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

[Stuart Levy]

What a beautiful letter.   Congratulations to Prof. Presner.   And 
thanks Robert for passing it along to us.


On 4/15/15 12:01 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss wrote:
> 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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