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Ronit Lentin, Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
Mahmoud Ababneh Journal of Holyland and Palestine Studies 19(2) https://www.euppublishing.com/…/10.3366/hlps.2020.0251 In Traces of Racial Exception, Ronit Lentin prefaces her book with a list of crimes that the Israeli settler-state committed against the indigenous peoples of Palestine. After each crime, Lentin concludes with but that’s not who we are, we are better than this (vii–viii). This…
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Colonial academic control in Palestine and Israel: Blueprint for repression?
Ronit Lentin In Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel, eds. David Landy, Ronit Lentin, Conor McCarthy (Zed Books/Bloomsbury 2020) Introduction In January 2018 the Israeli Knesset approved a bill bringing academic institutes in the occupied West Bank under the jurisdiction of Israel’s Higher Education Authority. According to Haaretz, the legislation is…
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New Book: Enforcing Silence
ENFORCING SILENCE: ACADEMIC FREEDOM, PALESTINE AND THE CRITICISM OF ISRAEL EDITED BY: DAVID LANDY, RONIT LENTIN AND CONOR MCCARTHY ZED BOOKS / BLOOMSBURY 2020 “Criticism of Israel has become the litmus test of ‘academic freedom.’ Anyone believing that this is, at bottom, a straightforward and unquestionable notion will change their mind after reading this very…
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