{"id":22744,"date":"2023-11-23T07:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2023-11-23T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:36:48","slug":"harvard-law-review-editors-vote-to-kill-article-about-genocide-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=22744","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law Review editors vote to kill article about genocide in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/11\/21\/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept_<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The editor said they found \u201csubstantive flaws\u201d in the piece that were exacerbated by a fear among editors that they would have their names and faces plastered on billboard trucks around campus accusing them of being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/11\/09\/republican-debate-hamas-gaza-ceasefire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamas supporters<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 something that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/18\/us\/harvard-students-israel-hamas-doxxing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">happened to pro-Palestine Harvard students<\/a>\u00a0who signed a controversial open letter.<\/p>\n<p>The editor said substantive flaws are generally removed from pieces prior to publication, but they did not feel such edits would have been possible in this case because of the lack of agreement on underlying facts. \u201cReasonable scholarly debate couldn\u2019t happen in that context,\u201d they said. \u201cPartly because we\u2019re not at a point in time where that debate can happen without your face being put on a truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doerfler praised Eghbariah\u2019s draft amid that climate of fear. \u201cIt is a forceful piece of legal scholarship,\u201d he said, \u201cand it articulates a position that takes real courage to put forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eghbariah\u2019s article was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published Tuesday night at The Nation<\/a>, under the headline \u201cThe Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept_: The editor said they found \u201csubstantive flaws\u201d in the piece that were exacerbated by a fear among editors that they would have their names and faces plastered on billboard trucks around campus accusing them of being\u00a0Hamas supporters\u00a0\u2014 something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=22744\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}