<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429119655522_8919" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429119655522_8920">Although I would add that there's no reason to even imply that it is at all debatable that Salaita is anti-Semitic, or that his scholarship or teaching (i.e., job qualifications) are of dubious merit in the context of his field. This should not be framed as a matter of protecting "despised" speech, although that is the standard. Nor is there any reason to downplay the substantive nature of the BOT's actions in terms of the I/P conflict and profitable relationships with Israel, and perhaps in the larger context of the relations of academia with USFP and the military-industrial complex. Once the academic freedom/civil liberties issue is addressed, those issues will remain and should also be addressed. As long as academia is part and parcel of all of these wealth/power relationships, then the primary context of these outrages will remain. I appreciate liberal ethics when applied consistently, but that should be the absolute minimum to expect. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429119655522_10968" dir="ltr"><span></span> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429119655522_11883" dir="ltr"><span>DG</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:44 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5754982794"><div><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 clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv5754982794gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="yiv5754982794gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br clear="none">Policy Director<br clear="none">Just Foreign Policy<br clear="none"><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br clear="none"><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br clear="none"><div><span style="text-align: left;">(202) 448-2898 x1</span><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div>
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<div>A prominent Holocaust scholar has canceled a
prestigious lecture at the <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/university-illinois-urbana-champaign" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">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" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">Steven Salaita</a>.</div>
<div>Professor <a href="http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/people/faculty/presner/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">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" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">Phyllis Wise</a> to tell her he
would not visit the campus as long as she was in
charge.</div>
<div>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" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">full text</a> and a PDF copy are
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
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