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BOOK INFORMATION: Book available: 11/3/14Recommended review date: 1/5/15
6 x 9, 552 Pages, 4 IllustrationsPaperback: $34.99ISBN 9780990331605E-Book:ISBN 9780990331612
The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel Edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm
How should we understand the international debate about the future of Israel and the Palestinians? Can justice be achieved in the Middle East? Until now, there was no single place for people to go to find
detailed scholarly essays analyzing proposals to boycott Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement of which they are a part.
This book for the first time provides the historical background necessary for informed evaluation of one of the most controversial issues of our day— the struggle between two peoples living side-by-side but with conflicting views of history and conflicting national ambitions. This book encourages empathy for all parties, but it also takes a cold look at what solutions are realistic and possible. In doing so, it tackles issues, like the role of anti-Semitism in calls for the abolition of the Jewish state, that many have found impossible to confront until now. The book gathers essays by an international cohort of scholars from Britain, Israel, and the United States.
Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the immediate past president of the American Association of University Professors. His thirty authored or edited books include No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom.
Gabriel Noah Brahm is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, co-author of The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud and Marx and co-editor of Prosthetic Territories: Politics and Hypertechnologies.
Contributors Include:Russell Berman, Emily Budick, Michael Bérubé, David Caplan, Donna Divine, Rachel S. Harris, Dr. David Hirsch, Nancy Koppelman, Richard Landes, Kenneth Marcus, Marthan Nussbaum, Sabah Salih, Kenneth Stein, Ilan Troen, Shira Wolosky, Mitchell Cohen, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Samuel Edelman, Alan Johnson, Michael Kotzin, Sharon Musher, Asaf Romirowsky, Paul Berman, Carol Edelman, Robert Fine, Jeff Robbins
"What is the Academic BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement really all about? What is the relation, if any, of anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism? What are the historical, ethical, and political parameters of the current controversy over BDS on our campuses—a controversy that has, thus far, generated more heat than light? The editors of this book have brought together a set of thirty essays by leading scholars and public intellectuals—essays as stunning as they are wide-ranging, as remarkably well-informed and factually based as they are closely reasoned and persuasive. From the opening essays on academic freedom through the richly nuanced essays by Israeli academics currently teaching in mixed Arab-Israeli classrooms to the historical timeline, the case against Academic Boycott is made with such authority that no one who cares about global politics in the 21st Century can afford not to read these pages. This is that rare event—a necessary book, a real game-changer."-Marjorie Perloff, Professor eMerita of english at stanford University
Contact for interviews:
Cary Nelson: 217-356-0649 or
Gabriel Brahm: (+972) 54-593-8086 or
