"Tenured Jewish Professor Says She’s Been Fired for Pro-Palestinian Speech
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still receiving a salary."
Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still receiving a salary.
This psychopath wrote: “Do not cower to Zionists,” the post read, according to Finkelstein. “Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Do not make them feel comfortable. Why should those genocide-loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat-out racist. Don’t normalize Zionism. Don’t normalize Zionists taking up space.”
I consider myself a Zionist, a conservative and a supporter of free speech. They need another reason to fire her.
For background, here is how tenure began:
1. In the 19th century, university professors largely served at the pleasure of the board of trustees of the university. Sometimes, major donors could successfully remove professors or prohibit the hiring of certain individuals; In one debate of the Cornell Board of Trustees, in the 1870s, a businessman trustee argued against the prevailing system of de facto tenure, but lost the argument. Tenure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. The modern institution of academic tenure was hastened by progressive academias solidarity with E.A.Ross, progressive sociologist and social engineer and eugenicist. His thesis was that immigration would lead to race suicide.
3. He studied at Johns Hopkins under Woodrow Wilson and Richard Ely, and was influenced, as were most progressives, by German national socialists. He shared with Wilson and Ely the belief that social progress had to realize innate differences between races: Africans and South Americans were close to being savages, and Asians might be more advanced but were degenerating.
a. He served as a tutor to Teddy Roosevelt on immigration, and Roosevelt wrote the introduction to Rosss Sin and Society.
4. Ross believed that America was headed for destruction due to immigration, intermarriage, and the refusal of the state to impose eugenic reforms.
a. He wrote: Observe immigrantsin their gatherings, washed and combed, and in their Sunday best[They] are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality[C]learly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind. David M. Kennedy, Can We Still Afford To Be A Nation Of Immigrants? Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1996, p.52-68
5. Ross got a position at Stanford, but Stanfords conservative grande dame and benefactor, Jane Lathrop Stanford disliked his loud and crude denunciation of Chinese coolies, as this position was at odds with the university's founding family, the Stanfords, who had made their fortune in Western rail construction - a major employer of Chinese laborers. Ibid.
a. Numerous professors at Stanford resigned after protests of his dismissal, sparking "a national debate.
b. Progressive organizations led by Richard Elys American Economic Association, rallied to his cause.
c. The NYTimes and other newspapers editorialized on his behalf.
d. But, Ross moved on to the University of Nebraska, where he worked with Roscoe Pound, on sociological jurisprudence, and modern liberalisms living Constitution.
6. In 1915, this was followed by the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) declaration of principlesthe traditional justification for academic freedom and tenure. In 1940, the AAUP recommended that the academic tenure probationary period be seven years -- still the current norm.
