The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (G - Reference,information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)

Synopsis

The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today’s college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine. Some pro-Palestinian students call supporters of Israel's right to exist racist, and disrupt their events. Some pro-Israel students label pro-Palestinian students terrorists, and the Jews among them traitors. Lawsuits are filed. Legislation is proposed. Faculty members are blacklisted and receive death threats. Academic freedom is compromised and the entire academic enterprise is threatened. How did we get here and what can be done? In this passionate book, Kenneth S. Stern examines attempts from each side to censor the other at a time when some say students, rather than being challenged to wrestle with difficult issues and ideas, are being quarantined from them. He uniquely frames the examination: our ability to think rationally is inhibited when our identity is fiercely connected to an issue of perceived social justice or injustice, and our proclivity to see in-groups and out-groups – us versus them – is obvious. According to Stern, the campus is the best place to mine this conflict and our intense views about it to help future generations do what they are supposed to do: think. The Conflict over the Conflict shows how this is possible.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781487536107

Related ISBNs:

9781487507367, 9781487525057

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

Date of Addition:

07/06/20

Copyrighted By:

Kenneth S. Stern

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education, Social Studies, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Foreword by:

Nadine Strossen