[Peace-discuss] Holocaust scholar cancels prestigious Illinois lecture over Steven Salaita firing

[Robert Naiman]

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/holocaust-scholar-cancels-prestigious-illinois-lecture-over-steven-salaita-firing
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A prominent Holocaust scholar has canceled a prestigious lecture at
the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
<http://electronicintifada.net/tags/university-illinois-urbana-champaign>
in protest over the firing of Professor Steven Salaita
<http://electronicintifada.net/tags/steven-salaita>.

Professor Todd Samuel Presner
<http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/people/faculty/presner/>, the director of
Jewish studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), wrote
to UIUC Chancellor Phyllis Wise
<http://electronicintifada.net/tags/phyllis-wise> to tell her he would not
visit the campus as long as she was in charge.

His letter, dated 28 March and addressed to Wise and UIUC trustees, was
publicly released today (full text
<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/holocaust-scholar-cancels-prestigious-illinois-lecture-over-steven-salaita-firing#letter>
and a PDF copy are below).

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.

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.
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