Jewish Professor Fired for Anti-Zionist posts. Gosh. Professor Finkelstein Must Be Antisemitic

Jewish Professor Fired for Anti-Zionist posts. Gosh. Professor Finkelstein Must Be Antisemitic 11-17-2024
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I Wonder if Trump Wants to Give Her the Death Penalty?
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WAKE UP AMERICA - THE ZIONIST OCCUPIED GOVERNMENT IS LEADING US INTO AN ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE
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Jewish professor fired for anti-Zionist posts, with Maura Finkelstein | EI Podcast
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16,340 views Nov. 17, 2024
Professor Maura Finkelstein - The Electronic Intifada
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Across the US, students and faculty are continuing to resist repressive measures by university administrations intended to stifle or even criminalize speech in support of Palestinian rights, as the genocide in Gaza continues.
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Along with elite US institutions calling riot cops on their own students who have been holding sit-in protests, or attempting to prevent students from holding protests altogether, some universities have tried to categorize the political ideology of Zionism as a protected identity class in order to define anti-Zionist speech as racist hate speech.
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“As long as I’ve been a teacher, I’ve been teaching about Palestine – it’s always been either central or integrated into the work that I do,” Maura Finkelstein told The Electronic Intifada Podcast. Finkelstein, a scholar of anthropology and a writer, taught at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania for nine years.
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She had been teaching a course on the anthropology of Palestine, a class that she says had been approved by the college. But even though she was tenured, she was fired in May 2024 over her social media posts in support of Palestinian rights and against the political ideology of Zionism – a move that has been seen as a warning to other anti-genocide professors.
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The firing followed months of targeted harassment by Israel lobby groups and individuals who pressured the university to fire Finkelstein, accusing her of “Jew hatred” over her anti-Zionist principles. Finkelstein is Jewish.
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