http://chronicle.com/news/article/2462/depaul-rejects-tenure-bid-by-finkelstein-and-says-dershowitz-pressure-played-no-role Norman G. Finkelstein, the controversial political scientist who has been engaged in a highly public battle for tenure at DePaul University, learned today that he had lost that fight. In a written statement released to The Chronicle, the university…
read morehttp://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/14/dershowitzCallsForAShiftInDialogue Noted Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz decried the state of dialogue surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on college campuses during a speech last night in a less-than-half-full Memorial Auditorium. “In the place of debate, we have name-calling, dehumanization, polemics and…
read moreIn her 1951 best seller, “The Groves of Academe,” Mary McCarthyfictionalized a failed academic who, realizing he wouldn’t get tenure,became a communist so that he could claim that he was being denied tenurebecause he was a Red rather than a…
read morehttp://media.www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2007/04/12/EditorialOpinion/Unethical.Sponsorship-2836258.shtml The time has come for UMass’ academic departments to be held responsible for particular speakers and events they sponsor on campus. No departments deserve more scrutiny here than those of political science and sociology, as well as the Middle…
read moreThe case of Thomas Klocek is now poised to go to trial. On April 10, Hon. Daniel J. Kelley, a judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County, upheld six of the eight legal counts leveled against DePaul and others.…
read moreThe highly public feud between Norman G. Finkelstein of DePaul University and Harvard Law School’s Alan M. Dershowitz has taken an unusual procedural twist, with Mr. Dershowitz attempting to weigh in on Mr. Finkelstein’s bid for tenure at DePaul. How…
read moreNorman G. Finkelstein has been more controversial off his campus than on it. On his frequent speaking tours to colleges, where he typically discusses Israel in highly critical ways, Finkelstein draws protests and debates. When the University of California Press…
read more( Allyson Taylor, formerly of American Jewish Congress and StandWithUs.com has sent SPME a copy of an email from Norman Finkelstein to her that this article by John Wilson “is correct.” SPME is waiting for official confirmation.) I’ve heard reports…
read moreRecently Norman Finkelstein has been making the rounds of American college campuses-Stanford, Brandeis, Harvard, Bryn Mawr, Northwestern and more-having been invited by various departments, groups and individuals. Many of the people extending the invitations are unaware that by inviting this…
read moreBrandeis University students seeking to bring a controversial critic of Israel to campus were finally granted a date and place Monday; then told an hour later the venue was not available, after all; then offered an alternative venue the next…
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