The act of criticising Israel has been at the forefront in the battle for defending academic freedom. In recent years an increasing number of leading scholars around the world have faced baseless, yet devastating, accusations of anti-Semitism because of their legitimate critiques of Israel's violation of human rights, war crimes, systematic racism, ethnic cleansing, and its overall settler-colonial project in Palestine. Pro-Israel and Zionist lobbyists are leading the war against academic freedom by mobilising various centres of power in and outside the university. The Zionist targetting of academic institutions tends not only to diminish spaces of academic freedom but also to enforce a friendly environment where Israel's settler-colonial project is mainly perceived in positive terms. The editors of this book bring together a collection of twelve original essays inspired by a conference entitled 'Freedom of Speech and Higher Education: The Case of the Academic Boycott of Israel', which took place at Trinity College Dublin in 2017. Inevitably, the organisers and participants were attacked by various pro-Israel groups before, during, and after the conference. Despite these serious challenges, determination to carry on with the conference's notable message and to advocate academic freedom has resulted in this invaluable and brave volume. While taking criticism of Israel as the main focus of the debate, the volume sheds light on how the dominant forces within academia tend to suppress academic freedom in neoliberal settings. The book's foreword is written by Rabab Abdulhadi, a scholar and staunch advocate of social justice and Palestinian rights. She documents her experience at San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she has been subject to systematic harassment by the Zionist lobby and the university administrators. As a way to silence her voice, the SFSU administrators manipulated free speech to favour Zionists and suppress academic freedom for those working for Palestine. The editors' introduction engages in a fruitful discussion concerning academic freedom and how it relates to the academic boycott of Israel. They question the idealist usage of academic freedom, emphasising the materialist conditions defining its boundaries. While the introduction points to disagreement among the volume's contributors regarding the very meaning and functions of academic freedom, condemning the injustices in Palestine appears to be an unquestionable obligation for progressive scholarship. Part I, entitled 'Universities and academic governance', includes five chapters presenting a variety of perspectives on the institutional context within which the extent of academic freedom, particularly with regard to the Palestinian cause, is determined. Hilary Aked inaugurates the first part by offering insights into the ideological function of 'Israeli Studies', which has been expanding in Western universities in recent decades. The promotion of 'Israeli Studies' should be understood as a top-down institutional instrument to relieve Israel's legitimacy crisis through creating active 'epistemic

Were the military and the FAA really that incompetent? Were our intelligence-gathering agencies really in the dark about 9/11? How could so much go wrong at once, in the world's strongest and most technologically sophisticated country? Both the government and the mainstream media have tried to portray the 9/11 truth movement as led by people who can be dismissed as "conspiracy theorists." This volume shows this caricature to be untrue. Coming from different academic disciplines as well as from different parts of the world, the authors are united In the conviction that the official story about 9/11 is a huge deception manufactured to extend Imperial control at home and abroad.