TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAUL BERMAN, “Preface”
CARY NELSON, “Introduction”
I. Opposing Boycotts as a Matter of Principle
- AAUP, “On Academic Boycotts”
- MARTHA NUSSBAUM, “Against Academic Boycotts”
- RUSSELL A. BERMAN, “The Boycott as an Infringement on Academic
Culture”
- CARY NELSON, “The Fragility of Academic Freedom”
- GABRIEL NOAH BRAHM and ASAF ROMIROWSKY, “In Intent, If Not in
Effect: The Failure of BDS”
- EMILY BUDICK, “When a Boycott is Not Moral Action but Social
Conformity and the ‘Affectation of Love’”
II. The American Studies Association
- SHARON ANN MUSHER, “The Closing of the American Studies
Association’s Mind”
- DAVID HIRSH, “The American Studies Association Boycott Resolution,
Academic Freedom, and the Myth of the Institutional Boycott”
- MICHAEL BERUBE, “Boycott Bubkes: The Murky Logic of the ASA’s
Resolution Against Israel”
- DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE, “The Boycott Debate at Smith”
III. The BDS Movement, the Left, and American Culture
- SABAH A. SALIH, “Islam, BDS, and the West”
- Mitchell Cohen, “Anti-Semitism and the Left That Doesn’t Learn”
- CARY NELSON, “The Problem With Judith Butler: The Philosophy
of the Movement to Boycott Israel”
- NANCY KOPPELMAN, “When you want to do something, join us!”:
The Limits of the Social Justice Mandate in Higher Education”
- TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN, “Interrogating the Academic
Boycotters of Israel on American Campuses”
- SAMUEL M. EDELMAN and CAROL F. S. EDELMAN, “When Failure
Succeeds: Divestment as Delegitimation”
- KENNETH MARCUS, “Is BDS Anti-Semitic?”
- ALAN JOHNSON, “Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology
and the creation of the Anti-Zionist Subject”
- DAVID CAPLAN, “Imaginary Jews”
- RICHARD LANDES, “Fatal Attraction: The Shared Antichrist of the
Global Progressive Left and Jihad”
IV. The Israeli Context
- ILAN TROEN, “The Campaign to Boycott Israeli Universities:
Historical and Ideological Sources”
- RACHEL S. HARRIS, “No Place Like Home: Arab-Israelis,
Contemporary Fiction, and an Arab-Hebrew Identity”
- SHIRA WOLOSKY, “Teaching in Transnational Israel: An Ethics
of Difference”
- RACHEL FISH, “The Bi-nationalist Fantasy within Academia”
- ILAN TROEN, “The Israeli-Palestinian Relationship in Higher
Education: Evidence from the Field”
V. A Concise History of Israel
- CARY NELSON, RACHEL S. HARRIS, and KENNETH W. STEIN,
“The History of Israel”
VI. A Boycott Dossier
- Boycott Resolutions by Academic Associations
- Letter from ASA Members / Letter from ASA Presidents
- SONYA MICHEL & JEFFREY HERF, “Open Letter to a
University President”
- MICHAEL C. KOTZIN, “Politics and the Modern Language
Association: Reflections Before and After the MLA Vote”
- JEFF ROBBINS, “MLA Vote: Will Bias Beat Scholarship?”
- ROBERT FINE, “Speaking in Opposition”
- Online Resources
Endnotes
Notes on Contributors
Index
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