Summary
The professor whose derailed appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (as printed) is cited in Matthew Abraham’s note 4, which points out that William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection played a key role in characterising Salaita as anti-Semitic in the lead-up to that derailment (Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, PDF p.12 / printed p.88).
Details
- The note is attached to Abraham’s account of Jacobson’s blog accusing Russell Rickford of “hijacking other social justice causes” by chanting “Free Palestine” at a Cornell knee-in protest (PDF p.11-12 / printed p.87-88).
Related pages
Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, Russell Rickford