[Peace] [Peace-discuss] 11:30AM Tue Sep 9th: demonstration in support of Steven Salaita -- was: Upcoming campus-wide event

[David Green via Peace]

http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2014-06-03/kilgore-controversy-about-60s-conflicts.html
 Here is a letter I published in June. Certainly, this is part of the same problem. Unfortunately, AWARE did not plan the demonstration.

DG 


On Saturday, September 6, 2014 5:33 PM, ya'aQov via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
  

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>I challenge the statement this is a protest of the attack on academic freedom and free speech.
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>Were it such protest, James Kilgore need be added to the names representing UIUC's attack on freedom of speech and academic freedom.  
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>People on this list know James Kilgore's discharge was a blatant such attack as well.  Yet they say nothing about it.  The reason they say nothing, is so the pro-Palestinian issue be the only focus, not  the academic freedom one.
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>Alas, James did not have the Qatar oiled propaganda to support him.
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