Because They Took a Clear Look at the Terms Used by Anti-Zionist Professors, They’ve Been Smeared
The uproar over “Word Crimes” continues.
August 7, 2019
Because They Took a Clear Look at the Terms Used by Anti-Zionist Professors, They’ve Been Smeared
The uproar over “Word Crimes” continues.
Recently the scholars Donna Robinson Divine, Miriam F. Elman, and Asaf Romirowsky became curious about the ways in which anti-Zionist academics have turned previously neutral terms and ideas relating to the Israel-Palestinian conflict into weapons for pillorying the Jewish state. So they solicited essays on the subject and published them, under the title “Word Crimes,” in a special issue of the journal Israel Studies. Almost immediately the special issue, the contributors to it, and the three editors were assaulted in the most vociferous terms. As they report:
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