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• Are academic boycotts always wrong? UCU vs Israel's universities

  Published: July 6, 2007, 9:16 pm

  Tags: Queen S University, Censorship, Karen Hitchcock, Academic Boycott, Israel, Academic Freedom, Ucu

  sustained by assuming that academic freedom is of infinite (social?) value. I have trouble seeing how this could be justified/demonstrated.Queen's University's Principal might well be right in suggesting that an academic boycott of academic institutions in Israel is the wrong thing to do. The trouble is that more needs to be said by way of

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• Right-Wing P.C.

  Published: September 17, 2007, 3:57 am

  Tags: Twelfth Rate Wingnut Law School Now Hiring, Academic Freedom

  Jack Balkin on Michael Drake's feeble defense of his decision to fire Erwin Chemerinsky for transparently political reasons:Nothing Drake says sheds much light on why it would be reasonable for him to act as he did. Indeed, he only creates greater suspicion that the reasons for the firing were illegal, unethical, and dishonest. He is trying to

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• Occidental College Settles Lawsuit With 'Shock Jock' Student - Chronicle.com

  Published: October 22, 2007, 10:38 am

  Tags: California, Academic Censorship, Academic Freedom, Occidental College

  After he graduated, Mr. read more

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• FIRE - Victory at Long Last: Occidental College Settles Free Speech Lawsuit with Wronged Student

  Published: October 22, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Academic Censorship, Academic Freedom

  Following a three-year dispute and a multi-million-dollar lawsuit, Occidental College and former student shock jock Jason Antebi have settled a lawsuit in which Antebi sued the school for maliciously read more

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• The late Jerry Falwell on evolution

  Published: May 15, 2007, 8:43 pm

  Tags: Scientific Method M Scott Peck, Jerry Falwell, Academic Freedom

  me, that is a violation of academic freedom." The problem with this "academic freedom" argument is a basic misunderstanding of science. In just about any other field - history, sociology, cultural studies, literature studies - you could discuss any and every fringe idea or ideas that, once fringe, have become common belief. However, in science,

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• Canadian Jewish publication on tenure denial

  Published: March 10, 2008, 11:34 am

  Tags: Norman Finkelstein, Canada, United States, Palestine, Depaul University, Academic Freedom, Israel

  publication on tenure denial Academic Freedom for Some But Not for All January/February 2008 Canadian Jewish Outlook (Vancouver, BC) By Judy Haiven September 2007 was bright and beautiful. Classes were just beginning for the university year. In the late summer sunshine, my institution looked idyllic a kind and protected place for

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• "US professors face hostile reception in Jerusalem,"

  Published: June 11, 2008, 9:38 am

  Tags: United States, Jerusalem, Academic Freedom, Israel

  Article of interest. Ed Corrigan US professors face hostile reception in Jerusalem Rachel Shabi in Tel Aviv The American professors whose bestselling book, The Israel Lobby, provoked a media storm are bracing themselves for a hostile reception when... Click on the headlines to read the full

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• 'Zionism, a very clear ideology of exclusion, racism and expulsion' - exiled Israeli academic

  Published: June 19, 2008, 9:46 pm

  Tags: Zionism, Zionist, Boycotts, Academic Freedom, Israel

  Support for an academic boycott of Israeli universities exposed Ilan Pappe to death threats last year, forced him to resign as senior lecturer of political science at the University of Haifa, and leave the country. His argument that the creation of Israel in 1948... Click on the headlines to read the full story!

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