
Palestinian Freedom, Antisemitism Accusations, and Civil Rights Law
Recent efforts to suppress the expression of the most basic aspirations for Palestinian freedom offend not only civil libertarian commitments to free speech and related ideas of academic freedom, but, perhaps more surprisingly, civil rights commitments to nondiscrimination. The basic argument is this: translating an embrace of Palestinian life and freedom into a call for Jewish death relies on pervasive racist and anti-Muslim stereotypes of Palestinians as endemically hateful, violent, deceptive, and hostile to Jews. Employment decisions based on such stereotypes violate Title VII’s prohibitions on race, national origin, and religious discrimination.