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Anyone else catch this line in the article smearing him? "Palumbo-Liu, a professor of Comparative Literature, is certainly no stranger to controversy, as he is one of the most prodigious anti-Israel academics in the country. Palumbo-Liu is a staunch advocate of the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel and* has praised the website “If Americans Knew,” a site extensively associated with Holocaust deniers and white supremacists.*" The article in turn links to Tablet Mag, a right-wing Jewish sewer hole, which wholly uses the criticisms of If Americans Knew written by two other ostensibly pro-Palestine groups, Jewish Voice for Peace and US Campaign, in order to make their case that there is a consensus that If Americans Knew is an anti-Semitic website. I remember at the time this happened, DPL felt forced to retract his endorsement of IAK. Some time before that I wrote an article on Louis' website pointing out the holes and inconsistencies and hypocrisy behind some of the criticisms of Alison Weir, the head of If Americans Knew who was the primary target of these accusations of anti-Semitism. I didn't anticipate it would trigger such an angry response (mostly at Louis), especially given that most other Palestine solidarity activists seemed to agree that these criticisms were ill-formed. I also noted a year later that the criticisms of Weir and If Americans Knew were being bizarrely -- and unfairly -- extended to others within the Palestine solidarity movement in order to justify shutting down events, including this one <https://freepalestinemovement.org/2016/04/13/palestinian-refugee-stanford-students-censored-me/> featuring two Palestinian Nakba survivors at Stanford (and this one against the same event series at GWU <https://www.facebook.com/notes/sjp-at-gwu/statement-regarding-the-north-america-nakba-tour/1511289938960086/> ). Now those same attacks, which grew out of the same internal disagreements and accusations of "anti-Semitism" within the left, are being used to bolster a case by right-wing extremists that a leftist professor is actually a terrorist, or worse -- that *he* is some kind of Nazi-defender, rather than the people condemning him. I know it is a touchy subject on this list in particular, but every time I see something like this I feel vindicated that it was absolutely a terrible move by other groups to publicly attack If Americans Knew the way they did. Amith R. Gupta On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > > > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/08/stanfo > rd-professor-mccarthyism-antifa > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
