IT IS NOT GOING TO RESIST ITSELF

Two Sets of Theses on Resisting Our Emergent Fascism

 

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“It Is Not Going To Resist Itself: Two Sets of Theses on Resisting our Emergent Fascism”

is both a manifesto and a study guide for resisting the fascism unfolding here and now.

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Additional Writing from Daniel Segal about the Historical Present

 

“It Is Time to Censure Harvard and Time to Update the AAUP’s Censure Process,” Academe Blog, Feb. 20, 2025.

 

“On Campus—An Opera about Genocide in a Time of Genocide,” Academe Blog, Dec. 20, 2024.

 

“The Obligation to Sell the AFT’s Israel Bond,” Academe Blog, July 18, 2024.

 

“The AAUP’s Absolutist Antiboycott Policy Reexamined,” Academe Blog, Feb. 28, 2024.

 

“All of Them Should Go,” Academe Blog, Feb. 5, 2024.

 

“Why, as a Jew, I Oppose Indiana’s Bill Defining Antisemitism,” Indianapolis Star, Jan 23, 2024.

 

“Your Pension, Your Future, and Your Students’ Future,” (co-authored with Don Nonini and Sheldon Pollock), Academe Blog, Dec. 12, 2023.

 

“Without Apology—Academic Freedom and Campus Speech Rights for Anti-Zionist Students and Faculty,” Academe Blog, Nov. 10, 2023.

 

“A Call to Divest,” (co-authored with V. Casper, D. Hertzer, C. Levine, and Sheldon Pollock), The New York Review of Books, April 20, 2023.

 

“In Conflating Anti-Zionism with Antisemitism, Pomona Administrators Cause Several Harms,” The Student Life, April 13, 2023.

 

“The Seduction of Truthiness: A Response,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 15, 2022.

 

 “Not All Is Well That Ends Well,” Academe Blog, Nov. 3, 2021.

 

“An Open Letter to Nine College Administrators United in Opposition to BDS,” Mondoweiss, June 4, 2021.

 

“A Trustee Exits Pitzer College,” Pink Tank Blog, May 3, 2021.

 

“A Veto against a Just Peace for All in Palestine and Israel,” Mondweiss, March 25, 2019.

 

“Why Israel?” Inside Higher Ed, Jan. 20, 2019.

 

Video

 

Teach-in on Palestine in Evansville, IN (Nov. 2, 2023).