What you describe is important, and you give your argument persuasively, but would it not be more important to ensure that far-right foreign groups like AIPAC not have such an influence on our academic institutions?
I can’t say that ethics considerations should be overlooked, but this effort was very clearly made as part of a strategy for silencing criticisms of Israel, not as part of a serious concern about academic ethics.
I think this is a way in which ethics are used by the right as a cudgel to exploit the left and center, we see this trap set again and again by the right and people walk right into it every time.
At a certain point people need to use their reason to make a judgement about whether more real damage is done by these issues that the right disingenuously raises or by letting them achieve their goals so unscrupulously.
What you describe is important, and you give your argument persuasively, but would it not be more important to ensure that far-right foreign groups like AIPAC not have such an influence on our academic institutions?
I can’t say that ethics considerations should be overlooked, but this effort was very clearly made as part of a strategy for silencing criticisms of Israel, not as part of a serious concern about academic ethics.
I think this is a way in which ethics are used by the right as a cudgel to exploit the left and center, we see this trap set again and again by the right and people walk right into it every time.
At a certain point people need to use their reason to make a judgement about whether more real damage is done by these issues that the right disingenuously raises or by letting them achieve their goals so unscrupulously.