Judith Butler Quotes About Debate

Quotes about: Debate

• I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.

  Judith Butler

  Government, Circles, Issues

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Space, Speech

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.

  Judith Butler

  Writing, Sea, Looks

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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