A new book has been released and published on ZeD, entitled “Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel” by Conor McCarthy, David Landy, and Ronit Lentin. The book addresses academic freedom, which is considered “under siege,” as universities become sites full of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech, through concerted efforts to silence critical voices through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats, and online harassment. According to the book, these tactics have conspicuously been used, with a particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic criticism of Israel. Researchers use controversies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of different national contexts. To check the paper, click here