[...] and it resulted in very liberal investigators and administrators who knew nothing about Palestine - who know nothing that's going
on aside from what our political leaders and corporate media - determining that I was an anti-semitic monster because of the sort of things about me that actually make me a good anthropologist. Like I question power, I question institutions, I question empire and settler-colonialism. That's actually kind of inherent to what I think a good anthropologist should be doing.
--- Maura Finkelstein, in an interview with the Electronic Intifada
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