The Conflict Over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today\'s college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine.
The Conflict Over the Conflict shows how this is possible..
According to Stern, the Campus is the best place to mine this Conflict and our intense views about it to help future generations do what they are supposed to do: think.
He uniquely frames the examination: our ability to think rationally is inhibited when our identity is fiercely connected to an issue of perceived social justice or injustice, and our proclivity to see in-groups and out-groups - us versus them - is obvious.
Stern examines attempts from each side to censor the other at a time when some say students, rather than being challenged to wrestle with difficult issues and ideas, are being quarantined from them.
How did we get here and what can be done? In this passionate book, Kenneth S.
Academic freedom is compromised and the entire academic enterprise is threatened.
Faculty members are blacklisted and receive death threats.
Legislation is proposed.
Lawsuits are filed.
Some pro-Israel students label pro-Palestinian students terrorists, and the Jews among them traitors.
Some pro-Palestinian students call supporters of Israel\'s right to exist racist, and disrupt their events.
The Conflict Over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today\'s college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine
