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July 26, 2017

Steven Salaita Can’t Get an Academic Job. He Thinks It’s Because He’s an Anti-Zionist. It’s Because He’s an Anti-Semite.

He’s not being hounded for his views on Israel.

In 2014, a professor of English named Steven Salaita had a job offer rescinded after a series of anti-Semitic tweets attracted public attention. (They included: “At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anybody be surprised?” and “Zionists: transforming ‘anti-Semitism’ from something horrible into something honorable since 1948.”) Since then, Salaita has held a series of temporary posts, but apparently no one will offer him a tenured or tenure-track appointment, and so he has decided to leave academia.

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