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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.
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Ireland, Israel and the Occupied Territories Bill
Published in The Irish Times, 4 February 2019 The published article is available through the link. I re-wrote the final paragraph, as it spoke of ‘human empathy’ which I do not find useful when speaking of political solidarity. Israel’s response to the passing of the Occupied Territories Bill in the Dail last week entailed, on…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.