La censure peut coûter très cher aux Etats-Unis, même quand elle s’en prend aux défenseurs de la cause palestinienne. Steve Salaita vient d’obliger l’université de l’Illinois à lui payer 875.000 dollars de dommages et intérêts pour discrimination.
Les tribunaux américains, saisis par le Professeur Steven Salaita, chercheur américain d’origine palestinienne, ont contraint l’Université de l’Illinois à lui verser la somme de 875.000 dollars, soit l’équivalent de 10 ans de salaire, pour avoir renoncé à l’embaucher, en raison de ses critiques d’Israël sur les réseaux sociaux.
Les juges ont estimé que les droits politiques de cet universitaire, de même que sa liberté d’expression avaient été bafoués, au regard du premier amendement de la constitution étatsunienne.
Il avait été sélectionné, après un entretien d’embauche, pour enseigner au sein de l’Université, mais celle-ci a changé d’avis, face aux pressions du lobby israélien qui a fait valoir qu’il avait fait circuler sur twitter des messages d’ indignation concernant les massacres israéliens sur la bande de Gaza à l’été 2014.
Steven Salaita a reçu un énorme soutien de la part de la communauté académique, et 80 universitaires viennent de publier un texte déclarant que ce dédommagement, ne s’accompagnant pas d’une embauche, ils maintiennent leur appel à boycotter cette université, « qui a privé les étudiants et les enseignants d’un chercheur dynamique » et qui a « violé les droits fondamentaux de la libre expression. »
Katherine Franke, Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia University
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology
Wesleyan University
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University
Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English, University of Hawai’i
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University
Lisa Duggan, Professor, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis,
New York University
Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Columbia University
James Schamus, Professor of Professional Practice, School of the Arts, Columbia University
Bill V. Mullen, Professor of American Studies
Purdue University
Bruce Robbins
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Macarena Gomez-Barris
Associate Professor, American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California
Robert Alexander Innes
Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies
University of Saskatchewan
Lauren Berlant
George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English
University of Chicago
Joseph Massad
Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Columbia University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
University Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University
Noura Erakat
George Mason University
Sunaina Maira
Professor, Asian American Studies
University of California, Davis
Corey Robin
Professor of Political Science
Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Colin Dayan
Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Law
Vanderbilt University
Margaret Russell
Professor of Law
Santa Clara Law
David Prochaska
Department of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lisa Rofel
Director, Center for Emerging Worlds
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Helga Tawil-Souri
Associate Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication
New York University
Marianne Hirsch
William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality
Columbia University
Valerie Forman
Associate Professor, Gallatin School
New York University
Neferti Tadiar
Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Barnard College
Inderpal Grewal
Professor, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
Professor, South Asian Studies
Professor, Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies
Affiliate Faculty in American Studies.
Yale University
Brinkley Messick
Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Columbia University
Kandice Chuh
Professor of English and American Studies
Acting Coordinator, American Studies Certificate Program
CUNY/The Graduate Center
Roderick A. Ferguson
Professor, Department of African American Studies and the Program in Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Illinois, Chicago
Valerie Forman
Associate Professor
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
New York University
Natalie Zemon Davis
University of Toronto
Dr. Rima Najjar Merriman
Al-Quds University, Palestine
Stephen Duncombe
Professor of Media and Culture
Gallatin School of Individualized Study &
Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School
New York University
Chandler Davis
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
University of Toronto
Jodi Melamed
Associate Professor
Marquette University
Frederick Neuhouser
Professor of Philosophy
Barnard College
Bruce Levine
J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Laura Briggs
Chair and Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ann Cvetkovich
Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English
Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Alyosha Goldstein
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
American Studies Department
University of New Mexico
David Klein
Professor of Mathematics
California State University, Northridge
Taylor Carman
Dept of Philosophy
Barnard College
Columbia University
Professor E Frances White
Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, FAS
New York University
Kevin Bruyneel
Professor of Politics
Babson College
Miranda Joseph, Professor
Department of Gender & Women’s Studies
University of Arizona
Dr Patrick Wolfe
Honorary Research Associate
History Program
La Trobe University
Australia
Christine B. Harrington
Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics
Affiliated Faculty, NYU Law School
New York University
David Roediger
Foundation Professor of American Studies
University of Kansas
Magid Shihade
Birzeit University
Leti Volpp
Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law
Berkeley Law
Dean Saranillio
Assistant Professor
New York University
Gayatri Gopinath
Associate Professor, Dept of Social and Cultural Analysis
New York University
Barbara Ransby
Distinguished Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sandra K. Soto
University of Arizona
Department of Gender & Women’s Studies
Lara Deeb
Professor of Anthropology
Scripps College
C. Heike Schotten
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Massachusetts Boston
John Maynard
Professor of English
New York University
Kiara M. Vigil
Assistant Professor
American Studies
Amherst College
Cynthia Grant Bowman
Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
Chandan Reddy
Associate Professor
English and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
University of Washington
Jeff Goodwin
Professor of Sociology
New York University
Juliana Hu Pegues
Assistant Professor
Smith College
Carolyn Dinshaw
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English
New York University
Sarah T. Roberts
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Western University
Rebecca Comay
Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Aziz Rana
Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
Moon-Ho Jung
Department of History
University of Washington
Vasuki Nesiah
Associate Professor of Practice
The Gallatin School, New York University
Nadine Suleiman Naber
Associate Professor
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Asian American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Tithi Bhattacharya
Associate Professor, History
Purdue University
Joseph R. Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Salah D Hassan
English
Michigan State University
Andrea Gadberry
Assistant Professor
Gallatin School of Individualized Study;
Department of Comparative Literature,
College of Arts & Science
New York University
Malini Johar Schueller
Professor
Department of English
University of Florida
Sinclair Thomson
Associate Professor of History
New York University
Rebecca Schreiber
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of American Studies
University of New Mexico
Benjamin Balthaser
Assistant Professor of English
Indiana University, South Bend
Hannah Gurman
Clinical Associate Professor
Gallatin School
New York University
Alex Dubilet
Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies
Vanderbilt University
Marita Sturken
Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Steinhardt School
New York University
Susan G Davis
Professor Emerita Communication Dept, and Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dawn Peterson
Assistant Professor of History
Emory University
Hartry Field
University Professor and Silver Professor of philosophy
New York University
Jules Lobel
Bessie McKee Walthour Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh Law School
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