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Steven Salaita (born September 15, 1975) is an American scholar, author and public speaker. He became the center of a controversy when the University of Illinois did not hire him as a professor of American Indian Studies [2] [3] [4] following objections to a series of tweets critical of Israel's bombardment of Gaza in 2014. [5] .
Steve Salaita is a Palestinian American writer and former professor who lost his job for criticizing Israel. His blog features essays, excerpts, and opinions on Palestine, Zionism, literature, academia, and politics.
The Steven Salaita hiring controversy was a 2010s controversy about an American professor who was un-hired by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign following a campaign by pro-Israel students, faculty and donors who contended that his tweets protesting Israel's bombardment of Gaza were antisemitic.
Mar 5, 2024 · In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A year later, he landed a job in Lebanon, but that, too, ended badly.
Jan 30, 2015 · On January 29, 2015, Steven Salaita, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the law firm Loevy & Loevy, filed a civil rights suit against the University of Illinois alleging that the decision to terminate him violated his First Amendment right to free speech and other constitutional rights, and basic principles of academic freedom.
Nov 13, 2015 · The fired professor reflects on his case against UIUC and the challenges of academic freedom and Palestinian human rights. He argues that Zionism is a form of colonialism that suppresses dissent and supports neoliberalism in universities.
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Oct 5, 2015 · Steven G. Salaita. In August 2014, I was fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The firing made me a free-speech darling — or the world’s most...
