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The Gatekeepers (photo: Sony Pictures)
Can ‘The Gatekeepers’ open the gates to the empire?
Is there growing realization within Israeli society that the social, political, moral, and military basis of the occupation is unsustainable? If so, perhaps ‘The Gatekeepers’ need not change people’s minds, so much as express them. A college professor once taught me that a decaying empire clenches onto power with a chokehold. Israel’s occupation of the…
By Dahlia Scheindlin February 24, 2013
Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti at Brooklyn College
Despite controversy, Brooklyn College BDS panel is a non-event
NEW YORK — After more than a week of controversy, including an editorial in the New York Times and a statement from Mayor Bloomberg, Brooklyn College hosted a discussion of BDS with Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti and nothing happened. That fact alone seems worthy of a story these days. In a post for +972,…
By Lisa Goldman February 7, 2013
Israeli and American flags (photo: flickr / hoyasmeg CC BY 2.0)
Attack on NY ‘boycott Israel’ panel threatens academic freedom
After Alan Dershowitz started a campaign against a BDS panel at Brooklyn College, the institution’s funding was threatened by ‘pro-Israel’ officials. The college stuck to its guns, but the entire fiasco is an excellent example of the double standard ailing the debate on Israel in the U.S. Israel is once again at the center of a…
By Mairav Zonszein February 6, 2013
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