Why Israeli Arabs Should Drop Their Political Parties
A choice between embracing and rejecting modernity.
September 20, 2017
Propaganda vs. scholarship.
Over the past year, the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS) has faced a series of setbacks in its efforts to turn Israeli scholars into pariahs in the academic world. The refreshing success of BDS’s opponents, writes Jonathan Marks, comes primarily from convincing professors “that BDS is not only unjust to Israel . . . but also damaging to the academic enterprise, for which BDS seeks to substitute propagandizing”:
A choice between embracing and rejecting modernity.
Propaganda vs. scholarship.
A “mind-boggling” ruling.
Could it because they lacked a national identity?
Reading the Torah and blowing the shofar.
Over the past year, the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS) has faced a series of setbacks in its efforts to turn Israeli scholars into pariahs in the academic world. The refreshing success of BDS’s opponents, writes Jonathan Marks, comes primarily from convincing professors “that BDS is not only unjust to Israel . . . but also damaging to the academic enterprise, for which BDS seeks to substitute propagandizing”:
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