Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
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Isn't this the whole point of tenure? To protect academic freedom?
“The reason? She had shared, on her personal Instagram account, in a temporary story slide, a post written not by herself but by Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi calling for the shunning of Zionist ideology and its supporters.”
Using "Zionist" as a protected class to fire a Jewish professor. Yes, very good.