The Holy Land in Transit: \u00a0Colonialism and the Quest for Caanan<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0This is imaged, rather than in html or another copy-able format, and I really only just started looking at it over the weekend, but if you\u2019ve got time to spare and have been thinking to yourself, \u201cI really want to get up to speed on jargon used in English departments,\u201d now\u2019s your chance. \u00a0Take a look and let me know what you think.<\/p>\nIn general, I\u2019m not impressed with what I\u2019ve seen. \u00a0Of course, I disagree with his underlying premise, that the Jews living in the Holy Land a century ago were inconsequential and the waves of new settlers coming from Europe paralleled the European settlers coming to America, so neither of these groups has any moral right to the land they occupy. \u00a0But from what I saw of the dissertation, he was all over the map in terms of his overall argument \u2014 but I didn\u2019t make it past the rather long introduction to the \u201cliterary\u201d part of the document. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not much in the way of new developments since I first wrote about the Steven Salaita story \u2014 the board of trustees has now, by a vote of 8 to 1, rejected his candidacy, and Salaita says he\u2019s going to sue. But in the meantime, I did find his dissertation online. \u00a0Here it is: \u00a0\u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-university-of-illinois"],"yoast_head":"\n
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