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Why I Support the Academic Boycott of Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY Eric Cheyfitz, a scholar at Cornell and a member of the American Studies Association, explains his support for the academic boycott of Israel. 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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DemocracyPalestineHuman RightsJusticeColonialismAcademic BoycottAmerican Studies AssociationNative American StudiesExceptionalism

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East Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
"I am a scholar of American Indian and Indigenous studies, who has in published word and action opposed settler colonialism wherever it exists, including of course the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"I am a scholar of American Indian and Indigenous studies, who has in published word and action opposed settler colonialism wherever it exists, including of course the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem."
Palestinian Territories
"It is worth noting in this respect that just as the myth of American exceptionalism seeks to erase the genocide and ongoing settler colonialism of Indigenous peoples here in the United States, so the myth of Israeli exceptionalism seeks to erase Israeli colonialism in Palestine and claim original rights to Palestinian lands."
New York, United States
"Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"American exceptionalism, of which Manifest Destiny is perhaps the best known form (the notion that the U.S. has a God-given democratizing mission in the world), has kept the U.S. and its people from facing its own genocidal history, a necessary step in beginning to move history in a progressive direction."

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