{"id":9088,"date":"2012-09-27T07:34:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2012-09-26T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:36:37","slug":"butler-adornod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/butler-adornod\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Adorn’od"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I followed the Judith Butler debate in the German newspapers these past 6 weeks or so, but didn’t post on it. The\u00a0following\u00a0article from Muzzlewatch<\/strong><\/em> however is worth calling attention to as it is a good summary of the craven &\u00a0unwarranted\u00a0opposition to Butler being given the Adorno prize:<\/p>\n

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Why Judith Butler had to be shut down<\/a><\/h3>\n

Posted on September 25 2012 by Cecilie Surasky under\u00a0Anti-semitism<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Censorship<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Educational Institutions<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0The announcement of a prestigious international academic prize doesn\u2019t typically generate endless sturm und drang on the pages of major newspapers around the world, threatening to turn into an international incident. But when that prize is given by a German city, and the recipient is Judith Butler, one of the great thinkers of our time\u2013 who also happens to be a vocal critic of Israeli policies\u2014apparently it signifies the end is near.<\/p>\n

Within minutes of announcing that Judith Butler, who can best be described as the Mick Jagger of left academia, had won the prestigious Theodor Adorno prize for her extraordinary and wide-ranging body of critical theory work, the hapless judges of the Frankfurt prize were besieged with complaints by those who said it should be revoked immediately.<\/p>\n

Writing in the pages of the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, \u00a0Richard Landes and Ben Weinthal claimed the decision to give Butler the award would threaten Germany and Israel\u2019s \u201cspecial relationship\u201d, and compared it to<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s circumcision bans, Berlin sending submarines to a newly belligerent Egypt, and ugly revelations of German behavior in the Munich Olympics terror attack.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Opposite-landia, the weird through-the-looking-glass world created by those who would defend Israel at all costs, right-wing critics\u00a0claimed Judith Butler is anti-Semitic<\/a>. \u00a0Judith Butler\u00a0loves Hamas<\/a>. Judith Butler is too political. Judith Butler\u00a0isn\u2019t political enough<\/a>\u00a0. Or my favorite, Judith Butler is\u00a0ignorant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the truth is Butler became a lightning rod because one of the world\u2019s best-known philosophers, who happens to be Jewish, is also deeply engaged in questions of Judaism, Jewish ethics and Zionism. Her lifelong investigation of these questions, in the spirit of Arendt and Buber who inspired because they walked their own paths\u2014led her to keep one foot solidly in Jewish culture while placing the other in solidarity with precisely the people much of the Jewish world want us to forget, Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Equally unforgivably, her intellectual and personal journey led her to support a movement that mainstream Jewish institutions are\u00a0desperately\u00a0trying to claim as anti-Semitic: the Palestinian-led, nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. (My use of the the worddesperately<\/em>\u00a0is deliberate. As more and more individual Jews and Jewish organizations support some form of boycott or divestment to pressure Israel into being accountable to international law and basic Jewish ethics, the argument that doing so is essentially anti-Jewish reveals itself for the emptiness that it is.)<\/p>\n

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