[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Hard to believe, but this is the first account from a Chicago daily newspaper about the story of the pro-Israel professor, make that former professor, at Chicago's DePaul University.

[okie01]

The conflict, as described, is pretty much a "he said-she said" situation.

Hardly seems worth firing anybody (even an adjunct)...or dealing with the lawsuit to follow.

Of course, if the sides had been reversed, if Klocek had been arguing for the Palestinians and against a Jew or a Christian, he probably wouldn't have aroused the administration's ire.

On campus, after all, 'Freedom of speech' obtains only to the 'most diverse'...

[Tzimisce]

More acceptance, open mindedness and tolerance at our nation's universities. I'm so happy to be soaked every April 15th when I read stories like this.

[snarks_when_bored]

The complaining students wanted to spread their palestinian hate literature without opposition, Klocek opposed them, they shouted, "We're offended!", DePaul University bowed down to them like an obedient dhimmi, and Klocek is on the street.

Fortunately, Israel won't go quite so gently into the night being prepared for her by the palestinians.

[snarks_when_bored]

And as for this:

"I'm not the ideal poster boy," Klocek said. "But freedom of speech is a cause worth fighting for."

DePaul's president agrees.

"I get accused of being against free speech," Holtschneider said. "But freedom of speech for students requires they have a professor who treats them with respect."

Klocek did nothing to infringe the right of the students to spread their hate, hence he did not infringe their right of free speech. But he is not obliged to treat either the hate or the hate-spreaders with respect. His thumb-under-chin gesture of disdain is a time-honored expressive modality of free speech. That DePaul University's president Holtschneider fails to understand this is disturbing, but not surprising.