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Standing on the Barricades

October 13, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Returning to Gray is Beautiful Last year I announced my intention to write a series of posts for the PS Commons (we’re now calling these “letters”) around the gray is beautiful theme. Predictably, things got in the way. I did write soon thereafter on controversies surrounding Israel/Palestine and Turkey/Kurdistan. But then ...

Gray is Beautiful: Israel/Palestine, Turkey/Kurdistan

October 14, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Along with most, if not all, the contributors to Public Seminar on the war in Gaza, I am critical of the actions of Netanyahu’s policies and the actions of the IDF, and I am concerned about where the center of gravity is in Israel. I see fundamental problems with the ...

Steven Salaita and Academic Freedom: A Call for Solidarity

From the Editors of Public Seminar

August 12, 2014 • by Public Voices

We have learned with apprehension that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has apparently revoked a job offer as a professor of American Indian Studies to Professor Steven Salaita due to his tweets and public anti-Israel comments on the current conflict in Gaza. Salaita had already resigned from his position ...