Political Views
The Guardian described Rose as a "polemicist on the left." His friend and collaborator Patrick Bateson wrote that Rose "may be the last of the Marxist radical scientists," adding that "Steven is not always right; but he has been very brave in some of the things he has said."
Steven Rose, together with sociologist Hilary Rose has been instrumental in calling to boycott Israeli academic institutions for as long as Israel continues its illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territories, on the grounds of Israel academics' close relationship with the IDF. An open letter initiated by Steven and Hilary Rose, and also signed by 123 other academics was published in The Guardian on 6 April 2002. In 2004 he was one of the founding members of the British Committee for Universities of Palestine.
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