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Video: Judith Butler on BDS and Antisemitism

Judith Butler addresses the charges of antisemitism leveled at supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and the related anti-boycott acts currently before both the US House and Senate.

Verso Books10 October 2017

Video: Judith Butler on BDS and Antisemitism

In a video shot in August at the Jewish Voice for Peace offices in Oakland, Judith Butler addresses the charges of antisemitism leveled at supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and the related anti-boycott acts currently before both the US House and Senate, which would effectively criminalize support for the movement. 

Watch Butler's full remarks below. 

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Book strip #1

  • The Case for Sanctions Against Israel

    The Case for Sanctions Against Israel

    In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing bloc...
    Paperback
  • Letters to Palestine
    Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed home...
    Paperback
  • A Time to Speak Out

    A Time to Speak Out

    In A Time to Speak Out, a collection of strong Jewish voices come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews. With articles on such topics as international law, th...
  • Ten Myths About Israel
    In this groundbreaking book, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. This h...
    Paperback (2017)
  • Beyond Chutzpah
    In Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel–Palestine...
    Paperback
  • Shattered Hopes
    President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, “It is ...
    Paperback

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