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Guest post by Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton* Testimonial for Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 | Benny BrunnerIn 1948, 700,000+ Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in what would become the state of Israel. Since the declassification of Israel’s

Coal, Guns, Freedom: Teaching Environmental Ethics to Aspiring Petroleum Engineers - Politics/Letters QuarterlyClimate change is real. While the President may or may not still believe that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China, 97% of climate scientists agree that the atmosphere and oceans are warming, ice is diminishing, and the situation poses a great danger to life on this planet. Groups like the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) describe the evidence as “unequivocal.” Though climate denialism persists along sharp ideological lines, the scientific consensus is overwhelming and not even remotely in question. Moreover, scientists also agree on the culprit: human activities. In short, climate change is real, dangerous, and we’re causing it. That much is very clear. But what moral concerns stem from this reality? Who is responsible for a problem famously described by the philosopher Stephen M. Gardiner as a “perfect moral storm”? Above all, what should we do about it? Nothing, according to my students. Given the curricular emphases of my current employer, such an attitude isn’t surprising. Petroleum Engineering is the most popular major at Montana Tech and many of my students will go on to work for some of the biggest polluters in the country. Halliburton and ConocoPhillips advertise on ...

Another Professor Fired for Views on Middle EastAn Interview with Kristofer Petersen-Overton

How Fighting the Corporatization of the American University Can Get You Fired from Your Teaching JobScholar Kristofer Petersen-Overton shares his unfortunate experiences trying to speak out on Israel.

Waiting to enter GazaIf there is a single act that characterizes the plight of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation, it is waiting: waiting in lines to pass through the hundreds of checkpoints scattered across the West Bank, waiting for Israel to issue an identification card, waiting for permission to travel to the next village or out of the country, waiting for loved ones languishing in Israeli prisons to be released. And for nearly two months, Kris Petersen shared the experience of waiting for Israel to give permission to travel to Gaza.

SHOESalette Tavares (1922-1994) was a Portuguese writer, theorist, and visual artist. She was a member of the experimental poetry group PO.EX and was involved in the publication of the first issues of Poesia Experimental. Her books includeQuadrada (1967), Lex Icon (1971), Obra Poética 1957-1971 (1992), and Poesia Gráfica (1995). Her spatial poems were exhibited at the 2014 retrospective, Salette Tavares: Spatial Poetry, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.

Not About BDSThere is something particularly poisonous about the kind of political opportunism on display at Brooklyn College right now. The rapid manufacture of a national controversy in this case reveals, once again, the tenuous state of academic freedom on our campuses.

Torture and Moral VisionTorture is a violation of the law, both domestic and international. It also happens to be a moral outrage. Leaving aside the legal definitions, the abstract notion of a moral outrage entails a degree of subjective judgment—but tends to be more easily identifiable to outsiders than to insiders. After all, few of us possess the moral clarity it takes to reflect upon our own transgressions with the same zeal we readily adopt against others.

Tony Kushner and the corporatisation of CUNY | Kristofer Petersen-OvertonKristofer Petersen-Overton: My parallel experience of being smeared by Jeffrey Wiesenfeld has convinced me of the very real threat to academic freedom

The Gaza Strip: Disengagement two years onTwo years ago, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. We all remember the intense media campaign shamelessly portraying the settlers as dispossessed victims of a bold move for peace. Among others, Harvard economist Sara Roy argued that Israel's version of disengagement would bring disaster to an already desperate Gaza. Today, we are witnessing emergence of an unparalleled economic catastrophe in the Gaza Strip and with it, the evaporation of the last remaining hopes for a Palestinian state. EI contributor Kris Petersen writes from Gaza.

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