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On the Academic Calls to Boycott Israel, Part I

The Jewish Question and the debate over the Israeli academy

September 9, 2015 • by Netta van Vliet

This post is the first part in a three-part series, which will be posted over the remainder of the week.

If Israel is a contentious topic of conversation in mainstream and alternative news media, in everyday exchanges at the grocery store or the dinner table, it comes ...

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