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Steven Salaita on Palestine and the limits of academic freedom

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Saturday, April 25th 2015

7:30 pm

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Israel's military aggression in Gaza in the summer of 2014 resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinian civilians, including children. Homes, schools, UN centers and hospitals were bombed. The infrastructure of Gaza was all but destroyed. This was the reality that Professor Salaita tweeted his opposition to. The University of Illinois at Champaign‐Urbana, which had offered him a job, then fired him on the order of the U of I board. Do professors have a right to be outraged by events in the world and to speak about them forcefully outside of their classrooms? How does the new McCarthyism impact efforts to support Palestinian rights on college campuses? Are some ideas open for debate and others off limits? Join us as Steven Salaita speaks out about censorship and Palestine.

About Steven Salaita

Steven Salaita is a critical scholar focusing on Indigenous Studies, whose pathbreaking work places the history of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance in North America in a global context. He is the author of of six books, most recently Israel's Dead Soul. Steven Salaita's vocal criticism of Israeli brutal military actions in the Gaza strip resulted in being fired from a position he had yet to even start at the University of Illinois, one which he had already left his former position as a Professor of English at Virgina Tech to accept. For more information about his case, please see this article from The Nation.

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