(Although maybe I'm being too harsh in taking his self-professed view of the world entirely through a binary oppressor/oppressed dynamic at roughly face value.)
Putting up a sign saying "autoerotic asphyxiation party" in a hotel conference center and collecting congressional republicans in one of the meeting rooms, all carrying rope and arguing with each other about chair placement.
What in tarnation.
"Ooooooooh BIG TOBACCO cunningly engineered potato chips, which are fatty, salty, and umami, to taste good and addict us to eating them wOooOOOOoooh"
Man, that Salaita essay is really psychologically revealing about his worldview and, like, I dunno, Steve, I think that the underlying cause of dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims generally in 20th-century America was embedded white supremacism and had basically nothing to do with Jews.
Did... did Glinner get a truly colossally botched boob job?
Granted, "two to six-part serials of 22-25 minutes" offers different constraints than "normally self-contained episodes of 45-60 minutes". Maybe a shift in the format is desirable too.
"Justifying Israel" is such a slippery weasel of a term. "Then these supposedly apolitical cultural productions always end up justifying the Nakba/Operation Cast Lead" would be an asinine thing to say, so what does Salaita actually mean by that? (I mean, I can guess!)
