Middle East studies in the News

Israel and Academic Freedom [incl. Middle East Studies Association]

by Scott Jaschik
Inside Higher Ed
August 31, 2009

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/31/gordon

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8194

Neve Gordon has no illusions about the ability of Palestinian terrorists to harm Israelis. In 1986, while serving as a paratrooper on Israel's border with Lebanon, he suffered severe injuries from hand grenades and bullets.

These days, Gordon is under a very different kind of attack -- one that he and other Israeli academics say endangers the state of academic freedom in their country. Gordon is the chair of politics at Ben-Gurion University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame and publishes widely in Israel and the United States -- with much of his writing critical of his country's government. Ten days ago, he published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in which he called Israel an "apartheid state" and called for an international boycott of Israel to push the creation of a Palestinian state.

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