Alan Levine: Jews Are Dishonored by a Blind Defense of Israel

20.05.2011

Now that the City University of New York board of trustees has reversed course and approved an honorary degree for Tony Kushner, it is time for the Jewish establishment to reflect upon its failure to speak out. Jewish history tells us that silence is complicity. While individual Jews and progressive Jewish organizations, such as 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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The Ongoing Attack on Academic Freedom: Which Way Forward?

21.04.2011

Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 6.30 PM Light Refreshments 5:30-6 PSC-CUNY Union Hall 61 Broadway, 16th floor (photo ID required) Keynote speaker: Frances Fox Piven : Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America Additional speakers: Anita Levy , Associate Secretary, Academic Freedom Dept., AAUP on [...]

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Beyond the Threshold of Atrocity: Nationalism, Biopower & Israel’s Occupation of Gaza

09.04.2011

I’ll be presenting my paper, “Beyond the Threshold of Atrocity: Nationalism, Biopower & Israel’s Occupation of Gaza” at the upcoming American Political Science Association annual meeting in Seattle this September. If you’d like to view a draft copy of my paper, you can get a copy here.

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Academic Freedom & Palestine

04.04.2011

Friday April 8th, 2011 @ 7:30 PM The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (that’s the West Side Highway) between Bank & Bethune Streets NYC 10014 (212) 242-4201 Join us for a conversation on the fightback against academic repression and its connection to Palestine, Islamophobia and academic freedom on US campuses. The story this past semester [...]

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Popular Uprisings: Mid-East to Mid-West

13.03.2011

Friday, March 25, 2011, 6-8 PM Light Refreshments 5:30-6 PSC-CUNY Union Hall 61 Broadway, 16th floor (photo ID required) Speakers: Ervand Abrahamian : Professor of Iranian and Middle East History, Baruch College, CUNY Yoav Peled : Professor of Political Science, Israeli politics, Tel Aviv University, currently visiting New School Kristofer Petersen-Overton : Adjunct Lecturer of [...]

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Panel Discussion: Academic Freedom and the New McCarthyism

05.03.2011

March 14, 2011 @ 6.30 PM CUNY Graduate Center, rm 201 (basement level) 365 Fifth Avenue B/D/F/M/N/Q/R to 34th St-Herald Square Our university is once again under attack. Such vitriolic opponents of academic freedom as Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind have recently targeted City University of New York faculty members [...]

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Academic Freedom Day at Hunter College

25.02.2011

March 2, 2011 @ 1.00 PM FDA Lounge 8th floor, West Building Hunter College New York, NY Come hear from Kristofer Petersen-Overton, Adjunct Lecturer of Political Science at Brooklyn College who was fired from his position as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College one week before his course on Middle East politics was to begin. [...]

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