Israeli writer boycott: who wins?
The latest “success” of the boycott-Israel campaign has resulted not in pressure on the Israeli government, but in the silencing of women’s voices from the Middle East. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas Austin had been planning to publish a collection of women’s writing as a tribute to a late faculty member. But, according to US website Inside Higher Ed, Huzama Habayeb, a Palestinian contributor based in Abu Dhabi, objected to the inclusion of two pieces by Israeli writers and convinced 13 of the original 29 writers involved to withdraw from the project. The...