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After 9/11: Canada, the Israel/Palestine Conflict, and the Surveillance of Public Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Yasmeen Abu-Laban  and
Abigail B. Bakan
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, The University of Alberta, 10-16 H.M. Tory Bldg, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4
Abigail B. Bakan
Affiliation:
Department of Gender Studies, Queen's University, Mackintosh-Corry Hall D504, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
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CanadaIsraelPalestineSurveillanceFree SpeechCanadaIsraëlPalestinesurveillanceliberté d'expression
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , December 2012 , pp. 319 - 339
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* Research related to this article has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. An earlier version of this article was presented at “The Expanding Surveillance Net” Workshop, Queen's University, Kingston09 9, 2011Google Scholar. For helpful comments we thank Kevin Haggerty, as well as the anonymous reviewers for this journal.

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