University votes not to reinstate prof over series of anti-Israel tweets
http://twitter.com/#!/LeonLittman/status/510110476898824192 University of Illinois trustees voted 8-1 Thursday not to reinstate Steven Salaita, who had accepted a tenured professorship last fall to teach in the school’s American Indian Studies program. That offer was revoked this August after Salaita posted several tweets denouncing Israel’s military strikes in Gaza. Dozens of students staged a walkout earlier this week in support of Salaita and shouted…
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