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It Was Inevitable...An Entirely Predictable (Entirely Dishonest) Zionist Attack

Exactly as if it had been read by a hasbara bot, my Academe piece, "Not All Is Well That Ends Well," which championed academic freedom, was swiftly greeted by a smear of "hypocrisy" on the misinformed and erroneous grounds that my support for the Palestinian BDS movement is inconsistent with support for academic freedom.

Here is the attack, from--I am told--a "very famous" legal scholar, Steven Lubet of Northwestern Law School.

And here is my response, graciously published on the same website that published Lubet's attack piece.

It is worth noting that Professor Lubet previously published a hit job in The Chicago Tribune against  Steven Salaita.

We might think of someone like Lubet as the pseudo-intellectual arm of and cover for the Canary Mission.  And as I wrote to him in an email, the smears he and others of his ilk make against BDS and its advocates are responsible, in turn, for fostering the sort of democracy-crushing laws discussed in this excellent op-ed in the NY Times, "We're a Small Arkansas Newspaper. Why Is the State Making Us Sign a Pledge About Israel" by Alan Leveritt.

I have asked Professor Lubet to acknowledge that he mis-read and mis-represented my BDS views and the BDS movement.  To date, crickets.  So much for any genune interest in the open debate that is the very purpose of academic freedom and free speech rights.
 







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  1. AnonymousApril 25, 2023 at 10:29 AM

    After reading both pieces, i’m with Professor Lubet. You seem to lack any sense of context and see things from a single perspective. This leads to your biased approach where you cannot see the larger plot.

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