Chicago, IL —(ENEWSPF)—January 29, 2015. A professor who was fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign because of his tweets criticizing the Israeli government’s bombing of Gaza last year has filed a civil rights suit against the University and its top officials, saying that his firing violated his First Amendment right to free speech and other constitutional rights, and basic principles of academic freedom.
Dr. Steven Salaita, a Palestinian-American professor…
