Tweet Against Israel, Lose Your Job

MVictorP · Aug 26, 2014

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Abigail Tracy said:

Tweet Something Edgy About the War in Gaza, Kiss Your Job Goodbye
An Illinois university pulled the rug out from under a professor after he shared his views on Israel's policies

Universities are a warm, safe place where you can speak your mind freely and ideas are nurtured like chicks in an incubator.
Unless, of course, you happen to be talking about Israel and Gaza.

Take the case of professor, er, ex-professor Steven Salaita. After publicly resigning from his post at Virginia Tech, he was set to join the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s American Indian studies program this month. That was, of course, until he took to Twitter to share his views on the Gaza conflict, screwing himself out of a job in the process. As Inside Higher Ed reports, the university rescinded after he hopped on social media and released a flurry of anti-Israel tweets.

@stevesalaita

"Hamas" is the biggest red herring in American political discourse since Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction."

When will the attack on Gaza end? What is left for Israel to prove? Who is left for Israel to kill? This is the logic of genocide.

Members of the Knesset routinely call for the elimination of Palestinians, so Israel can spare us the bull(*)(*)(*)(*) about restraint in Gaza.

Israel gets billions in aid, arms, and financial subsidies from the US, yet most Americans condemn imaginary Black women for welfare.

Israel's message to Obama and Kerry: we'll kill as many Palestinians as we want, when we want. p.s.: (*)(*)(*)(*) you, pay me.

Now that’s all fairly fiery, but it’s not really out of the norm. Such being the case, the school originally defended Salaita to critics, arguing that he was exercising his right to free speech. In a July 22 article, The News-Gazette quoted a university spokeswoman who said, “Faculty have a wide range of scholarly and political views, and we recognize the freedom-of-speech rights of all our employees.”

Clearly, the school reevaluated that decision.

This isn’t even the first time that Salaita’s political views have come under scrutiny. He wrote a Salon article last year questioning public pressure to “support the troops” that was not very popular.

Salaita is far from the first teacher to fall victim to a university’s need to protect its public image in and the right of hires to tout their beliefs. Just off the top of our heads, we can think of the University of Colorado’s decision to fire professor Ward Churchill over controversial statements he made about the victims of 9/11, or the situation Northwestern University professor Michael Bailey found himself in after he held a controversial after-class demonstration that has delicately been dubbed the “(*)(*)(*)(*)saw incident.”

Perhaps professors should consider hiring social media managers.
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Such is the force of the pro-zionist lobby in the 'states. I give you guys only a few years before your right of expression becomes limited, as it is in Canada, on a background of thunderous applause.

CatholicCrusader · Aug 26, 2014

MVictorP said: ↑

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Such is the force of the pro-zionist lobby in the 'states. I give you guys only a few years before your right of expression becomes limited, as it is in Canada, on a background of thunderous applause.
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I seem to remember some other guy who wanted to take away free speech and who disliked the Jews. Who was that guy...... ...???

John stromer · Aug 26, 2014

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