Editing Judith Butler (section)

===Adorno Prize affair===
[[File:Adorno-preis-2012-judith-butler-ffm-287.jpg|thumb|upright|Butler receives the [[Theodor W. Adorno Award]] in 2012]]
When Butler received the 2012 [[Theodor W. Adorno Award]], the prize committee came under attack from Israel's Ambassador to Germany, [[Yacov Hadas-Handelsman]]; the director of the [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]]'s office in Jerusalem, [[Efraim Zuroff]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Envoy-to-Germany-Awardee-ignores-terror-on-Israel|title=Envoy to Germany: Awardee ignores terror on Israel|last=BENJAMIN WEINTHAL|date=2012-08-28|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> and the [[Central Council of Jews in Germany|German Central Council of Jews]]. They were upset at Butler's selection because of their remarks about Israel, and specifically, "calls for a boycott against Israel".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4274289,00.html|title=German Jews oppose award for US philosopher|date=August 29, 2012|newspaper=Ynetnews|access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> Butler responded saying that "[Butler] did not take attacks from German Jewish leaders personally".<ref name="JTA-2012" /> Rather, they wrote, the attacks are "directed against everyone who is critical against Israel and its current policies."<ref name="JTA-2012">{{cite journal|last=JTA|title=Frankfurt ripped for honoring Jewish-American scholar who backs Israel boycott|journal=Haaretz|date=7 September 2012|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/frankfurt-ripped-for-honoring-jewish-american-scholar-who-backs-israel-boycott-1.463424|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref>

In a letter to the ''[[Mondoweiss]]'' website, Butler wrote that their strong ethical views were grounded in Jewish philosophical thought and that it is "blatantly untrue, absurd, and painful for anyone to argue that those who formulate a criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitic or, if Jewish, self-hating".<ref name=mondoweiss>{{cite web|last=Butler|first=Judith|title=Judith Butler responds to attack: 'I affirm a Judaism that is not associated with state violence'|url=http://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/judith-butler-responds-to-attack-i-affirm-a-judaism-that-is-not-associated-with-state-violence.html|publisher=Mondoweiss|access-date=9 October 2013|date=27 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228153648/http://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/judith-butler-responds-to-attack-i-affirm-a-judaism-that-is-not-associated-with-state-violence.html|archive-date=December 28, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>