Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign: Academic Freedom and the Palestinian Academic Boycott

The academic boycott against Israeli academics is often justified on the basis of Israeli human rights violations. Against this reasoning this article defends a politics of academic boycott in a narrower, self-contained sense, which is based on the traditional idea of the academic community as a tru...

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Published in:Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Main Author: Leist, Anton 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Univ. Press [2017]
In: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
IxTheo Classification:KBL Near East and North Africa
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
ZF Education
Further subjects:B Academic Community
B Academic Freedom
B Academic Boycott
B Holocaust Denial
B Human Rights
B Israel
B Academic Complicity
B PACBI
B Palestine
B Freedom of speech
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Summary:The academic boycott against Israeli academics is often justified on the basis of Israeli human rights violations. Against this reasoning this article defends a politics of academic boycott in a narrower, self-contained sense, which is based on the traditional idea of the academic community as a truth-directed social collective. Against postmodern critics this idea is defended by recourse to Charles Peirce's idea of the scientific community. With this idea of academic freedom in hand Judith Butler and the PACBI appeal for the boycott are criticised. Also, a more precise criterion as to when academics can be seen to be ‘complicit' with an evil politics is suggested in the essay.
ISSN:2054-1996
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3366/hlps.2017.0166