One year on from the massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations and occupation of Columbia's 128-year-old campus,

one protester's placard sticks in my head. It read,

Columbia, why require me to read Professor Edward Said if you don't want me to use it?

This placard is referring to one of the most famous and influential academics in the last 50 years.

And the question it asks gets to the very heart of the Columbia protests

and the wave of anti-Israel enmity that has consumed colleges for the last year and a half.

Edward Said's most important book, or Annalism, has irrevocably changed universities since it was published nearly a half. Edward Said's most important book, or analism, has irrevocably changed universities

since it was published nearly a half century ago. After the break, how that book was the

intellectual kindling for the tentafada that burns today.

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