In a new segment of his podcast System Update, Glenn Greenwald talks with David Miller, a British professor who was fired for anti-Zionist views in an example of the "safetyism" (as Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff have dubbed it) that we more often associate with the Left.
When Miller mentions that no one has refuted the factual statements for which he's being criticized, I'm reminded of something I saw in the East Jerusalem hostel where I stayed while volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement in 2002. It was a booklet analyzing the curriculum of Palestinian Authority schools from a Zionist standpoint. Various statements about the region's history that were part of this curriculum were criticized as being "anti-peace," yet not once was any evidence adduced that they were untrue. The fact that they were inconvenient for Zionism was seen as sufficient grounds for condemning them.
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