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Anti-Israel Professor’s Firing Sets ‘Very Dangerous Precedent’
“Americans have a constitutional right to scream the most hateful blather from the proverbial rooftops,” writes Peter Savodnik for The Free Press. (Images via @Dr_mauraf/X and Getty, illustration by The Free Press)
I don’t agree with Maura Finkelstein. But the Muhlenberg College professor is entitled to share her views on social media, writes Peter Savodnik.
By Peter Savodnik
10.03.24 — Israel
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On October 26, 2023, less than three weeks after terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped another 250, Maura Finkelstein tweeted: “ISRAEL DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS OCCUPATION.”

The tenured anthropology professor at Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, added: “BUT PALESTINIANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND SELF-DET…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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