Katherine Franke

The Broken Promise of Reparations

Today’s emerging embrace of granting reparations for slavery to black people renews an unanswered call that dates back to the Civil War. A collective, land-based approach to reparations makes particular sense as a remedy to redress the injustice suffered by humans who were treated as property.

Debating Israel

Kenneth Waltzer and Mark G. Yudolf: The primary opponents of democratic engagement and dialogue on these difficult issues belong to the BDS movement. Katherine Franke: BDS figures only marginally in my essay, and a defense of BDS is not in any way what the essay was about.

The Pro-Israel Push to Purge US Campus Critics

New policies adopted by the US and Israeli governments are intended to eliminate any rigorous discussion of Israeli–Palestinian politics in university settings. Not since the McCarthyite anti-Communist purges have we seen such an aggressive effort to censor teaching and learning on topics the government disfavors.