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In 2014, Steven Salaita’s venomous tweets about Israel cost him his tenured faculty appointment at the University of Illinois. Five years later, he is working as a school bus driver in suburban ...
In the summer of 2014, professor Steven Salaita became the center of a national controversy when his job offer at the University of Illinois was rescinded as a result of his vicious tweets about ...
Steven G. Salaita was promised, then denied, a tenured position in the program in American Indian studies at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. Since then, the program has dwindled, its faculty pulled away ...
As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, " Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom," on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday ...
As Steven Salaita told his Olympia audience, when opponents of the movement for Palestinian liberation must resort to attacks on First Amendment rights and academic freedom, ...
Steven Salaita, a former professor whose revoked job offer in 2014 stirred national controversy, says he now drives a school bus. Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty Images ...
The University of Illinois should bite the bullet and offer a job to controversial scholar Steven Salaita, who was denied an appointment by the Urbana-Champaign campus last year due to his vile ...
No one following the Steven Salaita case was surprised Thursday when the displaced scholar announced he’s suing top administrators of the University of Illinois System and its Urbana-Champaign campus.
My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $ 875, 000 — far less than the assumed amount of ...
Writing in Tablet, Liel Leibovitz concludes that it "should not qualify as scholarship." But at least Salaita is absolutely, definitely, unequivocally not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism.
[UPDATE: Salaita’s Goodreads site was apparently scrubbed within and hour and half of this post going up. The original links below, working at 10:14, now do not, though I’ve added some cached ...
A month ago, when I reported that the University of Illinois had apparently hired and then fired professor Steven Salaita because of his anti-Israel tweets, the UI administration wasn’t talking ...