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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,97 @@ 1 +=1AC – Zionism= 2 + 3 + 4 +==Part 1: Framework== 5 + 6 + 7 +====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.==== 8 + 9 + 10 +====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 ==== 11 +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, 12 +What Are Scenarios and Why Use Them in Political Science? Scenario analysis is perceived 13 +AND 14 +analysts from anticipating and understanding the pivotal junctures that arise in international affairs. 15 + 16 + 17 +====2. Ideal theory strips away particularities making ethics inaccessible and epistemically skewed==== 18 +Mills 05, Charles, 2005, Ideal Theory" as Ideology, 19 +"The crucial common claim—whether couched in terms of ideology and fetishism, 20 +AND 21 +level, the descriptive concepts arrived at may be misleading." (175) 22 + 23 + 24 +====3. No act omission distinction for states means means based theories collapse to consequentialism. ==== 25 +**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~~ 26 +In our view, both the argument from causation and the argument from intention go 27 +AND 28 +of policy instruments that do not adequately or fully discourage it. 29 + 30 + 31 + 32 +==Part 2: Plan== 33 + 34 + 35 +====Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech that criticizes the State of Israel.==== 36 +**Volokh 16** ~~Eugene Volokh, teaches free speech law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, a First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, and tort law, at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, and a seminar on firearms regulation, "University of California Board of Regents is wrong about 'anti-Zionism' on campus," The Washington Post, March 16, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/03/16/university-of-california-board-of-regents-is-wrong-about-anti-zionism-on-campus/?utm_term=.cfab0cd93ad6~~ JW 37 +The University of California Board of Regents has just released its Final Report of the 38 +AND 39 +, universities are the very places where such matters should indeed be discussed. 40 + 41 + 42 +====Empirics prove that there is systemic obstruction of pro-Palestine activism at public colleges and universities ==== 43 +**PL 15 **~~Palestine Legal, an independent organization dedicated to defending and advancing the civil rights and liberties of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom, "The Palestine Exception," September 2015, http://palestinelegal.org/the-palestine-exception~~#notes~~ JW 44 +EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the last decade, a dynamic movement in support of Palestinian human 45 +AND 46 +200 Middle East Studies professors it declared to be "anti-Israel." 47 + 48 + 49 +==Part 3: Advantages == 50 + 51 + 52 +===Advantage 1: Racism=== 53 + 54 + 55 +====a) Islamophobia: Suppression of pro-Palestine movements on campus denies Palestinian students the ability to form solidarity ==== 56 +**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 57 +The silencing campaign is particularly dangerous given the overall political climate, which facilitates the 58 +AND 59 +attack, and one that resonates with the neoliberal restructuring of the universities. 60 + 61 + 62 +====Attempts to conflate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism leads to campaigns by pro-Israel groups that demean and marginalize Muslim-American students ==== 63 +**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 64 +A row over Israel on campus is as predictable as the fall of autumn leaves 65 +AND 66 +over a course that presented Zionism as a "settler colonialist" movement. 67 + 68 + 69 +====b) Anti-Semitism: Conflating criticism of Israel with criticism of Jews opens up Jewish students to attacks based on Israel's actions ==== 70 +**Benin 04** ~~Joel Benin, Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and a former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, "The new American McCarthyism: policing thought about the Middle East," Institute of Race Relations 0306-3968 Vol. 46(1), 1004~~ JW 71 +Academic freedom and open debate on Middle East-related issues were very badly served 72 +AND 73 +minded organisations exposed American Jews to attack because they were identified with Israel. 74 + 75 + 76 +====Far right positions on the Israel-Palestine conflict that lead to censorship are also what justify marginalization within Jewish communities. Empirics with Hillel International prove==== 77 +**JVP 15** ~~Jewish Voice for Peace, "STIFLING DISSENT HOW ISRAEL'S DEFENDERS USE FALSE CHARGES OF ANTI-SEMITISM TO LIMIT THE DEBATE OVER ISRAEL ON CAMPUS," Fall 2015, https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/JVP_Stifling_Dissent_Full_Report_Key_90745869.pdf~~ JW 78 +On college campuses across the country, there has been a concerted effort to purge 79 +AND 80 +, marginalize dissent, and exclude students from participating in campus iJewish life. 81 + 82 + 83 +===Advantage 2: Civic Engagement=== 84 + 85 + 86 +====a) 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 ==== 87 +**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 88 +Finally, proponents and opponents differed in their approaches to power. Opponents of the 89 +AND 90 +a momentum that spilled over onto other campuses and other California BDS initiatives. 91 + 92 + 93 +====b) 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 ==== 94 +**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 95 +From a biblical perspective, this view may be tenable. 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