Palestine

On Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

10.05.2012

Earlier this year, a letter was read aloud to an audience at the University of Pennsylvania as they waited to hear a talk by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. The auditorium was filled to capacity and the mood was grim. UPenn president and political theorist Amy Gutmann was unable to attend the event, so a [...]

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Academic Freedom & Palestine: A Personal Account

29.11.2011

Good research is often controversial. In the social sciences, the exchange of new ideas, new interpretations of history, and the excavation of counter-hegemonic or what Michel Foucault would call “subjugated” knowledge unsettles and upsets received wisdom. For those of us fortunate enough to study a region as eternally fascinating and intellectually demanding as the Middle [...]

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The Freedom Flotilla Can’t Lose

04.07.2011

If you haven’t yet noticed, Israel is seriously concerned about the group of international peace activists aiming to break the military blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government has leveled a wide range of unsubstantiated charges against the activists with the second annual Freedom Flotilla, accusing them of vague ties to Hamas, latent anti-Semitism [...]

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Mavi Marmara Memorial Exhibit

30.05.2011

Join us in commemorating nine peace activists who were killed by Israeli soldiers when they sailed on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31, 2010. The Mavi Marmara Memorial will mark the one-year anniversary of the attack on the flotilla. The opening will feature the exhibiting artists along with Jane Hirschmann, a member of Jews [...]

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Tony Kushner and the Corporatisation of CUNY

10.05.2011

The taboo surrounding critical discussion of Israel in the United States never ceases to amaze me. But when the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) recently decided not to grant an honorary degree to Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner because of his views on Israel, it felt personal. Three months [...]

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Letter to the CUNY Board of Trustees, Re: Tony Kushner

06.05.2011

Dear members of the board: I am writing to protest your vote to overturn John Jay College’s decision to grant an honorary degree to the award-winning playwright Tony Kushner. I’m sure you’ve been inundated with messages of support for Mr. Kushner, but I would like to add my drop to the flood and urge you [...]

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Video: Academic Freedom & Palestine

21.04.2011

April 8th, 2011 @ the Brecht Forum.

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New York College Racked Over ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Reading List

24.02.2011

NEW YORK // The Palestinian-Israeli conflict inspires political activism on college campuses across the United States, but rarely has the issue so regularly affected academic life as at Brooklyn College, which has large numbers of Orthodox Jews and Arabs in its student body. It has been less than a year since a book by a [...]

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The Autograph: Kristofer Petersen-Overton Comments on Middle East Politics

22.02.2011

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Life After Re-Appointment: Adjunct Lecturer Petersen-Overton Back at Brooklyn College

19.02.2011

The start of a new semester is frequently charged with excitement and a sense of fresh beginnings. But for Kristofer Petersen-Overton, an adjunct lecturer of political science at Brooklyn College, the beginning of this Spring semester brought the shock of discovering that he was unemployed. Making matters even more con­fusing, he was notified of his [...]

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