James NORTH: "Leading US anthropologist signs on to BDS despite qualms" (Mondoweiss, November 6, 2015): click here!
James Ferguson is a giant in his field. By chance when I saw the statement below, I was reading his book on southern Africa for the third time, "The Anti-Politics Machine", a brilliant study of why foreign aid failed in the nation of Lesotho. The Stanford anthropologist has great standing among cultural anthropologists, and a superior intellect.
Ben WHITE: "Dialogue vs. BDS? Responding to arguments against an academic boycott of Israel" (Middle East Monitor, November 6, 2015): click here!
Here I will suggest responses to the most common arguments advanced by critics of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and specifically its academic component.
Elif SHAFAK: "‘Nationalist and religious extremists are the beneficiaries of cultural boycotts’" (The Guardian, November 6, 2015): click here!
When writers and academics stay away from countries in protest at human rights violations, it is the people who lose out.