On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Robert Naiman < [email protected]> wrote:
> The widespread belief around here is that Salaita's insistence that he was > looking to be reinstated was a negotiating tactic. > I didn't get that impression. Although I had a hard time imagining how he could be reinstated, he did repatedly insist that that was his goal. In any case, his career as an academic - at least in the US - is likely finished. He won't starve, the settlement makes sure of that, but the forces that wanted to silence him ultimately got what they wanted. > 1. The case brought down Chancellor Wise, when it was exposed that she had > deliberately used private email to conduct University business in the case > in order to avoid scrutiny. The interim chancellor appointed in her stead > has been a champion of resolving the dispute with Salaita. > Yes, but Wise's ouster is a small consolation considering that she is still on the faculty, despite ebing disgraced, but Salaita is not. > 2. The case showed the power of concerned academics in other institutions > to exert real pressure on the University in a way that affected the > University's calculus. The AAUP censure is perceived as a real thing here; > one of the arguments given here for settling the case with Salaita is that > this is a key step towards lifting the AAUP sanction. Also, the boycott was > perceived as a real thing here, damaging the University's reputation, > making it harder to recruit, making it easier for people to get hired away > by other institutions. > I agree that the big silver lining in this whole thing is the show of solidarity even from academics who disagreed with Salaita's BDS activities. The AAUP censure is certainly a nightmare for prestige-obsessed administrators. > 3. The University has been going out of its way on other fronts to prove > that it is not anti-Palestinian. Salaita may not be on the UIUC faculty, > but Sayed Kashua is. "It's an ill wind that blows no man good." :) > I hadn't heard about this one. Thanks for sharing. -raghu. > > An Exile in the Corn Belt > Israel’s funniest Palestinian writer decamps to the Midwest. > BY RUTH MARGALIT > http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/an-exile-in-the-corn-belt > > > > > > > > > > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > (202) 448-2898 x1 > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:32 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Sadly Salaita's reinstatement still seems highly unlikely, and perhaps >>> even undesirable considering hostility and resentment he is likely to face >>> there. But this may clear the way for some kind of resolution. >>> >> >> >> As I had commented earlier, despite his public pronouncements, it seemed >> unlikely to me that Salaita would ever get his job back. And that's what >> has happened. >> >> The size of the settlement may offer Salaita some vindication, but it is >> hard to see this as a victory: >> >> https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/steven-salaita-wont-get-job-back-deal-univ-illinois >> -----------------------------snip >> >> Steven Salaita <https://electronicintifada.net/tags/steven-salaita> will >> not be reinstated under the terms of an out of court settlement with the >> University >> of Illinois <https://electronicintifada.net/tags/university-illinois>. >> >> The deal will pay Salaita $875,000 – about ten times the annual salary he >> would have received as a tenured professor in the American Indian Studies >> program at the university’s flagship Urbana-Champaign >> <https://electronicintifada.net/tags/university-illinois-urbana-champaign> >> campus. >> >> “This settlement is a vindication for me, but more importantly, it is a >> victory for academic freedom and the First Amendment,” Salaita said in a >> release >> <https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/settlement-reached-case-professor-fired-uncivil-tweets> >> from his legal counsel, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the law >> firm Loevy & Loevy. >> >> The settlement brings an end to Salaita’s breach of contract lawsuit >> against university trustees and administrators over his August 2014 firing >> because of his tweets excoriating Israel’s attack on Gaza. >> >> Salaita had sought reinstatement as well as financial damages. >> >> The terms of the deal will come as a surprise to some supporters. His >> lawyers had said all along that Salaita was willing to settle, but that his >> primary goal would be to get his job back. >> The university has been adamant, however, that it would not allow him >> into the classroom. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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