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 [...]
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November 12th, 2015 - 4:29 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
U. of Illinois settles with Steve Salaita
Emails Show That Former UW Chancellor Phyllis Wise Violated Steven Salaita’s Rights
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION, a website has published the emails between the community at University of Illiinois and Phyllis Wise. These emails confirm that she received a deluge of emails from the Jewish community demanding that she fire Professor Salaita. She has also been found guilty by the nation[...]
April 30th, 2015 - 11:06 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
AAUP Investigation Condemns Phyllis Wise and UI for Violating Steve Salaita’s Academic Freedom
In a nutshell, the national AAUP has found that there is no evidence that Phyllis Wise made her decision about Salaita based on any valid concern with his scholarship. What basis could there be other than pressure from advocates for Israel? This is not new behavior to those of us w[...]
April 22nd, 2015 - 9:58 am § in Misc.
Another Salaita? The Witch Hunt at Northwest Nazarene University
Last March, the day before April Fools, Tom Oord got an email saying he was fired. Karl W. Giberson , a former professor at an evangelical Christian college. reports of evangelical colleague whose tenure was terminated fired because of a conflict not with other faculty or students but because[...]
April 9th, 2015 - 8:34 am § in America
Salaita Calls Me a “Zionist”
This AM I awoke to receive a message that Salaita has been posting an ad hominem attack on Twitter about me. Instead of identifying me by name he uses an epithet ..calling me a “Zionist professor.” He is correct, I am a Jew and a Zionist. I believe Jews AND Palestinians both have [...]
April 8th, 2015 - 9:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Photographic Response to Steven Salaita’s Claim that Antizionism is not Antisemitism
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April 8th, 2015 - 7:39 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
You Tube Video of Steve Salaita’s Talk at UW Kane Hall
Video of the talk by Steven Salaita at the University of Washington. Professor Salaita speaks about free speech, his own dismissal by the University of Illinois, and the rights of the Palestinians. For comment and background, READMORE ON TA.[...]
September 9th, 2014 - 4:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Fruitless Attack on Salaita’s Academic Work
According to a report in Tablet, a liberal Jewish website, Steven Salaita’s appointment at University of Illinois was to a job in Illinois’ American Indian Studies Department. However, the author Liel Leibovitz was unable to find any evidence that Salaita had published an[...]
September 5th, 2014 - 9:03 pm § in Schools & Colleges
A Lawyer’s View Of The Salaita Controversy
I don’t know if Prof. Steven G. Salaita plans to sue the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne for retracting its offer of a tenured faculty position because of his inflammatory “tweets” about Israel. But let’s pretend he does, just for discussion purposes. A legal out[...]
Salaita Wants War
SHOULD A WAR HAWK BE A PROFESSOR? Last night I went to hear Steven Salaita’s talk. He was invited to speak after Phyllis Wise, the former UW Provost and now Chancellor of the University of Illinois, overturned an offer by her school to hire Salaita for his expertise in the sociology of the conq[...]