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University of Illinois fires professor for expressing views critical of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza McCarthyism on the rise in America against American Arabs and Muslims By Ray Hanania Dr. Steven G. Salaita, a well-known and highly regarded writer and author in the American Arab community, was fired from his teaching job at the University…
Columbia College reinstates Palestinian professor’s censored class By Ray Hanania Columbia College reinstated a class that had been stripped from Palestinian American Professor Iymen Chehade following weeks of protests from education professionals and activists and within days of receiving a letter of protest from the Israeli director of the film which provoked an anonymous student…
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Podcast Interview: Peter Kirstein discusses Columbia College censorship of Arab professor By Ray Hanania Peter Kirstein, vice president of the Illinois Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), discusses a recent AAUP report which concluded that Columbia College Professor Iymen Chehade had been discriminated against by the College following an anonymous complaint that…
