We Will Not Be Silenced

William I. Robinson is Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Among his many award-winning books are Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (CUP, 2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (Pluto, 2017).Maryam S. Griffin is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis. She holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara. She is a co-editor of We Will Not Be Silenced (Pluto, 2017).Cynthia McKinney served six terms in the United States Congress between 1993-2007, as the first black woman to represent the state of Georgia in the House of Representatives. Since leaving Congress she has been a tireless champion of numerous peace and social justice struggles around the world. She is a contributor to We Will Not Be Silenced (Pluto, 2017).Richard Falk is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Princeton University in the United States. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 from 2008-2012, and is currently Chair of the Gaza Tribunal. He is a prolific writer on international law and global politics; his most recent publication is Genocide in Gaza: Global Voices of Conscience (co-editor with Ahmet Davutoğlu).

'These testimonials provide a stunning and all too familiar portrait of the extent to which the forces that suppress free speech and academic freedom are at work in the U.S. university system'

• Foreword by Cynthia McKinney Preface by Richard A. Falk Introduction: Academic Repression on US University Campuses - William I. Robinson and Maryam S. Griffin1. The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics - David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi2. They Shoot Tenure, Don’t They?: How I Crossed the Borders of Acceptable Academic Discourse on Holocaust Film and the Question of Palestine, and Never Came Back - Terri Ginsberg3. My Ordeal with the Israel Lobby and the University of California - William I. Robinson4. The Irvine 11: Power, Punishment, and Perseverance - Taher Herzallah with Osama Shabaik5. A Problem Grows in Brooklyn - Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton6. Speaking Truth to Power: Advocating for Justice in/for Palestine - Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi7. Hanlon’s Razor Cuts Both Ways - David Delgado Shorter8. The Intolerability of Intolerance - Persis Karim9. Responding to Columbia University’s McCarthyism: Excerpts of Statement on March 14, 2005 to Columbia University Ad Hoc Grievance Committee - Joseph Massad10. A Multiyear Zionist Censorship Campaign - David Klein11. Some Thoughts on Facts, Politics, and Tenure - Nadia Abu El-Haj12. Censoring and Sanctioning Students for Justice in Palestine - Max Geller13. A So-called Self-hating, Anti-Semitic Jew Speaks Out - Lisa Rofel14. Interrupted Destinies: Before and After and Forthwith - Steven SalaitaList of Resources Notes on Contributors Index