Why are America's elite universities so afraid of this scholar's paper?

Full paper:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24733670/toward-nakba...

You can just go read the paper here:

https://columbialawreview.org/content/toward-nakba-as-a-lega...

What I see there is just the introduction, but not the full paper.

There is supposed to be a link to the full PDF somewhere, but the link doesn’t appear for me.

Now you can.

Perhaps because it's hard to take the paper seriously without a consideration of Israel's point of view?

I'm not trying to justify any of Israel's actions. I personally have mixed opinions, and for some, I do think that serious international crimes have been committed.

But the doesn't take into account that at least some of Israel's actions might legitimately be motivated by self defense. That's not how you formulate a framework; that's how you concoct a screed. It's a list of grievances, not an argument.