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+==Framework== |
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+====The role of the ballot is to evaluate the simulated consequences of the affirmative policy vs a competing neg policy option to reduce material oppression.==== |
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+====1. The aff deploys the state to learn scenario planning- even if politics is bad, scenario analysis of politics is pedagogically valuable- it enhances creativity, deconstructs biases and teaches advocacy skills ==== |
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+Barma et al 16 May 2016, ~~Advance Publication Online on 11/6/15~~, Naazneen Barma, PhD in Political Science from UC-Berkeley, Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Brent Durbin, PhD in Political Science from UC-Berkeley, Professor of Government at Smith College, Eric Lorber, JD from UPenn and PhD in Political Science from Duke, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, Rachel Whitlark, PhD in Political Science from GWU, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program within the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, "'Imagine a World in Which': Using Scenarios in Political Science," International Studies Perspectives 17 (2), pp. 1-19, |
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+What Are Scenarios and Why Use Them in Political Science? Scenario analysis is perceived |
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+analysts from anticipating and understanding the pivotal junctures that arise in international affairs. |
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+====2. Ideal theory strips away particularities making ethics inaccessible and epistemically skewed==== |
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+Mills 05, Charles, 2005, Ideal Theory" as Ideology, |
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+"The crucial common claim—whether couched in terms of ideology and fetishism, |
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+level, the descriptive concepts arrived at may be misleading." (175) |
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+====3. No act omission distinction for states means means based theories collapse to consequentialism. ==== |
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+**Sunstein and Vermule 05**~~Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule. The University of Chicago Law School. "Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life‐Life Tradeoffs." JOHN M. OLIN LAW and ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER NO. 239. The Chicago Working Paper Series. March 2005~~ |
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+In our view, both the argument from causation and the argument from intention go |
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+a set of policy instruments that do not adequately or fully discourage it. |
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+==Plan== |
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+====Resolved: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict constitutionally protected speech that criticizes the State of Israel's policies.==== |
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+Emmons 16 ~~Alex Emmons, Senate Responds to Trump-Inspired Anti-Semitism By Targeting Students Who Criticize Israel, The Intercept, December 2 2016~~ |
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+**A draft of the bill obtained by The Intercept encourages the Department of Education to ** |
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+**AND** |
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+**environment on the basis of national origin" for Jewish students on campus.** |
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+==Advantages == |
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+===Advantage 1: Islamophobia=== |
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+====I'll isolate two impacts ==== |
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+====a) Suppression of pro-Palestine movements on campus denies Palestinian students the ability to form solidarity ==== |
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+**Nadeau and Sears 11** ~~Mary-Jo Nadeau and Alan Sears, Mary-Jo Nadeau teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto-Mississauga. Alan Sears teaches at the Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto. "This Is What Complicity Looks Like: Palestine and the Silencing Campaign on Campus," The Bullet, March 5, 2011, http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/475.php~~ JW |
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+The silencing campaign is particularly dangerous given the overall political climate, which facilitates the |
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+attack, and one that resonates with the neoliberal restructuring of the universities. |
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+====b) Attempts to conflate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism leads to campaigns by pro-Israel groups that demean and marginalize Muslim-American students ==== |
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+**Solomon 16** ~~Daniel J. Solomon, "Inflammatory Pro-Israel Posters Pop Up on Campus — Are They Islamophobic?," Forward, October 26, 2016, http://forward.com/news/national/352698/inflammatory-pro-israel-posters-pop-up-on-campus-are-they-islamophobic/~~ JW |
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+A row over Israel on campus is as predictable as the fall of autumn leaves |
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+over a course that presented Zionism as a "settler colonialist" movement. |
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+====Islamophobia empirically leads to hate crimes, fractures communities, and increases national security threats. ==== |
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+Foran 16 ~~Clare Foran, Donald Trump and the Rise of Anti-Muslim Violence, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-muslims-islamophobia-hate-crime/500840/~~ |
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+A new report from California State University-San Bernardino's Center for the Study of |
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+a number of instances not just to hostility, but acts of violence." |
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+===Advantage 2: Civic Engagement=== |
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+====Many clubs on college campuses can help create civic engagement for their students. ==== |
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+**Cress et al 10** ~~Christine M. Cress, PhD, is department chair of educational leadership and policy and professor of postsecondary, adult, and continuing education (PACE) at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, "A Processing Connection: Increasing College Access and Success through Civic Engagement," 2010, http://www.compact.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/A-Promising-Connection.pdf~~ JW |
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+Both historical and contemporary higher education writers and researchers have asserted that the primary goal |
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+will create a strong educational, social, political, and economic fabric. |
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+====Public universities are threatening cuts to funding in response to pro-Palestine divestment strategies. Empirically proven on University of California campuses where organizations that don't associate with pro-Palestine get funding while others don't==== |
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+**Friedman 15** ~~Nora Barrows-Friedman, staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, "UCLA student groups face funding cuts over Israel divestment," The Electronic Intifada, Dec 7, 2015, https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/ucla-student-groups-face-funding-cuts-over-israel-divestment~~ JW |
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+The Graduate Students Association at UCLA in California has put stipulations on funding for student |
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+by a landslide vote and was supported by more than 30 student organizations. |
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+====Israeli companies abuse West Bank occupation for their own profit while exploiting and suppressing local Palestinians. Every dollar that the divestment strategy gains translates into increased welfare in Palestine ==== |
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+**Press 16** ~~Eyal Press, author of "Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times, "When 'Made in Israel' Is a Human Rights Abuse," New York Times, January 26, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/opinion/when-made-in-israel-is-a-human-rights-abuse.html?_r=0~~ JW |
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+From a biblical perspective, this view may be tenable. From a legal and |
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+obligated to treat the settlements as part of Israel in future trade negotiations. |
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+===Advantage 3: Spillover=== |
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+====Encouraging discourse about foreign policy toward Israel-Palestine is uniquely good because it builds coalitions across all racial groups to inspire new dialogues. The aff spills over to other reform movements ==== |
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+**Hallward and Shaver 12** ~~Maia Carter Hallward and Patrick Shaver, Associate Professor of Middle East Politics at American university, "''WAR by other Means'' or Nonviolent Resistance? Examining the Discourses Surrounding Berkeley's Divestment Bill," Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, July 2012~~ JW |
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+Finally, proponents and opponents differed in their approaches to power. Opponents of the |
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+a momentum that spilled over onto other campuses and other California BDS initiatives. |