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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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‘That’s not who we are, we are better than this’
From Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism (Bloomsbury Academic 2018). Preface [1] This is an adaptation of Ghassan Hage’s elegiac and angry J’Accuse against settler colonial white Australia, posted on Facebook on 19 October 2016. With Ghassan Hage’s kind permission.
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.