Posts Tagged: judith butler
The Voices of BDS
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement's biggest success is rooted in its 'soft power.' The ability to influence behavior through values, policies,...
Brooklyn College Criticizes Itself Over Anti-Israel Event
This past February, in the final act of Brooklyn College's BDS fiasco, four Jewish students were kicked out of the talk. (Brooklyn's Political Science Department...
Investigation: Jewish Students Were Unjustly Evicted from Brooklyn College BDS Event
After a two month investigation into the circumstances surrounding the expulsion of four Jewish students from a BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) event aimed at...
Germans Lurching Towards Anti-Semitism
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, successive German governments have meticulously upheld their obligations to the Jewish people. Study of the Holocaust is a mandatory...
Lessons from Brooklyn College BDS, Barghouti, and Butler
Reader and correspondent David Lurie has directed me to some not well-publicized revelations about the Brooklyn College BDS event. To begin, the campus BDS chapter...
How Brooklyn College Legitimized BDS
The controversy over a "panel discussion" at Brooklyn College has little to do with free speech, and everything to do with politicization of...
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With...
Free Speech a Principle, Not an Instrument
One of the biggest challenges facing modern democracies is how to deal with anti-democratic movements that use the institutions of civil society to advance their...
Cynthia Ozick and William Shakespeare on Judith Butler: Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose
Will Judith Butler, who recently brought her frenzied campaign to expel Israel from the family of nations to Brooklyn College, be remembered as a latter-day...
Mayor Bloomberg Says BDS Apostles Should Speak at Brooklyn College
Times of Israel - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday spoke up for academic freedom amid controversy over an event at a public college,...
Defending Judith Butler in the Ivory Tower
The controversy that erupted when it became known that the prominent American post-structuralist philosopher Judith Butler will be awarded Frankfurt's prestigious Theodor Adorno Prize has...
Impenetrable: The Hollow Rhetoric of Judith Butler
That title appears a contradiction. We think of the impenetrable as dense, so thick and compacted it cannot be pierced. But what is hollow is...
Judith Butler and the Theodor Adorno Prize
Judith Butler, who will receive Frankfurt's coveted Theodor Adorno Prize on September 11, 2012, came to prominence as an anti- Israel agitator almost a decade...
Frankfurt to Award Professor Who Called Hamas, Hezbollah Progressive (VIDEO)
The city of Frankfurt is set to award its prestigious Theodor Adorno prize to Professor Judith Butler, an avid proponent and supporter of boycotting Israeli...
