Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction and Overview: The Silencing / Andrew Pessin and Doron S. Ben-Atar 1

I. Scholars’ Essays

1. BDS and Self-Righteous Moralists / Dan Avnon 43
2. Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas / Julien Bauer 58

3. Bullies at the Pulpit / Doron S. Ben-Atar 66
4. A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime / Corinne E. Blackmer 75

5. Slouching toward the City That Never Stops: How a Left-Orientalist Anti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!) / Gabriel Noah Brahm 83

6. On Radio Silence and the Video That Saved the Day: The Attack against Professor Dubnov at the University of California San Diego, 2012 / Shlomo Dubnov 91

7. Fraser versus the University College Union: A Personal Reflection / Ronnie Fraser 105

8. If You Are Not With Us: The National Women’s Studies Association and Israel / Janet Freedman 122

9. Rhodes University, Not a Home for All: A Progressive Zionist’s Two-Year Odyssey / Larissa Klazinga 134

10. Loud and Fast versus Slow and Quiet: Responses to Anti-Israel Activism on Campus / Jeffrey Kopstein 142

11. A Controversy at Harvard / Martin Kramer 151

12. Attempts to Exclude Pro-Israel Views from Progressive Discourse: Some Case Studies from Australia / Philip Mendes 163

13. Anti-Israel Antisemitism in England / Richard Millett 174

14. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom / Cary Nelson 190

15. When Did We Abandon Academic Integrity for Academic Freedom? / Denise Nussbaum 212

16. BDS and Zionophobic Racism / Judea Pearl 224

17. Friday, November 13, 2015, at the University of Texas, Austin: Anti-Zionists on the Attack / Ami Pedahzur and Andrew Pessin 236

18. Colonel Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, Australia, March 11, 2015 / Jan Poddebsky, Peter Keeda, and Clive Kessler 253

19. “Oh! Now I’ve Got You!”: In the Sights of Anti-Israelists at the Claremont Colleges / Yaron Raviv 266

20. The Magic of Myth: Fashioning the BDS Narrative in the New Anthropology / David M. Rosen 280

21. Retaliation: The High Price of Speaking Out about Campus Antisemitism and What It Means for Jewish Students / Tammi Rossman-Benjamin 298

22. A Field Geologist in Politicized Terrain / Jill S. Schneiderman 317

23. Fanatical Anti-Zionism and the Degradation of the University: What I Have Learned in Buffalo / Ernest Sternberg 333

24. What Is It like to Be an (Assertive) Israeli Academic Abroad? / Elhanan Yakira 348

II. Students’ Essays

25. A Wake-Up Call at the University of Michigan / Jesse Arm 357

26. On Leaving the University of California, Los Angeles, Due to Hostile and Unsafe Campus Climate / Milan Chatterjee 363

27. Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions and Antisemitism at Stanford University / Molly Horwitz 366

28. On Being Pro-Israel, and Jewish, at Oberlin College / Eliana Kohn 372

29. Battling Anti-Zionism at City University of New York John Jay College / Tomer Kornfeld 379

30. Students for Justice in Palestine at Brown University / Jared Samilow 384

31. Battling Anti-Zionism at the University of Missouri / Daniel Swindell 390

III. Concluding Thoughts 32

Inconclusive, Unscientific Postscript: On the Purpose of the University, and a Ray of Hope / Andrew Pessin 401

Index 409