Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the definition has been used to stifle academic freedom and freedom of expression.

Dr Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator. Her most recent publication is a chapter in Racism Violence & Harm: Ideologies, Me... dia and Resistance edited by Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting and Waqas Tufail (Palgrave McMillan, 2023).
Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the definition has been used to stifle academic freedom and freedom of expression.