[Peace-discuss] L'ordre regne (as was said in Paris in '68) in Illinois

[Robert Naiman]

"The glass is half-full":

1. The case brought down then-Chancellor Wise, when it was exposed that she
had deliberately used private email to conduct University business in the
case in order to avoid scrutiny and accountability. The interim chancellor
appointed in her stead has been a champion of resolving the dispute with
Salaita.

2. The case showed the power of concerned academics in other institutions
to exert real pressure on the University in a way that affected the
University's calculus (much like the NCAA sanctions regarding the Chief
mascot.) The AAUP censure is perceived as a real thing here; one of the
arguments given here for settling the case with Salaita is that this is a
key step towards lifting the AAUP sanction; this was prominently noted in
the massmail that went out today from the interim chancellor. Also, the
boycott was perceived as a real thing here, damaging the University's
reputation, making it harder to recruit, making it easier for people to get
hired away by other institutions.

3. The University has been going out of its way on other fronts to prove
that it is not anti-Palestinian. Salaita may not be on the UIUC faculty,
but Sayed Kashua is. "It's an ill wind that blows no man good." :)

An Exile in the Corn Belt
Israel’s funniest Palestinian writer decamps to the Midwest.
BY RUTH MARGALIT
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/an-exile-in-the-corn-belt

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:18 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>
> http://academeblog.org/2015/11/12/university-of-illinois-pays-875000-to-settle-salaita-case/
>
> The neoliberal university has won. (And it cost them less than half of
> firing an athletic director, for cause.)
>
> What new faculty hire (or old faculty, for that matter) at UIUC will now
> take the chance of condemning Israel/US war crimes?
>
> Anyone associated with universities knows how it's been done, since WWI.
> Excuses can always be found for punishing thought-crimes, regardless of
> 'academic freedom.'
> What the UI administrators did wrong was let it get out of hand. Steven
> Salaita's career should have been quietly brought to an end much earlier,
> if he was going to talk like that. Read e.g. about the case of Scott
> Nearing and many others over the last century.
>
> UI administrators were punished for ineptitude, not for violating academic
> freedom: that's part of their job.
>
> —CGE
>
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