The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate

Client: New Jewish Press, Imprint of the University of Toronto Press (2020)

Project: The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate, by Kenneth S. Stern

Specialty:  The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today’s college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine. In this passionate book, Kenneth S. Stern examines attempts from each side to censor the other at a time when some say students, rather than being challenged to wrestle with difficult issues and ideas, are being quarantined from them. He uniquely frames the examination: our ability to think rationally is inhibited when our identity is fiercely connected to an issue of perceived social justice or injustice, and our proclivity to see in-groups and out-groups – us versus them – is obvious. According to Stern, the campus is the best place to mine this conflict and our intense views about it to help future generations do what they are supposed to do: think. The Conflict over the Conflict shows how this is possible. 

TEC copy edited the manuscript for U of Toronto Press style in usage, punctuation, and spelling; corrected grammar errors; edited the endnotes and the bibliography; and finalized all changes in the manuscript in preparation for production.