Neve Gordon

A United States nuclear bomb test (U.S. Department of Energy)

A way out from under the Middle East’s nuclear shadow

Princeton experts offer Solution for ending the nuclear dangers across the Middle East. By Neve Gordon Across the globe headlines pronounced that a “breakthrough agreement” had been reached in Geneva. Iran’s atomic ambitions had been curbed in exchange for limited sanctions relief, thus deflating the longstanding military standoff. The deal hammered out between Iran and the…

By +972 Magazine December 18, 2013

Eroding liberties: The ‘witch-hunt’ against Israeli academia

By Todd Gitlin Why should Americans care about political interference in the universities of a far-off country? Because the far-off country is Israel, one of our closest allies, a nation that features intimately in our own political life; and because Israel’s domestic affairs have a way of morphing into subjects of America’s never-ending culture wars.…

By +972 Magazine October 5, 2012

Racism, real estate and Jewish traitors

By Neve Gordon Living without your name Published: May 31, 2012 My friend’s wife was accepted to a PhD program at McGill University in Montreal. They decided to move to Canada with their two children at about the same time that I was offered a fellowship at Princeton and decided to move with my family…

By +972 Magazine July 28, 2012

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Imagining a Perpetual Peace in a war zone

By Neve Gordon Last year I gave the Israeli artist Amir Nave an old Hebrew copy of Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace, which I teach every so often in my Introduction to Political Theory class. He took the book, flipped through it, ripped out the title page, turned it upside down, signed it and returned it to me. Nave,…

By +972 Magazine July 3, 2012

Supreme Court (Photo: Flickr/ActiveStills)

Now that boycott law passed, government to target High Court

Neve Gordon argues that the 'boycott bill' is a turning point in the erosion of Israeli democracy, and part of the Knesset's greater strategy in which the next target is the Supreme Court.

By +972 Magazine July 18, 2011

Neve Gordon: Netanyahu and the one-state solution

Israel's unwillingness to compromise on key issues might annul a two-state solution, making only power-sharing viable.

By +972 Magazine May 23, 2011

Academic Freedom Under Attack? Interview with Prof. Neve Gordon

"the student doesn’t understand his or her role in the university, and sees him or herself as an uncritical agent of the state... Ultimately the criticism is internalized, and many professors think twice or fear to speak their opinions."

By Dahlia Scheindlin April 19, 2011