{"id":12485,"date":"2014-03-06T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2014-03-06T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:48:11","slug":"12485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2014\/03\/06\/12485\/","title":{"rendered":"butler open letter on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full text of Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi’s open letter condemning censorship of Israel critics<\/a><\/p>\n

Whether one is for or against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a means to change the current situation in Palestine-Israel, it is important to recognize that boycotts are internationally affirmed and constitutionally protected forms of political expression. As non-violent instruments to effect political change, boycotts cannot be outlawed without trampling on a constitutionally protected right to political speech. Those who support boycotts ought not to become subject to retaliation, surveillance, or censorship when they choose to express their political viewpoint, no matter how offensive that may be to those who disagree.<\/p>\n

We are now witnessing accelerating efforts to curtail speech, to exercise censorship, and to carry out retaliatory action against individuals on the basis of their political views or associations, notably support for BDS. We ask cultural and educational institutions to have the courage and the principle to stand for, and safeguard, the very principles of free expression and the free exchange of ideas that make those institutions possible. This means refusing to accede to bullying, intimidation, and threats aimed at silencing speakers because of their actual or perceived political views. It also means refusing to impose a political litmus test on speakers and artists when they are invited to speak or show their work. We ask that educational and cultural institutions recommit themselves to upholding principles of open debate, and to remain venues for staging expressions of an array of views, including controversial ones. Only by refusing to become vehicles for censorship and slander, and rejecting blacklisting, intimidation, and discrimination against certain viewpoints, can these institutions live up to their purpose as centers of learning and culture.<\/p>\n

Judith Butler
\nProfessor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley<\/p>\n

Rashid Khalidi
\nEdward Said Professor in Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University<\/p>\n

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\nEtienne Balibar, Emeritus Professor, Paris-Nanterre
\nWendy Brown, UC Berkeley
\nSusan Buck-Morss Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
\nEduardo Cadava, Princeton University
\nLisa Duggan, Professor, New York University
\nKathy E. Ferguson, Professor, Departments of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Hawai’i
\nPaul Gilroy, London
\nNaomi Klein, Author and Journalist
\nJacqueline Rose, Professor of English, Queen Mary University of London
\nJoan W Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
\nProfessor Lynne Segal, University of London
\nWallace Shawn, Writer
\nMarianne Hirsch, Professor, Columbia University
\nUdi Aloni, Filmmaker and writer
\nAmy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
\nSaba Mahmood, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor
\nChandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University
\nDavid Palumbo-Liu
\nLouise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford
\nBruce Robbins, Columbia University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Full text of Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi’s open letter condemning censorship of Israel critics Whether one is for or against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a means to change the current situation in Palestine-Israel, it is important to recognize that boycotts are internationally affirmed and constitutionally protected forms of political expression. As non-violent … Continue reading “butler open letter on Israel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12487,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}