Category Archives: Essentializing

An Unlikely but Necessary Conversation: When Enemies Meet

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It’s so easy to see our enemies as — well, enemies. What does it take to re-see them as human? Late in life, Erika Jacoby and Ursula Martens took an incredible journey. Not the sort of journey that takes you by jet halfway around the world. No, the sort of

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Chants at Columbia U

Have Students Stopped Reading? Thoughts on Some Protesters’ Outrageous Chants

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Source here I get why social justice-oriented college students are furious with Israel.  (I am, too.) I get why they are protesting to support Palestinians’ right to an independent homeland.  (I support that, too, though the boundaries are up for negotiation.) While I find it a deeply offensive, emotion-based tactic,

Academia, Anti-Semitism, Binary thinking, Education, Essentializing, History, Israel, Judaism, Language politics, Learning, MidEast, Othering, Politics and society, Public anthropology, Sephardic Jews, Social activism, Teachers Read more