Middle East studies in the News

On Israel, Shifted Ground [incl. Sondra Hale]

by Elizabeth Redden
Inside Higher Ed
March 6, 2009

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/06/israel

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/7012

The ground seems to have shifted, activists on all sides say. What they make of it varies.

A shift toward more visible pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel sentiment has been profound on some campuses, prompted, in part, by the winter war in Gaza. Where some describe a corresponding disintegration of civil discourse or a scapegoating of Israel for a complex set of problems, others celebrate a newfound space in which to be critical of Israel -- to mount a challenge to what they see as a dominant discourse, so to speak.

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