Comrades and friends
Over the years, in writing posts about Palestine, I have often put up links to the excellent Mondoweiss website, which hosts very strong and intelligent commentary on the evolving situation in Palestine and Israel.
Mondoweiss has very kindly agreed to publish Rabab Abudlhadi's brilliant Foreword to Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel (Zed Books 2020), the volume of essays which I recently published with Ronit Lentin and David Landy. Rabab's story is a shocking one, and illustrates and dramatizes the difficulties which radical Palestine campaigners now face. But her story also illustrates the courage and steel displayed by one brave dissenting intellectual and stands therefore as an inspiration to us all.
Warm thanks go to Professor Rabab Abdulhadi for her writing and her example, and to Allison Deger and all at Mondoweiss for their support!
Conor
