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Deciding to pick this up while Columbia threatens their student encampment for Palestine has been especially interesting

The second article is by a Jewish film studies professor who lost her job after choosing to screen a movie that was seen as criticising Israel and the third article is by a sociology professor who was reported by two Jewish students after sending an optional reading material about the 2008-2009 Israeli attack on Gaza. The ostracization and difficulties they went through were harrowing.

...in as many settings as possible. “If people hear something often enough,they come to believe it.” The Handbook also states that “Creating negative connotations by name calling is done to try to get the audience to reject a person or idea on the basis of negative associations, without allowing a real examination of that person or idea.”

The Hasbara Handbook: Promoting Israel on Campus explains that it is often better to score points than to engage in actual arguments. Point-scoring, it explains, “works because most audience members fail to analyze what they hear. Rather, they register only a key few points, and form a vague ‘impression’ of whose argument was stronger.” Part of the strategy is to recycle the same claims over and again...

The first article by Goldberg and Makdisi opens with an account of a panel discussion about Gaza and human rights in UCLA and how the depiction of that event was thwarted in medias and described as anti-Semitic, although it was not even pro-Palestinian per se.