Illinois Pays Professor $875K For Losing His Job Over Anti-Israel Tweets
Blake Neff The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne agreed to pay a professor $875,000 in a settlement Thursday to compensate him for revoking a job offer when his violently anti-Israel tweets were publicized. Last year, Steven Salaita was offered a job by UIUC to be a professor in Native American studies. Salaita accepted the position and resigned his…