Apartheid Israel The Politics Of An Analogy – Sean Jacobs

Not coincidentally, an AIS faculty member, professor Robert Warrior, has cited a visit to Palestinian villages as an undergraduate and graduate study under Edward Said as formative intellectual influences.1 Over the past decade, AIS has been a small but mighty presence on our campus, fighting (among other things) the racist backlash among students, staff, alumni, and the local community to the reluctantly taken official decision to “retire” the university mascot, a caricature of Native American people locally known as “ The Chief.” In agreeing to join AIS, Professor Salaita had duly resigned his position at Virginia Tech University and prepared for the move to central Illinois.

His Virginia home had been sold and the moving van was literally in the driveway when he received a call from UIUC chancellor Phyllis Wise. She informed him that she was invoking a little-known, fine-print provision of UIUC academic job offers. The university’s board of directors has final approval of all academic contracts, and Chancellor Wise informed Professor Salaita that she had decided not to forward his employment contract to the board. Without its final approval his employment could not go through—and he was thus unemployed.

It has been shown that Chancellor Wise had been pressured into this decision by a pro-Zionist campaign that was mounted against Professor Salaita in the wake of his own series of messages on social media that passionately criticized the brutal Israeli crackdown in the Gaza Strip in 2014. Despite the fact that his presence and opinions in the world of social media were outside the classroom and the campus, and had nothing to do with his academic performance (he has no fewer than six books to his name) or his teaching (he had received stellar teaching evaluations at Virginia Tech), Chancellor Wise declared that she was acting to “protect” UIUC students who, she claimed, would now doubtless feel uncomfortable in his classrooms.2 As of this writing, Professor Salaita is suing UIUC for denying his rights of free speech and firing him without any kind of due process or appeal.

Chancellor Wise has stated that she wished she had consulted with more people on campus before she made her decision, but she and the university’s other top administrators have stuck by the decision to purge him from UIUC employment. Almost 20,000 people signed a change.org petition that demanded Professor Salaita’s reinstatement, and 1,200 academics around the world declared that they would have no further dealings with the University of Illinois until his job was restored.

In the US through Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, www.cbsd.com In the UK, Turnaround Publisher Services, www.turnaround-uk.com In Canada, Publishers Group Canada, www.pgcbooks.ca All other countries, Publishers Group Worldwide, www.pgw.com This book was published with the generous support of the Wallace Action Fund and Lannan Foundation. Cover design by Josh On. Printed in Canada by union labor. Library of Congress CIP Data is available. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 All royalties from this book will be donated to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

To donate to PACBI, please make your check payable to Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) and indicate PACBI in the reference line: Norcal FOSNA PO Box 9301 Berkeley, CA 94709 FOSNA is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization www.fosna.org 1kitap1.com/en Contents Foreword On Palestine Achille Mbembe Introduction Apartheid/Hafrada: South Africa, Israel, and the Politics of Historical Comparison Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs Chapter 1 Palestine Journey Ishtiyaq Shukri Chapter 2 Israel, the Apartheid Analogy, and the Labor Question Ran Greenstein Chapter 3 Solidarity with Palestine: Confronting the “Whataboutery” Argument and the Bantustan Denouement Salim Vally Chapter 4 Apartheid’s “Little Israel”: Bophuthatswana Arianna Lissoni Chapter 5 Neoliberal Apartheid Andy Clarno Chapter 6 Apartheid as Solution Bill Freund Chapter 7 The Historian and Apartheid T.

J. Tallie Chapter 8 Teach for Your Life Teresa Barnes Chapter 9 Along the Edges of Comparison Marissa J. Moorman Chapter 10 Academic Freedom and Academic Boycotts Shireen Hassim Chapter 11 Toward a Queer Palestine Kelly Gillespie Chapter 12 Cultural Weapons against Apartheid: Art, Artists, Cultural Boycotts M. Neelika Jayawardane Chapter 13 Apartheid’s Black Apologists Robin D. G. Kelley Chapter 14 Checkpoints and Counterpoints: Edward Said and the Question of Apartheid Suren Pillay Chapter 15 The South African Moment Mahmood Mamdani Chapter 16 Reflections in a Mirror: From South Africa to Palestine/Israel and Back Again Heidi Grunebaum Chapter 17 The Last Colony Melissa Levin Acknowledgments About the Contributors Notes Index 1kitap1.com/en Foreword On Palestine Achille Mbembe There is no need to say much more.

We have heard it all by now and from all parties. We all know what is going on—it can’t be “occupied territory” if the land is your own. As a result, everyone else is either an enemy, a “self- hater,” or both. If we have to mask annexation, so be it. In any case, there is no need to take responsibility for the suffering inflicted on the other party because we have convinced ourselves that the other party does not exist.

Thus thuggishness, jingoism, racist rhetoric, and sectarianism. Thus every two or three years, an all-out, asymmetrical assault against a population entrapped in an open-air prison.

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