The University of Illinois said on Thursday that it would pay $875,000 to settle a lawsuit by a professor who lost out on a tenured position after he made Twitter postings critical of Israel. Steven...
Steven Salaita reached a $875,000 settlement with the University of Illinois after he sued the school for firing him because of his tweets during the war on Gaza last year. The university fired...
On an 8 to 1 vote… University of Illinois Trustees have signed off on an 875-thousand dollar settlement with Steven Salaita. The professor who lost his job offer at the U of I last year over a series...
In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, George W. Bush shredded the U.S. Constitution, trampled on the Bill of Rights, discarded the Geneva Conventions, and heaped scorn on the...
More than a year after firing Dr. Steven Salaita from a tenured faculty position for publishing personal tweets critical of Israel's 2014 military assault on Gaza, the University of Illinois at...
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has reached a settlement of $875,000 for firing a professor over his anti-Israel tweets. UIUC fired Steven Salaita for tweets criticizing “the...
As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
Freedom Flicks in partnership with DCTV is excited to announce that we will co-host a free screening of Laura Poitras’ suspenseful documentary, CITIZENFOUR on Wednesday December 16th. Join us...
With a wealthy donor's behind-the-scenes influence and a university chancellor's use of a private email account, the withdrawal of a professor's job offer became both a mystery to unravel and a...
My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000--far less than the assumed amount of wages...
