#Harvard Law Review voted to censor what would have been its first blog by a Palestinian scholar—specifically, an editor said, because people “might oppose or be offended by it.”
@dell
Thank you for posting this.
Folx, if you care or have thoughts about what is happening in Gaza, please read this in its entirety. Then consider the censorship that has happened and continues to happen across western media & everywhere information is shared and dispersed: our governmental & educational institutions, in public, private and non profit orgs.
If we cant talk about it and dont learn about it, those in power think maybe we can pretend it isnt happening.
@dell Placing the essay's opening paragraph (below) in dialogue with the process described above it as backstory leads to an indictment so on the nose as to feel remarkable.
I was led to believe that "academic freedom" was about being able to publish unpopular ideas in the face of political repression. To speak Truth to Power, as it were, not to coddle injustices or comfort the bourgeoisie.
This paragraph must have scared them to their cores:
"As Edward Said reminds us, Zionism must be assessed from the standpoint of its victims, not its beneficiaries. Zionism can be simultaneously understood as a national movement for some Jews and a colonial project for Palestinians. The making of Israel in Palestine took the form of consolidating Jewish national life at the expense of shattering a Palestinian one. For those displaced, misplaced, bombed, and dispossessed, Zionism is never a story of Jewish emancipation; it is a story of Palestinian subjugation."
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