman of the Ph.D. program in Communications at…
…you vote on divestment?” Although the senate has already passed a resolution urging Stanford to divest from companies alleged to profit from the oppression of Palestinians, divestment remains a live…
…conditions” for Palestinians who, for the most part, have opposed the boycott. Full disclosure: I think the boycott is ridiculous, especially now that SodaStream has already announced its plans to…
…union in the United States to vote to support BDS. Others have explained why the BDS movement is not merely a call for solidarity with Palestinians or to end the…
…clear to the world: stop oppressing and destroying the Palestinians.” Or when he signed a letter accusing the United States, with Israel as its proxy, of trying to “establish puppet…
…Nazis and asserting that Martin Luther King would have stood with the Palestinians had he been alive.” Fish proceeds by showing that the proponents of each rationale for academic freedom…
“As employees in institutions of higher learning, we have a particular responsibility to oppose Israel’s widespread and systematic violations of the right to higher education of Palestinians… As anthropologists, we…
…academic publications include such bizarre assertions as “it is well known by Palestinians that anytime one of them enters or exits Israel, regardless of nationality, he or she will likely…
…Kramer: “It is well known by Palestinians that anytime one of them enters or exits Israel, regardless of nationality, he or she will likely undergo an anal or vaginal probe….
Just as a new conflict breaks out between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East, the professoriate’s bias against Israel is resurfacing in novel, ugly ways. The Washington Free Beacon…
…speak about how Israel’s existence conflicts with Jewish values. Portray the Palestinians as the underdog. Stage 2: Arrange displays on your campus–the bigger the better. Put up an eight-foot high…
…Palestinian Authority “willing collaborators with the (Israeli) military occupation, a sort of Vichy government for Palestinians.” He is the patron scholarly saint of those who reject a two state solution….
…our purview of education. When it comes to the disputes between Israel and Palestinians, my sympathies are with the sole democracy in the Middle East, where the rule of law…
…existential conflict? Surely the denizens of the ASA could spare a resolution or two for China, Saudi Arabia, and other unfree societies. The ASA’s commitment to academic freedom for Palestinians,…
…for Israeli national security policies, and argue that the organization should “keep primarily in mind the freedom and ability for Palestinians to study free of a military occupation.” Yet by…
…concept; the “pinkwasher” theorists allege, without evidence, that Israel uses its generally positive record on gay rights to obscure its allegedly evil treatment of the Palestinians. Of course, if Israel…
…remove a Jewish student from class if she did not acknowledge Israel’s supposed atrocities against Palestinians, in 2005 Massad used one of Columbia’s “Core” classes to assign one book about…
…to Palestinians.” This language was consistent with former AAAS president Rajini Srikanth’s explanation for the boycott. He compared Israel to apartheid South Africa and argued that working with Israeli universities…
…of the Palestinians. There’s one major difference between the Brooklyn BDS event and the Graduate Center. While the Brooklyn event lacked even the pretense of academic content–and thus was, on…
…“lethal narrative” in a cognitive war developed by racist Palestinians to mark Jews as a legitimate target of violent revenge. Hence the chant of the SJP in Copley square: “When…
…Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon bore responsibility for the Palestinians’ embrace of suicide-murder tactics, has made something of a career in Corrie Studies; the Evergreen website notes that he served…