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September 7, 2022
Three Decades of University Cancel Culture and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
The fault line dividing the old oppressive order from the new progressive one ran decisively through Palestine.
In 1989, Donna Robinson Divine found herself being interrogated by a diversity officer at Smith College—then a brand-new position—for asking a final-exam question about the role of Islam in Middle Eastern politics and, as Robinson puts it, “mentioning slavery in the Muslim world without comparing it (favorably) to the system in America.” At the time, Divine, as a tenured professor, was able to avoid punishment, but since then she has witnessed academic freedom narrowed, while the scope of what ideas are deemed offensive grows ever wider. She observes the key place discussions of the Israel-Palestinians conflict have played in this trend:
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Three Decades of University Cancel Culture and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
The fault line dividing the old oppressive order from the new progressive one ran decisively through Palestine.
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