Once Upon a Time

Campus Report ^ | May 18, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Once Upon a Time

by: Malcolm A. Kline, May 18, 2009

Boston College sociologist Eve Spangler has put into words what may be the dominant theme in most academic discourses, not to mention university courses. “Remember not only that narratives trump facts, but that these narratives operate within a [sic] equal power,” she tells students.

Apparently, the lady practices what she preaches in her class on “Social Justice in Israel/Palestine.” “Many of the narratives she chooses, come from a purely Palestinian perspective, such as Omar Barghouti’s ‘Boycotting Israeli Apartheid, Evoking South Africa’s Legacy,’ or Richard Falk’s, ‘United Nations Rapporteur for Palestine, Slouching Toward a Palestinian Holocaust,’” Jesse Naiman reports in The Observer at Boston College in the April 28, 2009 issue....