The Norman Finkelstein-DePaul controversey is covered in the latest Jewish United Fund News.JUF reports that DePaul's president, Father Dennis Holtschneider, in a written statement said, "In fact, academic freedom is alive and well at DePaul."If only that were true. Thomas Klocek, as regular readers of the blog know, was a longtime adjunct professor at the Chicago Catholic university who was fired after speaking up for Israel in front of some Muslim students there.
For more on Klocek, click on the link:
Sept 15: Second anniversary of the beginning of the Thomas Klocek affair
If academic freedom is "alive and well" at DePaul, Father Holtschneider can prove it by rehiring Klocek. DePaul's fall quarter begins in two months.
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