Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE—CONTRASTING AGENDAS: BOYCOTT VERSUS PEACEBUILDING

I THE GOALS AND TACTICS OF THE BOYCOTT MOVEMENT

II FIVE COMPONENTS OF A PEACE PLAN

PART TWO—FOUR BDS FACULTY PORTRAITS

III JUDITH BUTLER: A Philosopher Promotes a One-State Fantasy

IV STEVEN SALAITA: The Fluid Line Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

V SAREE MAKDISI: Criminalizing Israeli Law and Culture

VI JASBIR PUAR: Obsessive Demonology as a Research Agenda

PART THREE—TEACHING FOR EMPATHY OR HOSTILITY

VII ANTI-ZIONIST HOSTILITY:

Teaching to Delegitimate the Jewish State

VIII PEDAGOGY AS EMPATHY:

Teaching Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian Poetry Together

PART FOUR—CHALLENGES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND IN PALESTINE

IX A FACULTY GROUP ORGANIZES A BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN

X ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES

XI THE CASE FOR COORDINATED UNILATERAL WITHDRAWL FROM THE WEST BANK: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm

AFTERWORD

Where BDS is Headed in the Academy

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

INDEX

About the Author

Cary Nelson is author or editor of over 30 books, including studies of modern poetry and the politics of higher education, Nelson's most recent book is Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel.

Reviews

The book completely discredits BDS by demonstrating in devastating detail how much it corrupts academic standards and undermines the chances for peace. With its more than 400 pages of text, some 50 pages of notes, and an extensive bibliography, the book not only reflects Nelson's longstanding concern about the corrosive effects of BDS activism, but also his vast experience and erudition as a prolific scholar whose academic career spans almost five decades.
*The Algemeiner*

After Nelson's book, no one should be able to take the work of the BDS professors seriously, given their reliance on propagandistic lies. Cary Nelson's Israel is not the mythic realm of demons fantasized by BDS advocates but an actual place that contains signs of hope.
*David Mikics, Tablet*

Nelson has written a very good book: clear, judicious, and exemplary in its concern for reason and evidence.
*Fathom*

Israel Denial is an epic response to BDS and its pseudo-intellectual underpinnings.
*elder of Ziyon*

Israel Denial seeks to take the rug out from beneath the feet of scholars pushing vilification of Israel and promoting discrimination against Israeli institutions by discriminating against Israeli faculty and students. This is an important book for those who want to be equipped with fighting what is called academic BDS.
*Israel Diaries*

[T]his book fills a desperate need—the need to expose the bigotry of the anti-Israel academy and the thinly veiled fictions they propagate.
*Commentary*

Israel Denial is a staggering work of rigorous intellectual inquiry that helps us understand how a deep anti-Israel animus in academia has fueled the rise of intersectionality as a movement to isolate and exclude Jews.
*Jewish Journal*