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Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom by Rebecca Ruth Gould
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bookishmillennial's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
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*purchased ebook via @versobooks
I work in academia and we often encounter the “free speech” debate, when it comes to faculty social media behavior, guest speakers’ political beliefs, and more. You could call it our cyclical academia discourse. It’s indeed a hot topic!
It’s obviously being brought up again as we navigate having a strong Jewish presence on our main campus especially (in Pennsylvania; I work at a smaller graduate-level campus in California) & these have been tough waters to wade in for everyone. It’s funny because I have to clarify that all views represented on this page are not representative of my university & that they are simply my *own* & that is a topic that Gould brings up in this book.
Rebecca lived in Palestine for a bit & witnessed the apartheid, only strengthening her support for Palestinian freedom. However, this book is not only about that. It’s about how so many folks in academia especially have lost their jobs due to questioning the Israeli government and army. It’s about academic freedom, which relates to freedom of speech, and how it doesn’t mean shit if the oppressed have zero semblance of freedom of *anything* at all. Palestinians’ freedom of speech comes with major risks; their freedom of speech is not protected or encouraged.
Some parts of this book can read as an academic journal that you’d find on the JSTOR archive, so maybe it’s not as readable/accessible/of interest to everybody, but if you’re a fellow academic or just someone who is interested in a book about academic freedom, and how silencing folks operates as a way of ultimately silencing Palestinians, please read this.
And please don’t stop talking about 🍉
*purchased ebook via @versobooks
I work in academia and we often encounter the “free speech” debate, when it comes to faculty social media behavior, guest speakers’ political beliefs, and more. You could call it our cyclical academia discourse. It’s indeed a hot topic!
It’s obviously being brought up again as we navigate having a strong Jewish presence on our main campus especially (in Pennsylvania; I work at a smaller graduate-level campus in California) & these have been tough waters to wade in for everyone. It’s funny because I have to clarify that all views represented on this page are not representative of my university & that they are simply my *own* & that is a topic that Gould brings up in this book.
Rebecca lived in Palestine for a bit & witnessed the apartheid, only strengthening her support for Palestinian freedom. However, this book is not only about that. It’s about how so many folks in academia especially have lost their jobs due to questioning the Israeli government and army. It’s about academic freedom, which relates to freedom of speech, and how it doesn’t mean shit if the oppressed have zero semblance of freedom of *anything* at all. Palestinians’ freedom of speech comes with major risks; their freedom of speech is not protected or encouraged.
Some parts of this book can read as an academic journal that you’d find on the JSTOR archive, so maybe it’s not as readable/accessible/of interest to everybody, but if you’re a fellow academic or just someone who is interested in a book about academic freedom, and how silencing folks operates as a way of ultimately silencing Palestinians, please read this.
And please don’t stop talking about 🍉
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Classism, Hate crime, and Racism
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