PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE—CONTRASTING AGENDAS: BOYCOTT VERSUS PEACEBUILDING
I THE GOALS AND TACTICS OF THE BOYCOTT MOVEMENT
II FIVE COMPONENTS OF A PEACE PLAN
PART TWO—FOUR BDS FACULTY PORTRAITS
III JUDITH BUTLER: A Philosopher Promotes a One-State Fantasy
IV STEVEN SALAITA: The Fluid Line Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
V SAREE MAKDISI: Criminalizing Israeli Law and Culture
VI JASBIR PUAR: Obsessive Demonology as a Research Agenda
PART THREE—TEACHING FOR EMPATHY OR HOSTILITY
VII ANTI-ZIONIST HOSTILITY:
Teaching to Delegitimate the Jewish State
VIII PEDAGOGY AS EMPATHY:
Teaching Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian Poetry Together
PART FOUR—CHALLENGES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND IN PALESTINE
IX A FACULTY GROUP ORGANIZES A BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN
X ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES
XI THE CASE FOR COORDINATED UNILATERAL WITHDRAWL FROM THE WEST BANK: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm
AFTERWORD
Where BDS is Headed in the Academy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
Cary Nelson is author or editor of over 30 books, including studies of modern poetry and the politics of higher education, Nelson's most recent book is Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel.
The book completely discredits BDS by demonstrating in devastating
detail how much it corrupts academic standards and undermines the
chances for peace. With its more than 400 pages of text, some 50
pages of notes, and an extensive bibliography, the book not only
reflects Nelson's longstanding concern about the corrosive effects
of BDS activism, but also his vast experience and erudition as a
prolific scholar whose academic career spans almost five
decades.
*The Algemeiner*
After Nelson's book, no one should be able to take the work of the
BDS professors seriously, given their reliance on propagandistic
lies. Cary Nelson's Israel is not the mythic realm of demons
fantasized by BDS advocates but an actual place that contains signs
of hope.
*David Mikics, Tablet*
Nelson has written a very good book: clear, judicious, and
exemplary in its concern for reason and evidence.
*Fathom*
Israel Denial is an epic response to BDS and its
pseudo-intellectual underpinnings.
*elder of Ziyon*
Israel Denial seeks to take the rug out from beneath the feet of
scholars pushing vilification of Israel and promoting
discrimination against Israeli institutions by discriminating
against Israeli faculty and students. This is an important book for
those who want to be equipped with fighting what is called academic
BDS.
*Israel Diaries*
[T]his book fills a desperate need—the need to expose the bigotry
of the anti-Israel academy and the thinly veiled fictions they
propagate.
*Commentary*
Israel Denial is a staggering work of rigorous intellectual inquiry
that helps us understand how a deep anti-Israel animus in academia
has fueled the rise of intersectionality as a movement to isolate
and exclude Jews.
*Jewish Journal*
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