Anti-Zionism on Campus The University, Free Speech, and BDS [Hardcover]

Many scholars have endured the struggle against rising anti-Israel sentiments on college and university campuses worldwide. This volume of personal essays documents and analyzes the deleterious impact of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the most cherished Western institutions. These essays illustrate how anti-Israelism corrodes the academy and its treasured ideals of free speech, civility, respectful discourse, and open research. Nearly every chapter attests to the blurred distinction between anti-Israelism and antisemitism, as well as to hostile learning climates where many Jewish students, staff, and faculty feel increasingly unwelcome and unsafe.Anti-Zionism on Campusprovides a testament to the specific ways anti-Israelism manifests on campuses and considers how this chilling and disturbing trend can be combatted.

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction and Overview: The Silencing / Andrew Pessin and Doron S. Ben-Atar 1

I. Scholars Essays

2. Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas / Julien Bauer 58

4. A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime / Corinne E. Blackmer 75

5. Slouching toward the City That Never Stops: How a Left-Orientalist Anti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!) / Gabriel Noah Brahm 83

6. On Radio Silence and the Video That Saved the Day: The Attack against Professor Dubnov at the University of California San Diego, 2012 / Shlomo Dubnov 91

7. Fraser versus the University College Union: A Personal Reflection / Ronnie Fraser 105

8. If You Are Not With Us: The National Womens Studies Association and Israel / Janet Freedman 122

9. Rhodes University, Not a Home for All: A Progressive Zionists Two-Year Odyssey / Larissa Klazinga 134

10. Loud and Fast versus Slow al“!