Silenced in America
Henry Porter writes for The Observer today about challenges to free speech regarding Israel and Palestine in the US.
Though Porter paints the situation with not too fine a brush, the firing of professor Douglas Giles from Roosevelt University, Chicago for allowing discussion of Zionism in a world religions class appears to be quite outrageous - particularly when you read Giles' own version of events. According to this, his department chair (Susan Weininger) had expressed concern that he had allowed a Muslim student to speak in a class on Judaism, and had called Palestinians 'animals' and 'not civilised'.
Porter also refers to the essay The Israel Lobby, which I posted on in April.
Though Porter paints the situation with not too fine a brush, the firing of professor Douglas Giles from Roosevelt University, Chicago for allowing discussion of Zionism in a world religions class appears to be quite outrageous - particularly when you read Giles' own version of events. According to this, his department chair (Susan Weininger) had expressed concern that he had allowed a Muslim student to speak in a class on Judaism, and had called Palestinians 'animals' and 'not civilised'.
Porter also refers to the essay The Israel Lobby, which I posted on in April.
Labels: justice, Palestine and Israel, politics, US
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