The measure criticizes the school’s chancellor for saying a presentation to dorm advisers on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was
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Alcohol reportedly played a role in the crime, and it did not appear to be motivated by anti-Semitism.
University of Illinois at Chicago’s campus community spoke out against anti-Semitic fliers and the suggestion that other minorities wrote them.
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.
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.
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.
Steven Salaita, the controversial professor whose tweets about Israel cost him his university position, tells the Forward he has a message for pro-Israel students: Don’t worry.