{"id":1980,"date":"2013-02-04T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T05:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2013-02-04T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T05:17:18","slug":"academic-freedom-under-attack-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/04\/academic-freedom-under-attack-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic freedom under attack in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklyn.cuny.edu\/web\/academics\/schools\/socialsciences\/undergraduate\/polisci.php\">Political Science Department<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklyn.cuny.edu\/web\/home.php\">Brooklyn College<\/a> is co-sponsoring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/event\/3685\">a panel discussion<\/a> about the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdsmovement.net\/\"> BDS Movement<\/a> (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel this Thursday Feburary 7th.  The event features <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omar_Barghouti\">Omar Barghouti<\/a>, BDS co-founder  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egs.edu\/faculty\/judith-butler\/biography\/\">Judith Butler<\/a>, prominent philosopher.  The college has come under widespread attack for its hosting of the event, with a coalition of New York City councillors <a href=\"http:\/\/coreyrobin.com\/2013\/02\/03\/nyc-council-threatens-to-withdraw-if-poli-sci-doesnt-withdraw-cosponsorship\/\">threatening to defund the school.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Green Greenwald has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/feb\/02\/brooklyn-college-bds-alan-dershowitz\">exhaustive analysis of the controversy<\/a> and identifies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/brooklyn-college-anti-israel-hatefest-article-1.1250553?localLinksEnabled=false\">Alan Dershowitz<\/a> as its orchestrator.<br \/>\nChris Hayes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/46979738\/ns\/msnbc-up_with_chris_hayes\/#50683952\">discussed it this morning<\/a> (starts at 1:30).<br \/>\nCorey Robin, professor at Brooklyn College, compares the current controversy to the <a href=\"http:\/\/coreyrobin.com\/2013\/02\/03\/the-question-of-palestine-at-brooklyn-college-then-and-now\/\">historically prominent anti-zionism of BC professor Hannah Arendt<\/a> way back in 1942.<br \/>\nBrooklyn College president Karen L. Gould<a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2013\/01\/brooklyn-forward-explains.html\"> insists the event will go forward.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?a=sBVXKFIjLms:ODEm6XNBMZ8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?i=sBVXKFIjLms:ODEm6XNBMZ8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via MetaFilter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/124570\/Academic-freedom-under-attack-in-NYC\">http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/124570\/Academic-freedom-under-attack-in-NYC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Science Department at Brooklyn College is co-sponsoring a panel discussion about the BDS Movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel this Thursday Feburary 7th. The event features Omar Barghouti, BDS co-founder and Judith Butler, prominent philosopher. The college has come under widespread attack for its hosting of the event, with a coalition of New &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/04\/academic-freedom-under-attack-in-nyc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Academic freedom under attack in NYC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,841,79],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ifttt","tag-mek","tag-metafilter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-vW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}