> such a
>stance promotes the Israeli government and its sycophantic
>academics by default.
Oh, I see now. If you're not for us, you're against us. The position
which we all so heartily mock when it comes from the likes of George W.
Bush, but which we uncritically applaud when it comes from those backing
'the right causes.'
This is exactly the kind of thing that I meant by being unable to apply
critical reasoning universally, and is exactly why I am tired of
academic discourse on this. If we (as academics) have anything to offer
the world that is different from the arguments and actions of those who
are politicians or activists or fighters, it is because we can the
critical thinking that we have been given the space and time to develop.
Otherwise we might as well engage just as polticians, or activists or
fighters and not pretend there's anything particularly based in the fact
that we are academics that drives us - 'critical thinking' merely
becomes a servant of whatever it is we believe already.
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