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发帖数: 33885 | 1 千骂万骂，你不能骂美帝的爹啊！一骂，associate professor的工作也没了。
当然，犹托们会说活该。
An outspoken critic of Israel's role in the latest conflict in Gaza appears
to have had his job offer at a major university retracted due to his tweets
and public comments on the matter.
Steven Salaita, previously an associate professor in the English Department
at Virginia Tech University, was initially offered a position with the
American Indian Studies program at University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, but Chancellor Phyllis Wise has since blocked his appointment,
Inside Higher Ed reported Wednesday.
The university declined to comment to Inside Higher Ed on why Salaita's
appointment was blocked when typically a post like his, having already been
made public, would only require the formality of the school's board of
trustees' approval before being confirmed. The university has also not
responded to a HuffPost request for comment as of publication date.
Reports by Inside Higher Ed and the Daily-Gazette indicate that Salaita's
anti-Israel tweets on the conflict in Gaza, which had recently received some
media attention, was the reason why the author's offer of employment was
rescinded.
The American Association of University Professors' Illinois committee on
Wednesday issued a statement describing the professor's words as "stridden
and vulgar" but also "an impassioned plea to end the violence currently
taking place in the Middle East."
"Speech that is deemed controversial should be challenged with further
speech that may abhor and challenge a statement," the AAUP statement
continues. "Yet the University of Illinois cannot cancel an appointment
based upon Twitter statements that are protected speech in the United States
of America."
However, Cary Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois and
the former president of the AAUP, appeared on HuffPost Live Thursday (
embedded above) to address the controversy, saying his would-be colleague
had "stepped over a line" with not only the tone but also the content of his
comments on the Gaza conflict. Nelson said that he supported the university
's decision.
A university spokeswoman had previously defended Salaita's hiring to the
News-Gazette, telling the newspaper late last month, "Faculty have a wide
range of scholarly and political views, and we recognize the freedom-of-
speech rights of all of our employees." |
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