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Former University of Illinois professor Steven Salaita received a standing ovation from Middle East scholars and academics from around the world on Saturday afternoon. Salaita, who was terminated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty in September for a series of…
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Jewish groups at UC Berkley campus rally against anti-Israeli events. (photo credit:FACEBOOK) LOS ANGELES – Among the negative fallout around the world following Operation Protective Edge this summer has been an uptick in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment on college campuses…
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Whether one is for or against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a means to change the current situation in Palestine-Israel, it is important to recognize that boycotts are internationally affirmed and constitutionally protected forms of political expression. As non-violent…
read moreOver the last month the UC Santa Barbara student government has been voting on a resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel. As a UCSB graduate and former student leader, I spoke at two senate hearings and worked…
read moreFor some years, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin has been almost the sole faculty voice in the University of California system speaking out against harassment of Jewish students who support Israel. Here is an excerpt from a complaint she filed with the US Department of…
read moreThe traveling panel pilot project began on October 2 and ended on October 5, 2011. While originally we had intended to go to eight campuses in four days we were only able to go to five campuses in two and…
read moreBy Arthur Gross-Schaefer[1] Introduction Academic freedom has often been viewed as defending the rights of professors in the areas of speech, association, research, publication and teaching. This article reviews these areas from a legal and ethical perspective and proposes a…
read morehttp://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=19191 After months of controversy, UCSB has terminated the investigation against global studies and sociology professor William Robinson. Since January, Robinson – who came under fire for forwarding online material to his students that compared Israeli soldiers to Nazis –…
read moreIn a limited sense, the case of William I. Robinson is over. On Wednesday, he was notified that a faculty committee had found no “probable cause” to undertake a full investigation of complaints filed against him related to e-mail messages…
read morehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/uc-santa-barbara-ends-mon_b_220415.html Since late April I have been following the case of Professor William I. Robinson at UCSB, who became the subject of an official university investigation after sending the students in his Sociology of Globalization class an e-mail comparing the…
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