Does Academic Freedom Protect Antisemitism?
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Cary Nelson
Abstract
The examples listed in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Antisemitism suggests that some political views common in humanities and social science disciplines are antisemitic. In some disciplines, these views are well established in both teaching and publication. Yet the American Association of University Professors has long used prevailing disciplinary views as a guide to which faculty statements cannot be sanctioned. What should universities do when not just individual faculty, but entire disciplines have been captured by radical antizionism, when students are taught that Israel has no moral legitimacy and must be eliminated? How should personnel decisions be affected? Should this evolving situation lead us to rethink the relationship between advocacy and indoctrination? Can universities keep the search for the truth at the core of their mission in the wake of disciplinary solidarity behind antisemitism?
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Contents
- Editorial
- ARTICLES
- How the Word “Zionist” Functions in Antisemitic Vocabulary
- Does Academic Freedom Protect Antisemitism?
- In the House of the Hangman One should not Mention the Noose: Jewish Voice for Labour’s Attack on the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- PERSPECTIVES
- The Old Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo
- RESEARCH NOTES
- The Palestinian Flag as a Tool of Oppression
- Does BDS Produce Antisemitic Disruption to Student Government and Jewish Student Life? An Analysis of Pro-BDS Resolutions at Ohio State University and the Exclusion of Jewish Students on Campus
- REVIEWS
- Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities
- Criminaliser les Juifs: Le mythe du “meurtre rituel” et ses avatars (antijudaïsme, antisémitisme, antisionisme)
- Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination
- Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Representation, Cognition, and Everyday Talk
- Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Contents
- Editorial
- ARTICLES
- How the Word “Zionist” Functions in Antisemitic Vocabulary
- Does Academic Freedom Protect Antisemitism?
- In the House of the Hangman One should not Mention the Noose: Jewish Voice for Labour’s Attack on the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- PERSPECTIVES
- The Old Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo
- RESEARCH NOTES
- The Palestinian Flag as a Tool of Oppression
- Does BDS Produce Antisemitic Disruption to Student Government and Jewish Student Life? An Analysis of Pro-BDS Resolutions at Ohio State University and the Exclusion of Jewish Students on Campus
- REVIEWS
- Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities
- Criminaliser les Juifs: Le mythe du “meurtre rituel” et ses avatars (antijudaïsme, antisémitisme, antisionisme)
- Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination
- Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Representation, Cognition, and Everyday Talk
- Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich
