Antisemitism in Academia

Vortrag von Edward Beck, Gründer der "Schollars for Peace in the Middle East" (auf Englisch)

Wann: Mi., 5.11.08, 19.30

Wo: Neues Institutsgebäude, Hörsaal II

Anti-Semitism in academia is nothing new. Jews were routinely discriminated against with quotas and discrimination in terms of positions at institutions, tenure and promotion and other academic activities.

With the establishment of the state of Israel, the 1967 war and the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978, a new strain of anti-Semitism has gained popularity. The convergence of three events cast Israel as an illegitimate state, a colonialist power and unwelcomed presence in what many consider Palestine as part of a greater Arabia. Born of the progressive humanitarian movement of Zionism, Israel was created by the UN to fulfill the promise of a humane egalitarian homeland for the Jews. Traditional anti-Semites, joined by many academics, now express their anti-Semitism by delegitimizing Israel’s right to exist and defend itself after 60 years of declared war from its Arab neighbors and by declaring “Zionism is Racism.”

Eine Veranstaltung der STV Politikwissenschaft und SPME