In the wake of the public apology issued last week by two editors of the publication Israel Studies, who were responding to the uproar over a special issue that dissects the language employed in anti-Zionist scholarship, Donna Robinson Divine, Miriam Elman and Asaf Romirowsky---co-editors of “Word Crimes: Reclaiming the Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"---are setting the record straight.
As they put it, “The special issue struck a chord – sales have been brisk and it’s now in a second printing – not only because it raised questions about the conventional discourse but also because it challenged the right of an increasingly politicized academy to serve as gatekeepers, determining what can and cannot be said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
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