Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

What is happening to Judith Butler - a Jewish intellectual - in the name of fighting antisemitism' is outrageous

Amid all the other breaking news consuming the United States this month, the University of California, Berkeley, arguably the nation's most elite public university, gave the Trump administration a list of 160 names of faculty, staff and students, as part of an investigation into alleged antisemitic incidents".

While all the names on this list are significant, one name in particular that UC Berkeley handed over to the Trump administration stands out: Judith Butler, the eminent queer theorist, literary theorist and philosopher, and one of the most famous public intellectuals in the United States today.

Joel Swanson is professor of Jewish studies at Sarah Lawrence College