No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University – Steve Salaita

What I remember most isn’t anger or shock, but loneliness.  The feeling was pronounced.  I was saddened by what I viewed at the time as a betrayal.  (I view it now as normal protocol.)  But the sense of being alone on the issue, embedded in every Palestinian’s consciousness, felt almost brutal.  Indeed, calling Zionist colonization an “issue” feels a bit obscene.  It’s not an issue limited to rhetoric or opinion; it’s a matter of survival and sustenance, of justice and reparation, of dignity and self-respect.  How could educated people miss something so obvious?  How could society’s leading lights be so hard-hearted? 

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