We Will Not Be Silenced

The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics

Preface by Richard Falk Foreword by Cynthia McKinney Edited by William I Robinson, Maryam S Griffin

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Publication date:

20 January 2017

Publisher

Pluto Press

ISBN-13: 9781786800435

As criticism continues to mount over Israel's violation of Palestinian human rights and of international law, campaigns to silence and repress those who speak out against Israeli apartheid have grown alarmingly.

College and university campuses across the United States now find themselves centre stage in this conflict over free speech: targeted by the Israel 'lobby' for the critical content of their scholarship, academics have been turned away from jobs, denied tenure and promotion, rejected for funding, and even expelled from institutions, while student groups like the 'Irvine 11' have faced harassment and sanctions.

From establishment figures like Richard Falk and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, to professors, postgraduates and activist alumni, We Will Not Be Silenced contains thirteen testimonials from those whose struggle to defend their academic freedom has garnered widespread public and international attention.

Foreword by Cynthia McKinney
Preface by Richard A. Falk
Introduction: Academic Repression on US University Campuses - William I. Robinson and Maryam S. Griffin
1. The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics - David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi
2. They Shoot Tenure, Don’t They?: How I Crossed the Borders of Acceptable Academic Discourse on Holocaust Film and the Question of Palestine, and Never Came Back - Terri Ginsberg
3. My Ordeal with the Israel Lobby and the University of California - William I. Robinson
4. The Irvine 11: Power, Punishment, and Perseverance - Taher Herzallah with Osama Shabaik
5. A Problem Grows in Brooklyn - Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
6. Speaking Truth to Power: Advocating for Justice in/for Palestine - Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
7. Hanlon’s Razor Cuts Both Ways - David Delgado Shorter
8. The Intolerability of Intolerance - Persis Karim
9. Responding to Columbia University’s McCarthyism: Excerpts of Statement on March 14, 2005 to Columbia University Ad Hoc Grievance Committee - Joseph Massad
10. A Multiyear Zionist Censorship Campaign - David Klein
11. Some Thoughts on Facts, Politics, and Tenure - Nadia Abu El-Haj
12. Censoring and Sanctioning Students for Justice in Palestine - Max Geller
13. A So-called Self-hating, Anti-Semitic Jew Speaks Out - Lisa Rofel
14. Interrupted Destinies: Before and After and Forthwith - Steven Salaita
List of Resources
Notes on Contributors
Index

'These testimonials provide a stunning and all too familiar portrait of the extent to which the forces that suppress free speech and academic freedom are at work in the U.S. university system'