“Why don’t you get me a f**cking job at your institution if you care so much about my well-being,” tweeted on July 9 Steven Salaita, a would-be academic who destroyed his career with anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter and elsewhere. Accordingly forced in 2014 into a self-described “honest living” as a school bus driver near Washington, […]
Steven Salaita Brings His War on Civility (and His Pity Party) to Stanford
Steven Salaita Brings His War on Civility (and His Pity Party) to Stanford by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene The notion that words such as “civility” and “divisive” have clear definitions is under attack by academic moral relativists who grant themselves the right to twist words to mean whatever aids their quest for power. A […]
Steven Salaita Imagines a Palestinian Garden of Eden
Steven Salaita Imagines a Palestinian Garden of Eden by Andrew Harrod Palestine “will never be decolonized unless it is first demythologized,” stated Steven Salaita, a controversial academic whose job offer from the University of Illinois was rescinded last summer after a series of anti-Semitic tweets came to light. Speaking on “Natural History Under Siege” before […]
‘Palestinian Rights Activism’ Panel Turns Perpetrators into Victims
‘Palestinian Rights Activism’ Panel Turns Perpetrators into Victims by Andrew Harrod Israel is a twenty-first century “litmus test of a real commitment to justice,” the “Vietnam,” the “South Africa,” and “moral issue of our time” according to leftwing icon Angela Davis, quoted approvingly by Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi on November 21 before an audience […]