A Curricular Clash at MIT: How a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rattled a department.
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2024-10-15)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-curricular-clash-at-mit
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Beyond paywall but yet suggestive.
“… Michel DeGraff submitted a request to teach a course about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“In the 10 months since then, the professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been locked in a near-constant feud with his department head and colleagues…”
“DeGraff’s colleagues argue that the course — which would analyze the language used in conversations surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — doesn’t align with the department’s curriculum and that DeGraff lacks the necessary expertise to teach it. DeGraff believes the rejection is actually rooted in his pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus and social media…”
People look at academia as some bastion of freedom but in reality those who resist the hegemonic narrative are filtered out mostly in grade school and definitely by the end of grad school. It’s very rare to see someone make it this far. They’ll be removed.