The University of Illinois yanked a job offer to Salaita after he tweeted “incendiary statements about Israel” during its Gaza offensive last year. He sued, and the university settled with him today. Some people thought it was about academic freedom and free speech. To others, it was a personnel issue. Salaita won’t get to be a professor there, but he walks away with $600,000 of compensation for the withdrawn job offer. Read the story here.