Monday, April 27, 2015

TO DO: Academic Freedom/Steven Salaita
Source: Rima Merriman (Elecronic Infitada)/Change.org

https://www.change.org/p/phyllis-m-wise-we-demand-corrective-action-on-the-scandalous-firing-of-palestinian-american-professor-dr-steven-salaita

We demand corrective action on the scandalous firing of Palestinian-American professor, Dr. Steven Salaita

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has just severed their contract of employment with the brilliant, ethical, and prolific Dr. Steven Salaita for his political views on Israel, effectively firing him the very month he was to take up a tenured position there. This is also an insult to the Department of American Indian Studies that was not consulted in this administrative decision.

It appears that we live in a world where students get paid to post state propaganda while professors/journalists get FIRED for exposing it in the name of truth and justice.

We demand his immediate reinstatement.

For information about this case and academic freedom generally, please go to the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel website
http://www.usacbi.org/
Letter to
Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Phyllis M. Wise
Department of American Indian Studies (UIUC) Robert Warrior
We demand corrective action on the scandalous firing of Palestinian-American professor, Dr. Steven Salaita


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