Jewish academics enable anti-Zionism while ignoring antisemitic root

Jewish academics enable anti-Zionism while ignoring antisemitic root

Yes, proud Jews can theoretically oppose Zionism, but they’ve got to “do the work” to repudiate the Jew-hating Palestinians programmed into the pro-Palestinian movement.

Maura Finkelstein on Academic Freedom, Jewish, Zionism, and Palestine

Host Faramarz Farbod talks with Dr. Maura Finkelstein, writer, ethnographer, anthropologist, and author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (DUP 2019). Dr. Finkelstein was falsely accused of antisemitism and fired last May (2024) from her teaching position at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. We talk about the state of academic freedom, classrooms as ethnographic spaces, decanonization, being Jewish and anti-Zionist in th…