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North Carolina college bows to donor pressure over Steven Salaita talk
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/north-carolina-college-bows-donor-pressure-over-steven-salaita-talkGuilford College in North Carolina has bowed to pressure from donors to move a speech by Steven Salaita out of a campus building they funded.
This donor interference comes days after Salaita filed a lawsuit against donors and officials at the University of Illinois over his firing last summer for criticizing Israel.
Guilford College moved Salaita’s speech, scheduled for Tuesday, from the Frank Family Science Center to another campus venue after members of the Frank family, whose foundation financed the building, spoke to the Quaker college’s president.
This followed a reprise of smears in local media that Salaita’s criticisms of Israel’s massacre in Gaza last summer that left 2,200 people dead amounted to “anti-Semitism.”
This donor interference comes days after Salaita filed a lawsuit against donors and officials at the University of Illinois over his firing last summer for criticizing Israel.
Guilford College moved Salaita’s speech, scheduled for Tuesday, from the Frank Family Science Center to another campus venue after members of the Frank family, whose foundation financed the building, spoke to the Quaker college’s president.
This followed a reprise of smears in local media that Salaita’s criticisms of Israel’s massacre in Gaza last summer that left 2,200 people dead amounted to “anti-Semitism.”
