The New York Times has a profile of fire Muhlenberg professor Maura Finkelstein that portrays or as a monitor for academic freedom.

Here is what David L. Bernstein and I wrote about her case in our forthcoming article:

Finkelstein claims that her dismissal was a response to her re-posting the following from another source:

Do not cower to Zionists. 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.

We are not in a position to judge whether Finkelstein's dismissal was solely or primarily the result of this posting. Regardless, if taken at face value, Finkelstein's claim raises the question of

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