{"id":2805,"date":"2013-11-18T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2013-11-24T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T22:17:40","slug":"jacobson_article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/2013\/11\/18\/jacobson_article\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Abigail Jacobson seeks to present all views in a volatile discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BU Today writer <a href=\"mailto:barlowr@bu.edu\">Rich Barlow<\/a> reports on the dynamic discussion taking place in EWCJS Professor Abigail Jacobson&#8217;s classroom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/files\/2013\/11\/JacobsonPic.png\" height=\"396\" width=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Whoever said college is an ivory tower isolated from worldly concerns never took Abigail Jacobson\u2019s class on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During a recent session on the history of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Jacobson put a 15-minute chunk of discussion off the record for a visiting reporter as she and students exchanged personal views in a conversation so animated that all 17 people in the room seemed to be talking simultaneously at one point. Such are the passions that this real-world tragedy arouses in students around a table on Bay State Road. For Jacobson, creating a free zone for free expression, where students hear and exchange divergent views, is the goal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m trying really, really hard to expose the students to the different stories and to the different perspectives of this conflict,\u201d Jacobson said in an interview. An Israeli who has worked as a mediator with Israeli and Palestinian youth here and in her home country\u2014invaluable experience during classroom exchanges like the one mentioned above, she noted\u2014Jacobson is a visiting professor from MIT, through BU\u2019s Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies. This is the first time at BU she\u2019s taught the class, which is being offered by the College of Arts &amp; Sciences history department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/the-israeli-palestinian-conflict\/\">here<\/a> at the BU Today website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the subject of a CAS-History course offered by Dr. Abigail Jacobson, visiting professor of Israel Studies at the Elie Wiesel Center. In an recent article, Rich Barlow describes her classroom as a place where college is hardly an ivory tower isolated from real-world concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}