1st Edition
Soft Threats to National Security Antisemitism, BDS and the De-legitimization of Israel
Introduction
Dana Barnett
1. From underdog to occupier: Israel’s tarnished image
Yoav Gelber
2. The unspoken purpose of the academic boycott
Martin Kramer
3. Human Rights Watch’s anti-Israel Agenda
Gerald M. Steinberg
4. Israel in modern Jewish identity: an internal debate
Evyatar Friesel
5. The Palestinian campaign against Israel at the United Nations Human Rights Council
Eytan Gilboa
6. Birds of a feather vote together? EU and Arab League UNGA Israel voting
Leah Mandler and Carmela Lutmar
7. The ICC’s Prosecutor in the service of Palestinian Lawfare
Assaf Derri
8. The Negev Bedouin as a de-legitimization tool
Havatzelet Yahel
9. The coalescence of anti-Zionist ideologies
Henri Stellman
10. The Covert War: From BDS to De-legitimization to Antisemitism
Lev Topor
11. The BDS as an example of Soviet political warfare
Nelly Atlan
Biography
Dana Barnett is an expert on post-Zionism in the academe. She has demonstrated a direct connection between the critical, neo-Marxist scholarship mainstreamed by the social sciences, and the anti-Israel sentiments espoused in scholarships. Barnett is the co-founder and CEO of Israel Academia Monitor, a group which follows BDS and anti-Israel writings of academics. She is the author of Post Zionism and Israeli Universities: The Academic Political Nexus (2016).
Efraim Karsh is Professor Emeritus of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London and Editor of the scholarly journals Middle East Quarterly and Israel Affairs. He is the author of over 120 scholarly articles and sixteen books, including The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East; Palestine Betrayed; Islamic Imperialism: A History; Empires of the Sand: the Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East 1798-1923; and Fabricating Israeli History: the "New Historians" (Routledge).
