This is a guest post from Mira Sucharov, an  Associate Professor at Carleton University.  Particularly in areas of contested politics — controversial policy issues, protracted conflict, clashing narratives, and the like — how much responsibility do authors have to remain unbiased? It’s a problematic word, bias. It’s almost always used either in the context of accusation or in ingratiating self-deprecation. But what if we shift from the term bias to the more encompassing — and less value-laden term — subjectivity? I recently reviewed four books on Israel and Israeli-Palestinian relations for...