[Peace-discuss] Fwd: revocation of Salaita's job offer

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/06/another-professor-punished-for-anti-israel-views/

"...in recent years [Cary] Nelson has become an outspoken defender of the State of Israel and a critic of the BDS movement..." 

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.

--CGE

On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Paul Mueth via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>> I wrote Wise with her own quote at time of ASA BDS issue. 
>> 
>> 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...."
>> 
>> Cary Nelson was on Dem Now at that time and was awful. He apparently wanted to outdo himself. 
>> http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets
>> 
>> Wretched times. 
>> 
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