After losing tenure because of an unprecedented campaign of outside interference waged by Alan Dershowitz, who has no academic background in in Middle East or Israeli history or politics , DePaul University has decided to unilaterally cancel Holocaust Industry author Norman Finkelstein’s classes and shut down his office. This despite overwhelming approval of his scholarship by his peers at the school, and a remaining one-year contract.
When classes start on September 5, Finkelstein promises
“As usual I will show up for class on the first day and go to my office. I fully expect to be arrested.”Fox News reports:
Meanwhile, a faculty advocacy group sent the university a letter demanding the administration reinstate Finkelstein or hold a hearing with an elected faculty body to show cause for the suspension.
“There ought to be a hearing before any such action is taken,” said Robert Kreiser, senior program officer for the American Association of University Professors.
Administrative leave with pay isn’t justification for removing Finkelstein from teaching, Kreiser said.
“They have the burden of demonstrating that there was good reason to suspend him,” Kreiser said.
For a man who is a son of Holocaust survivors and who has been targeted by critics because he “believes that some Jews have exploited the Holocaust,” Finkelstein must have felt some tragic sense of validation while watching demonstrations in Israel earlier this month by Holocaust survivors and their familes. There are 250,000 survivors still living, but it turns out barely, in Israel. A government report said about a third live in poverty. Thousands took to the streets when the state offered to help out with insulting $20.00 monthly payments, prompting Israeli historian Tom Segev to say, “it could be that Germany treated the survivors better than the State of Israel did.”
So who got all those reparation payments? It wasn’t the Holocaust survivors of Israel.
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