Palestinian Professor Refuses to Apologize for Antisemitic Tweets

Sven Longshanks
Daily Stormer
September 22, 2014

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Steven Salaita was just tweeting the truth about Israel’s behavior in Palestine.

For once, a professor’s dismissal for not showing preferential treatment to the Jews has brought on a torrent of criticism from other academics across the country.

Unfortunately, this appears to be just because he is Non-White, as it is unheard of for academics to defend the free speech rights of White people when they criticize Jewry.  They are usually second only to the Jews themselves in crying out for the truth speaker to be dismissed and silenced.

It is good that he is refusing to apologize though.

Fox 24:

A college professor who lost his job over anti-Semitic tweets is angry about losing the gig, but not sorry about his Twitter missives.

Steven Salaita, who was set to begin teaching at the University of Illinois this fall, says he was simply speaking his mind when he tweeted out messages during Israel’s military conflict in Gaza earlier this year. But the school deemed the tweets offensive and pulled its offer of a tenured position in its American Indian studies program.

“We believe that our classrooms ought to be a place where opinions, regardless of their origin or their perspective, ought to be able to be offered freely and students not feel intimidated or unable to express their opinion and that’s what led us to the decision,” said University of Illinois President Robert Easter.

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He was dropped from his job at the University of Illinois for expressing his politically incorrect, but truthful opinion.

A sampling of the tweets appears to show a strong bias against Israel:

“Zionists: transforming ‘anti-Semitism’ from something horrible into something honorable since 1948,” read one.

And there was this one from June 20, after three Israeli teenagers went missing: “You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not:  I wish all the [expletive] West Bank settlers would go missing.”

The university withdrew the job offer last month when it learned about the posts — saying they crossed the line, drew too close to hate speech, and would likely make some students feel unsafe, uncomfortable and intimidated in his class.

Salaita isn’t apologizing for the tweets, such as this one from July 8:

“If you’re defending #Israel right now, you’re an awful human being.”

And while the Palestinian-American professor says he regrets if anyone was offended by his posts, he insisted that the language he uses on Twitter isn’t reflective of how he handles his classroom, and that he has never browbeaten or criticized a student who disagrees with him.

“The way that I have always tweeted sort of has to do with the way things are happening in the moment politically and discursively,” Salaita said.

The university’s decision has brought on a flood of criticism from academics across the country who say the school violated the professor’s rights of free-speech and academic liberty.

“The [university] administration’s actions threaten the principles of free speech, academic freedom, and critical thought that should be the foundation of any university,” Salaita said at a press conference last week.