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X-WR-CALNAME:Film Screening of "The Palestine Exception:" "New McCarthyism"
  and Repression of Activism in Higher Ed
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DESCRIPTION:A showing of the film "The Palestine Exception" followed by a Q
 &A with one of the directors\, Jennifer Ruth.\n\nTheir website writes: "Af
 ter years of right-wing assaults on higher education\, attacks took a new 
 form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As s
 tudents across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaz
 a\, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Pa
 lestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and st
 udents as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies th
 at do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators
 \, the media\, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplin
 es explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people
  identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story o
 f college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression\, places wher
 e personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways."
GEO:42.256764;-72.572917
LOCATION:Art Building\, Gamble Auditorium
SUMMARY:Film Screening of "The Palestine Exception:" "New McCarthyism" and 
 Repression of Activism in Higher Ed
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.mtholyoke.edu/event/film-screening-of-the-pale
 stine-exception-new-mccarthyism-and-repression-of-activism-in-higher-ed-53
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CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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