Several professors at universities around the US are facing disciplinary actions in regard to their support for the pro-Palestine movement and their students holding protests on college campuses.
At Columbia University, Katherine Franke, law professor and the director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, is currently under investigation at the school over an interview she gave early this year. Last week, she announced she had filed a complaint against a law firm she retained after it dropped her as a client.
Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor of anthropology at Muhlenberg College, a private liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was fired in May over a social media repost on Instagram that a student complained about. She has appealed her termination.
Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, is being investigated by the university for her pro-Palestine activism at the same timethe institution touts her MacArthur genius grant.