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Judith Butler, by calling Hamas attacks an 'act of armed resistance,' rekindles controversy on the left
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During a round-table discussion on March 3 in Pantin, outside Paris, Butler, who uses they/them pronouns, said that these attacks were an act of "resistance." Their words quickly sparked strong reactions after several excerpts were posted on social media.</p> <div id="inread_top" class="dfp-slot dfp__slot dfp__inread dfp-unloaded" data-format="inread_top" aria-hidden="true"></div> <p class="article__paragraph ">A distinguished professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Butler is currently in France at the invitation of the Centre Pompidou. Since the start of the 2023 academic year, the institution has organized a comprehensive<strong> </strong>series of meetings around their visit through the end of April. 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