#AcademicFreedom is seriously at risk when these kinds of infringements on editorial independence happen.
> Eghbariah’s essay — an argument for establishing “Nakba,” [...] as a formal legal concept [...] has once again been stifled — this time by the Columbia Law Review’s board of directors
> After the editors declined a board of directors request to take down the articles, the board pulled the plug on the entire website.
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/
@chartgerink The article is basically a polemic that makes all the usual anti-Israel arguments that you see nowadays (including the usual cringeworthy attempt to make it about racism). I mean, that is the bulk of it.
(Disappointingly (to me at least) it presents no alternative that Israel could have pursued in responding to the 10/7 attacks other than urban warfare, which is always awful.)
I'm no connoisseur of law reviews, but this is certainly not the sort of thing I'd expect to get published. Is there a lot of over-the-top political writing in the CLR?
