<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Cary has become incoherent: <<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets</a>>.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:46 PM, C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><a href="http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/06/another-professor-punished-for-anti-israel-views/">http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/06/another-professor-punished-for-anti-israel-views/</a></div><div><br></div><div>"...in recent years [Cary] Nelson has become an outspoken defender of the State of Israel and a critic of the BDS movement..." </div><div><br></div><div>I don't think BDS is above criticism - Chomsky and Finkelstein makes sense on the subject, it seems to me - nor do I think the question of academic boycott (in fact a vague phrase) is open and shut. But the Salaita matter is clear, and I'm appalled to find Cary Nelson on the wrong side of it.</div><div><br></div><div>--CGE</div><br><div><div>On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Paul Mueth via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I wrote Wise with her own quote at time of ASA BDS issue. </span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In case this hasn't already been posted, here's Wise on the ASA support for a boycott: "At Illinois, we value academic freedom as one of our core principles and cherish the critical importance of the ability of faculty to pursue learning, discovery and engagement without regard to political considerations...."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Cary Nelson was on Dem Now at that time and was awful. He apparently wanted to outdo himself. </span></div><div><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets</a></div><div><br></div><div>Wretched times. </div><div><br></div><div><span><image.jpeg></span></div></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>