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May 21, 2019

When It Comes to Israel, Dissenters Must Face an Academic Mob

A respected journal questions orthodoxies, and professors rush to censor it.

After finding that a recent special issue of the scholarly journal Israel Studies questioned certain academic orthodoxies, a few professors wrote an open letter and garnered over 100 signatures from colleagues condemning the journal’s editors and demanding that the issue of the journal be retracted completely. To Andrew Pessin, this reaction demonstrates that the letter’s authors and not the journal’s authors are the ones seeking to undermine scholarly norms:

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