The chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), who was involved in firing Professor Steven Salaita over tweets he sent about Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, has announced her resignation yesterday. The announcement comes as a federal judge refused to dismiss Salaita’s lawsuit against the university for violating his free speech.
Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise cited “external issues,” which have “arisen over the past year” and “distracted” the university from “important tasks at hand,” as reason for leaving the chancellor’s position. By “external issues,” Wise was referring to a major backlash against the university for improperly terminating Salaita when he had a tenured position with the university.
Salaita sued the university in September for allegedly violating his First Amendment free speech rights, depriving him of “procedural due process rights,” conspiring to deprive him of his job, breaching his contract, interfering with Salaita’s contractual and business relations, and intentionally inflicting emotional distress on him.
He also filed a claim against Wise for destroying a two-page memo containing evidence on why he was fired.
You can read the rest @
http://shadowproof.com/2015/08/07/u-of-i-chancellor-resigns-as-judge-rules-in-favor-of-professor-fired-over-gaza-tweets/
And here is a critique of Chancellor Wise's defense of her firing of Professor Salaita:
http://academeblog.org/2014/08/22/chancellor-phyllis-wise-explains-the-firing-of-steven-salaita/
I side 100% with Professor Salaita.
Why do the war criminals in Israel have such a choke hold on the United States? It's time we break it and stop facilitating their lawlessness.
B-D-S !!! B-D-S !!! B-D-S !!! B-D-S !!! B-D-S !!! B-D-S !!!
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