9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor’s New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Andrew Pessin’s Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge 5
6. Condensed Timeline 8
7. Part One. WHEN CRITICIZING HAMAS BECAME A CAMPUS HATE CRIME
8. 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor 19
9. 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim 34
10. 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style 72
11. Part Two. STUDIES IN PESSINOLOGY
12. 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency 99
13. 5. “I Was Rude, You Were Evil”: Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin 114
14. 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues 138
15. Part Three. REFLECTIONS: SALEM ON THE THAMES— STAMPEDING A HERD OF CATS
16. 7. What Connecticut College’s Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us 173
17. 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 186
18. 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor’s New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism 195
19. Bibliography 201