Tragic Encounters and Ordinary Ethics: Palestine-Israel in British Universities

by Ruth Sheldon

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this conflict so significant for student activists living at such a geographical distance from the region itself? And what role do emotive, polarised communications around Palestine-Israel play in the life of British academic institutions committed to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178499314X
• ISBN13: 9781784993146
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"