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
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