<div dir="ltr">I have to say that I have been impressed and even surprised by the principled reaction of many, many Jewish liberals in academia to the Salaita case. Cary Nelson is an outlier. Most Jewish liberals in the academy who have spoken out seem to see it as a clear-cut free speech and academic freedom case. Which, of course, it is. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Stuart Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>A prominent Holocaust scholar has canceled a
prestigious lecture at the <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/university-illinois-urbana-champaign" target="_blank">University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)</a> in protest over the
firing of Professor <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/steven-salaita" target="_blank">Steven Salaita</a>.</p>
<p>Professor <a href="http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/people/faculty/presner/" target="_blank">Todd Samuel Presner</a>, the
director of Jewish studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA), wrote to UIUC
Chancellor <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/phyllis-wise" target="_blank">Phyllis Wise</a> to tell her he
would not visit the campus as long as she was in
charge.</p>
<p>His letter, dated 28 March and addressed to Wise
and UIUC trustees, was publicly released today (<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/holocaust-scholar-cancels-prestigious-illinois-lecture-over-steven-salaita-firing#letter" target="_blank">full text</a> and a PDF copy are
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<p>Presner had been scheduled to deliver the 2014-15
Rosenthal Lecture, titled “A Message in a Bottle:
Holocaust Testimony and the Jewish Future,” on 27
April.</p>
<p>He said a workshop also planned during his visit
would not be canceled, but would be moved off
campus and he would not accept any funding or
payment from UIUC.</p>
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