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

[Robert Naiman]

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.




Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  What a beautiful letter.   Congratulations to Prof. Presner.   And thanks
> Robert for passing it along to us.
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> On 4/15/15 12:01 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss wrote:
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> 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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