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The case against academic boycotts of Israel /edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm ; preface by Paul Berman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • computer
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  • online resource
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  • 9780990331612
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  • LC72 .C374 2015
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Works Cited; PART I: OPPOSING BOYCOTTS AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE; On Academic Boycotts; The Controversy; AAUP Policies; AAUP History; Boycotts; The Academic Boycott as a Tactic; Summary and Recommendations; Against Academic Boycotts; Some Distinctions; Boycotts; Scholars Against Scholarship: The Boycott as an Infringement of Academic Culture; The Fragility of Academic Freedom; Works Cited; Anti-Semitic in Intent if Not in Effect: Questions of Bigotry, Dishonesty, and Shame.

When a Boycott Is Not Moral Action but Social Conformity and the "Affectation of Love"Works Cited; PART II: THE AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION; The Closing of the American Studies Association's Mind; The American Studies Association Boycott Resolution, Academic Freedom, and the Myth of the Institutional Boycott; Summary; What the ASA resolution says; Summary of the ASA position; The "institutional boycott" functions as a political test by another name; An "institutional boycott" is still a violation of the principles of academic freedom.

In reality, the boycott campaign is an exclusion of individual Jewish scholars who work in Israel from the global academic communityBoycott Bubkes: The Murky Logic of the ASA's Resolution Against Israel; The Boycott Debate at Smith; PART III: THE BDS MOVEMENT, THE LEFT, AND AMERICAN CULTURE; Islamism, BDS, and the West; Works Cited; Anti-Semitism and the Left That Doesn't Learn; I; II; The Problem with Judith Butler: The Political Philosophy of BDS and the Movement to Delegitimate Israel; The BDS Movement and the Academy: The State of Play; Butler and the Holocaust.

Justice as an Ahistorical AbstractionAnti-Semitism and Butler's Agenda for Jewish Identity; One State and the Right of Return; Works Referenced; "When you want to do something, join us!": The Limits of the Social Justice Mandate in American Higher Education; Interrogating the Academic Boycotters of Israel on American Campuses; I. Introduction; II. Who are the Academic Boycotters of Israel?; Divisional and Departmental Affiliations of Boycotters; Ideological Motivation of Boycotters; III. How Have Faculty Promoted the Academic Boycott of Israel on Their Campuses?

1. As Part of the Course Curriculum2. At an Academic Conference; 3. On the University Website; 4. Through Departmental Sponsorship of a Student BDS Event; 5. By Advising Pro-Palestinian Students; 6. In the Academic Senate; 7. Using a Faculty Advocacy Group; IV. Institutional Factors that Allow Faculty to Promote the Academic Boycott of Israel on Campus; 1. Academic Departments That Encourage Political Activism; 2. The Vagueness and Malleability of Academic Freedom; 3. The Unwillingness of Administrators to Enforce University Policies and the Law.

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