[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Steven Salaita and Ali Abunimah at University of Chicago - Labor Beat on YouTube

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

Does anybody have Steven Salaita's e-mail or other contact info ?

Larry Duncan of " LABOR BEAT " in Chicago would like to contact him in 
regards to this film.

David Johnson




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*Steven Salaita and Ali Abunimah*
*at University of Chicago*
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*On YouTube at:*
*http://youtu.be/A8GK19gpaOU*
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During a Chicago-area universities tour, Professor Steven Salaita spoke 
at the University of Chicago on October 7, 2014. He was joined by 
Electronic Intifada author Ali Abunimah. The topic of this meeting was 
to discuss the facts and implications concerning why a job offer made to 
Prof. Salaita in August at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign 
(UIUC) was withdrawn by the administration, following his public tweets 
criticizing Israel over the bombing of Gaza and killing of over 500 
children there.

Salaita is introduced by Brian Leiter, professor of Jurisprudence at the 
University of Chicago. Professor Leiter comments on the legal 
circumstances. "That First Amendment right does not come with a caveat 
to the effect that only civil or respectful expression is actually 
protected...Yet the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees of the 
University of Illinois have acted as though they have a right to punish 
speakers who say "f**k" the draft or f**k America or f**k Israel. But 
they have no such right."

Salaita and Abunimah focused on the key issues of what Salaita's firing 
means in the critical battle on U.S. campuses over academic freedom, and 
in American society in general over the first amendment and U.S. foreign 
policy.

Salaita is amply quotable. Israel wants Palestinians to think of 
themselves "that our barbarity is atavistic and imminent. It precedes 
our subjectivity, restricts our earthly presence and marks us as 
inferior. We can achieve the lofty status of pitiable only when we grovel."

Ali Abunimah reveals documents showing the interference of UIUC's 
wealthy Zionist donors in the Salaita affair. Abunimah also speaks of 
his valuable research on the Zionist rightwing roadmap for manipulating 
political thought on American campuses: "Key pro-Israel lobby groups, 
like the David Project, have said in their own internal strategy 
documents that the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship will be 
decided on campuses...and they actually identify as positive trends for 
Israel the corporatization of higher education, the growth of private, 
for-profit education...and business schools that are growing at the 
expense of the humanities as a trend that is positive for Israel...They 
also talk about the kinds of tactics that are to be used at a very 
specific level... [The David Project says] in the long term efforts must 
be made to limit the ability for faculty members to use their positions 
to propagandize against the Jewish state...In the interim accusing 
faculty members who propagandize against Israel of academic malpractice 
is likely to be a much more effective strategy than challenging specific 
allegations or invoking anti-Jewish bigotry."

The two-hour event has been carefully edited down to 28 minutes to fit 
our time slot on cable-tv. Shot with two cameras with quality audio via 
XLR output. Suitable for presentation to classrooms. Length - 28:10

Steve Salaita. He lost a tenured job at University of Illinois over his pro-
Palestinian tweets. Photo: Steve Dalber / Labor Beat

Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, defending Salaita. Photo: Steve 
Dalber / Labor Beat

Audience at University of Chicago's International House hears about the
Steven Salaita affair. Photo: Steve Dalber / Labor Beat


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