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Fast Forward U. Of Illinois Student Government Resolution: Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — The University of Illinois student government passed a resolution that distinguishes anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism. The resolution, which passed in a 29-4 vote, criticizes Chancellor Robert Jones for having said a presentation to dorm advisers on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was anti-Semitic. Many pro-Israel and Jewish students who were critical of the…
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Fast Forward University Of Illinois Students Charged With Vandalizing Chabad Menorah
(JTA) — Two University of Illinois students will be charged with a felony for vandalizing the menorah in front of the Urbana-Champaign school’s Chabad Center for Jewish Life. Jacob Bassler and Nicholas Gustafson, both 18, turned themselves in to university police, the local Fox News affiliate reported. Security cameras caught two people pushing a shopping…
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Fast Forward University Of Illinois Campus Community Condemns ‘Jewish Privilege’ Fliers
Following the circulation on campus of posters claiming that “ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” a wide range of faculty and student groups at the University of Illinois at Chicago denounced the fliers as hateful and potentially alienating. “We condemn these anti-Semitic assaults as well as the divisive suggestion that Black and Muslim…
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Breaking News University of Illinois Settles With Steven Salaita for $875,000
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 Salaita, 40, had sued the university for violation of his rights to free speech, saying that donors had pressured trustees…
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Breaking News Steven Salaita Sues University of Illinois Over Loss of Tenured Post
A professor who lost out on a tenured position at the University of Illinois after he made Twitter postings critical of Israel claimed in a lawsuit on Thursday that the university violated his rights to free speech under the U.S. Constitution. Steven Salaita said in his lawsuit that university donors pressured trustees to withdraw their…
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Breaking News Steven Salaita Rebuffed By University of Illinois Trutsees
University of Illinois trustees voted overwhelmingly on Thursday not to reinstate Steven Salaita, whose Twitter postings about Israel caused him to lose a promised faculty job, sparking debate about academic freedom and the use of social media. Salaita, a former tenured professor of English at Virginia Tech, accepted a tenured professorship in October 2013 to…
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Israel News Steven Salaita Speaks Out
The controversial professor, whose harsh and at times vulgar postings on Israel cost him his university position, has a message to pro-Israel students who may feel intimidated by his views. “I’ve never, ever punished a student for expressing a particular point of view or for adhering to a particular ideology and I never will,” Steven…
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