further response to Ezra Klein on the career benefits of criticizing Israel

Here’s a conference in Boston in March on the one-state solution. A big lineup of speakers, including the great Phyllis Bennis, Joel Kovel, Nadia Hijab. You never see these people writing op-eds in the Times. And Saree Makdisi is here. His book on Palestine was initially censored by a leading bookstore in Washington, till the uproar forced the owner to reverse her decision. This is hardly an aberration. This sort of marginalization occurs all the time. And the idea that it doesn’t have professional or economic ramifications is just absurd.  (Phil Weiss)