Why Salaita settlement is a victory for Palestine solidarity movement
The University of Illinois’ decision to fire Steven Salaita generated unprecedented mobilizations. (Jeffrey Putney/Flickr)
Omar Shakir-24 November 2015
When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dismissed my client, Professor Steven Salaita, from a tenured faculty position in August 2014 over tweets critical of Israel’s assault on Gaza, it sent reverberations throughout the movement for Palestinian rights in the US.
