Talk:Steven Salaita hiring controversy

Aren't direct quotes excepted from the general prohibition? Im The IP (talk) 16:31, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


 * The Daily Mail can't be trusted for quotes - they mangle quotes to sound better all the time, and have literally made up entire interviews before. There are lots of reasons the DM got deprecated, and that's one of them. If an interview can be found anywhere else, we could use that, but not the DM - David Gerard (talk) 17:05, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I got confused with another article! No, we basically shouldn't use the Daily Caller for anything or trust it for anything - one of the reasons it was deprecated was fabrication - David Gerard (talk) 17:34, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Ok. I sourced the quote from Daily Caller to another site. Im The IP  (talk) 19:06, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Best way to describe Salaita's tweets
Sorry for being a jerk and reverting. I don't know how the 1RR works exactly so to be on the safe side I reverted everything you added. Yes, some claimed that the tweets were anti-Semitic but I don't think we can conclude that it was allegations of anti-Semitism that cost him the job. But, indeed, the lead is problematic; it shouldn't say "because he had posted a series of tweets ..." the right word is "after." Wrt, the characterization of his tweets, this is how they have been described in books and journals:


 * "about tweets Salaita posted protesting the mass destruction and civilian deaths caused by Israeli military operations launched against Gaza" and "heated criticism of Israel"
 * "Salaita had tweeted about babies who had been killed in Palestine during the seven-week Israel-Gaza conflagration in July and August and had asserted that Israel was indiscriminately killing noncombatants and destroying cities."
 * "Our analysis focuses on four of Salaita’s tweets singled out as among the most incendiary in the days following the controversy"
 * "The campaign of destruction began when several constituencies objected to Salaita's tweetes that vehemently protested Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza"

As I remember it, neither the university nor Kennedy claimed the tweets were anti-Semitic. Their complaint was about incivility. Feel free to review the rest of the article too; it's mostly my work and I've tried to be neutral and cover all the bases, but I may very well have missed a lot of stuff. Im The IP (talk) 15:25, 12 October 2020 (UTC)