Sunday, December 2, 2012

Jewish Professor Takes Large Settlement From Catholic Students







 
 
DePaul's Tuitions And Alumni Pay Off Professor
The long-running battle between  Norman Finkelstein and DePaul University administrators ended Wednesday as the two sides agreed on a private settlement.

But the underlying struggle between supporters of Israel and champions of the Palestinians continues, not just at the North Side campus but across the academic world.

 

Reluctantly Takes The Money
Finkelstein's case attracted far greater public attention than tenure struggles usually do, with supporters across the nation demanding the Catholic university grant him tenure and detractors just as vehemently insisting he be fired. Wednesday's settlement did little to calm those waters.


 
Legal Giant 'Outraged'
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a strong supporter of Israel, has been engaged in a long and bitter public debate with Finkelstein. Dershowitz expressed outrage  that the university said, "Professor Finkelstein is a prolific scholar and an outstanding teacher."

"The university has traded truth for peace," howled Dershowitz. "The statement that [Finkelstein] is a scholar is simply false. He's a propagandist."

 

Dean Abbie
Earlier this year, DePaul Dean Chuck Suchar, Romanian Jewish family, had rejected tenure for Finkelstein, saying the political scientist, known for his red-hot rhetoric, hadn't been true to the school's "Vincentian values," including respect for the views of others.



 
Noam Chomsky Sees Finklestein As  A Son

Finkelstein's cause, meanwhile, has found support among academic powerhouses such as the late Raul Hilberg, and Noam Chomsky, linguist and social critic.
 

Raul Hilberg
He was the dean of holocaust studies. The holocaust is where 4,000,000 Jews were gassed in a two car garage at Auschwitz, with bug spray. The reason there no bodies were found is they were cremated, the remains put in bone crushers, and the ashes thrown in the wind.
Hilberg's masterpiece, The Destruction the European Jews, put the death toll at 5.1 million.
 

Sad Day
But Finkelstein himself was soft-spoken in what had been billed as his final class session. His remarks were more reminiscent of the famed school-days novel "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" than of soap-box rabble-rousing. He had praise for DePaul University and quoted lyrics of Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson, balladeers of the liberal left.

His voice cracked with emotion when he thanked his Jewish students for their support through some dark periods.
   

 

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