The Anti-Imperialism of Fools

Judith Butler, a comparative literature professor at UC Berkeley, is embroiled in controversy again now that the city of Frankfurt intends to give her a prize worth 50,000 Euros on September 11.

German Middle East expert Thomas von der Osten-Sacken told Benjamin Weinthal at the Jerusalem Post that Frankfurt is legitimizing a “de facto boycott of its partner city Tel Aviv’s academic and cultural institutions” because Butler is a booster for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. More important, however, as Osten-Sacken pointed out recently in a German magazine, Judith Butler is a “Hamas fan.”