Night of horror at Ben Gurion airport for two French music students
We are two students, both studying musicology at the Université Paris 8 and in the CRR 93 at Aubervilliers and the CRD at Gennevilliers [translator’s note: all located in the….
Category: Columns
Why Is a Notorious Free-Speech Censor Being Given a Platform at a Major Academic Gathering?
Leading intellectuals are outraged that Monique Canto-Sperber, who famously quashed two events sponsored by Israel critics, is being given the stage to discuss “freedom of speech.”
Divestment politics, Stanford-style: Will a strong identification with a group affect one’s fair-mindedness?
Religious identity, threats of anti-Semitism, conflict of interest muddy the waters of campus divestment debate
Talal Asad: Why do I support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement?
[ Savage Minds is honored to publish this essay by Talal Asad. He teaches anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and specializes on religion and politics in the Middle East and Europe.]
Business of backlash: GOP cashes in on Koch/Adelson anti-BDS donations
As the BDS movement grows, the flow of money to stop it increases — and Republicans spot a “winning issue”
“We are Farid!”: An open letter to French university administrators: Stop silencing advocates for Palestinian Rights!
“I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be….
At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like
When a Palestinian woman went to this Jewish group’s annual conference, she found a growing movement of Jews and other allies.
The dismal lives of students locked in Israeli prison
Throughout Palestine, prisons are a major site in which the struggle for education, among other basic human rights, is tirelessly waged. Roughly 20% of Palestinians have been incarcerated, constituting as….
A Call for Academic Freedom
We the undersigned are shocked and bewildered to learn that the University of Rome 3 withdrew from hosting an important academic conference on topical and important issues such as conflicts,….
The Academic Boycott : American success vs. French censorship
Last month’s murders at Charlie Hebdo have revealed a paradox in French attitudes to freedom of expression. On the one hand, French public pronouncements display a rhetorical attachment to unlimited….