“The specific demands vary from place to place,” Mira Sucharov writes. “What unites them is a call for schools to use their financial leverage and other kinds of influence to apply pressure on Israel.”
Mira Sucharov
Dr. Mira Sucharov is a professor of Political Science. She holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a BA in Middle East Studies from McGill University. She is the author of "Borders and Belonging: A Memoir" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), "Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement" (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and "The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace" (SUNY Press, 2005). Sucharov is co-editor (with Aaron J. Hahn Tapper) of "Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational & Contemporary Debates" (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and (with Eric Van Rythoven) "Methodology and Emotion in International Relations: Parsing the Passions" (Routledge, 2019). She is currently writing a dual travel-memoir with Omar M. Dajani on space, place and emotion in Israel/Palestine, and they are developing a podcast on the past and future of Jaffa, called “The Vacant Lot.” Sucharov is the founding co-chair of the Jewish Politics Division at the Association for Jewish Studies, and is immediate past co-editor of AJS Perspectives.
