Kenneth S. Stern’s, The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate [2020 Toronto and Buffalo: The New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press. $29.95]

Authors

Steven Leonard Jacobs, University of AlabamaFollow

Abstract

The Conflict Over the Conflict is an important contribution to the overall literature regarding the (seeming) turmoil on many of our college and university campuses—but not all, including my own where controversial issues surface rarely if at all—vis-à-vis the Israel/Palestine conflict, free speech and controversial speakers, and the like. Stern brings to the discussion not only his lawyerly training and his skill set, but, as of late, his directorship of the academic Bard College Center for the Study of Hate and thus combining both with a singular focus. Even more importantly, perhaps, his firm commitment to the campus as the locale for both the “free and open marketplace of ideas” and the true responsibility to teach properly young and growing minds capable of learning and discerning truth from falsehood and distortion shine forth with crystal clarity.

Recommended Citation

Jacobs, Steven Leonard (2021) "Kenneth S. Stern’s, The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate [2020 Toronto and Buffalo: The New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press. $29.95]," Journal of Hate Studies: Vol. 17: Iss. 2, Article 1.
DOI: 10.33972/jhs.218
Available at: https://repository.gonzaga.edu/jhs/vol17/iss2/1

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