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By Ruth Sheldon

For over 4 a long time, occasions in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts inside of British universities round problems with loose speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. yet why is that this clash so major for scholar activists residing at the sort of geographical distance from the quarter itself? And what function do emotive, polarised communications round Palestine-Israel play within the lifetime of British educational associations dedicated to the proper of loose expression? This booklet attracts on unique ethnographic examine with pupil activists on diversified facets of this clash to start up a talk with scholars, teachers and contributors of the general public who're curious about the transnational politics of Palestine-Israel and with the altering function of the general public college. It exhibits how, in an more and more globalised international that's formed by means of entangled histories of ecu antisemitism and colonial violence, ethnography can open up moral responses to questions of justice

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