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A new McCarthyism is attacking Israeli artists — and risks making all of us dumber

JL;DR SUMMARY Sharon Rosen Leib critiques the burgeoning boycott of Israeli cultural institutions by a group of notable writers and artists in response to the Gaza conflict. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli CultureBoycottCensorshipIntellectual FreedomGaza ConflictEmpathyMccarthyismLiteratureCultural ExchangeWriters

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Back in the 1980s, I worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and volunteered on an archaeological dig."
California, United States
"Sharon Rosen Leib is a former deputy attorney general in Californias Department of Justice, an award-winning freelance journalist and contributing writer for the Forward and the San Diego Jewish Journal."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"He sent me the counter-letter, sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Creative Community for Peace."
Israel
"But I made an exception this week to join some 1,000 writers, literary agents and Hollywood bigwigs in opposing a growing boycott of Israels literary establishment because of the Gaza war."

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