- THE UNIVERSITY, FREE SPEECH, AND BDS Edited by ANDREW PESSIN and DORON S. BEN-ATAR INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents Acknowledgments xiii Introduction and Overview: The Silencing/ Andrew Pessin and Doron S. Ben-Atar 1 I. Scholars' Essays 1 BDS and Self-Righteous Moralists I Dan Avnon 43 2 Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas/ Julien Bauer 58 3 Bullies at the Pulpit/ Doron S. Ben-Atar 66 4 A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime I Corinne E. Blackmer 5 Slouching toward the City That Never Stops: How a 75 Left-OrientalistAnti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!)/ Gabriel Noah Brahm 83 6 On Radio Silence and the Video ThatSaved the Day: The Attack against Professor Dubnov at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego, 2012 / Shlomo Dubnov 91 7 Fraser versus the University College Union: A Personal Reflection I Ronnie Fraser 105 8 If You Are Not With Us: The National Women's Studies Association and Israel/ Janet Freedman 122 9 Rhodes University, Not a Home forAll: A Progressive Zionist's Two-Year Odyssey I Larissa Klazinga 134 10 Loud and Fast versus Slow and Quiet: Responses to Anti-Israel Activism on Campus/ JeffreyKopste in 142 X I Contents 11 A Controversy at Harvard / Martin Kramer 151 12 Attempts to Exclude Pro-Israel Views fromPro gressive Discourse: Some Case Studies fromAustralia / Philip Mendes 163 13 Anti-Israel Antisemitism in England/ Richard Millett 174 14 Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom / Cary Nelson 190 15 When Did We Abandon Academic Integrity for Academic Freedom?/ Denise Nussbaum 212 16 BDS and Zionophobic Racism / Judea Pearl 224 17 Friday, November 13, 2015, at the University of Texas, Austin: Anti-Zionists on the Attack/ Ami Pedahzur and Andrew Pessin 236 18 Colonel Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, Australia, March 11, 2015 I Jan Poddebsky, Peter Keeda, and Clive Kessler 253 19 "Oh! Now I've Got You!": In the Sights of Anti-Israelists at the Claremont Colleges / Yaron Raviv 266 20 The Magic of Myth: Fashioning the BDS Narrative in the New Anthropology/ David M. Rosen 280 21 Retaliation: The High Price of Speaking Out about Campus Antisemitism and What It Means forJewish Students/ Tammi Rossman-Benjamin 298 22 A Field Geologist in Politicized Terrain/ Jill S. Schneiderman 317 23 Fanatical Anti-Zionism and the Degradation of the University: What I Have Learned in Buffalo/ Ernest Sternberg 333 24 What Is It like to Be an (Assertive) Israeli Academic Abroad?/ Elhanan Yakira 348 II. Students' Essays 25 A Wake-Up Call at the University of Michigan/ Jesse Arm 357 26 On Leaving the University of California,Los Angeles, Due to Hostile and Unsafe Campus Climate / Milan Chatterjee 363 Contents xi 27 Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions and Antisemitism at Stanford University / Molly Horwitz 366 28 On Being Pro-Israel, and Jewish, at Oberlin College/ Eliana Kohn 372 29 Battling Anti-Zionism at City University of New York John Jay College/ Tomer Kornfeld 379 30 Students for Justice in Palestine at Brown University/ Jared Samilow 384 31 Battling Anti-Zionism at the University of Missouri / Daniel Swindell 390 III. Concluding Thoughts 32 Inconclusive, UnscientificPostscript: On the Purpose of the University, and a Ray of Hope / Andrew Pessin 401 Index 409 .