Hate Speech and Academic Freedom - The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles

This book reveals the damage that antisemitism does to the identity of Jewish students, staff, and faculty. It details the challenges we face, then proposes specific ways to meet them.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Does Academic Freedom Protect Antisemitism?
2. Social Media, Anti-Zionism, and the End of Academic Freedom
3. Academic Freedom and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
4. Is BDS Antisemitic?
5. The “Word Crimes” Debate: Assaulting Civility and Academic Freedom
6. Secular Versus Religious Anti-Zionism
7. The Valentina Azarova File: Should a University Hire an Anti-Zionist as a Senior Administrator?
8. Adopted but under Assault: The Status Of The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
9. Antisemitism and the IHRA Working Definition at University College London

Conclusion: Augmented Debate

References
Notes
Index
About the Author

About the author

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or editor of 36 books. He served as national president of the American Association of University Professors and is currently Chair of the Alliance for Academic Freedom.

Summary

Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Hate Speech and Academic Freedom takes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide. It is the first book to ask what impact antisemitism has had on the fundamental principles the academy relies on for its identity—academic freedom, free speech rights, standards for hiring or firing faculty members and administrators, and the ethics of academic conduct and debate. Antisemitic hatred is spreading at a fever pitch. What steps can counter it? What damage to students is done when departments embrace anti-Zionism? Should faculty members face consequences for promoting antisemitism on social media? Should universities make a new push to adopt the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism?

Product details

• Authors: Cary Nelson
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.04.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9798887194202
• ISBN: 979-8-88719-420-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, EDUCATION / History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Judaism / History, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Judaism: life & practice, Judaism, History of Education, Religious issues & debates, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Religious freedom / freedom of worship, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher