Tenured Jewish Professor Says She’s Been Fired for Pro-Palestinian Speech

In January of this year, Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College, temporarily reposted on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet. Months later, a faculty and staff committee recommended firing her over that post, she said.  A week after that post, the college suspended Finkelstein from campus and teaching amid alleged student complaints about an Oct. 12 class discussion and the Instagram repost, according to Anita Levy, a senior program officer in the American Association of University Professors’ Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance, who’s advocating for Finkelstein.