If I had to read between the lines I would assume they’re trying to identify academics with pro-Palestinian sympathies.
But it probably also includes anyone who studies postcolonialisn, who is too pro-Middle East and not enough pro-France, who critiqued the French government for beaming racist cartoons on the side of buildings and thinking it was a sane and good response to a teacher being killed, or really anyone at all who ever thought Derrida, Sartre, or The Battle of Algiers made a few good points.
If I had to read between the lines I would assume they’re trying to identify academics with pro-Palestinian sympathies.
That was my thought too.
Reading the article (and the press release another comrade posted here) it sounds ‘Islamo-leftism’ is a francosphere version of ‘cultural Marxism’, i.e. it doesn’t mean anything really.
