Here we list cases where universities (etc) punish or censor staff or students account of the political views expressed. There are many of them, especially cases in Australia, mentioned in this article.
Frequently such people are accused of antisemitism, so it is useful to point to this letter from the Jewish Council of Australia.
And here is an academic article on the subject, Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities, by Jumana Bayeha and Nick Riemer
She is a "well-known pro-Palestinian academic at Sydney’s Macquarie University", much criticised for things she has said, which I haven't found quoted in full. Some have urged that she be sacked from her academic position. The World Socialist Web Site article mentioned above is largely about this cases as are the following ones, here, here, and here.
She has written this article, which describes an open letter she and others organised, Artists & Academics Against Annexation, also available here.
She has written other articles for Al Jazeera.
David Miller was an academic at the University of Bristol, who was dismissed by the University, despite a history described here. An Employment Tribunal found he had been unfairly dismissed, see the judgment. The case was discussed by solicitors here.
It seems he would express himself strongly, eg
Zionism is and always has been a racist, violent, imperialist ideology premised on ethnic cleansing (para 97(iii))(this in an email to a student who had referred to him as an “utterly vile antisemite” (para 93)).
But the judgment several times makes clear that the University did not accuse him of antisemitism:
However he was criticised for what he said and wrote about students and University student societies (eg paras 284 to 291, 471)
Here is a website supporting him, and here is the transcript of a long talk by him, The Zionist movement and why it matters
David has written a lot of articles on Al Mayadeen, and on his own substack.
He is the founder of the UK’s lobbying watchdog Spinwatch.
David was one of several academic authors of a book, Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief. But a book launch event was cancelled by Waterstones. See also Bad news for Jeremy Corbyn about the book, and Waterstones cancels launch for book on Labour and anti-Semitism or Waterstones shuts down book launch exposing the antisemitism witch hunt against the left about the launch event cancellation.
A long-time law professor at Columbia University in New York, "[she came] to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that [she could] no longer teach or conduct research." This followed proceedings against her for a statement made in an interview on Democracy Now! on January 25, 2024. See her statement on the case and several more interviews on Democracy Now! She was also interviewed by Chris Hedges.
An interesting tidbit in this interview is
... attorney Kathleen Peratis, who is representing Franke along with the Center for Constitutional Rights after she quit her former law firm, Outten & Golden, because it dropped Franke as a client, saying she was too controversial. “What happened at Outten & Golden is the kind of thing that’s happening all over,” says Peratis.
Shahd Abusalama was suspended from her position at Sheffield Hallam University, apparently on account of allegations of antisemitism, although, apparently, these were not communicated specifically to her. It seems that quite soon the suspension was lifted and the investigation of her was dropped.
The second article linked above says
the university alleged that Abusalama had broken the university’s rules, specifically the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition (sic) of antisemitismPresumably the University had not actually read the "definition", see my comments on it here.
A blog called Engage alleges SHU UCU passed a second antisemitic motion, this time in support of Shahd Absulama. Conveniently, the text of the motion is included in the article, as are some tweets by Abusalama, prsumably those to which objection was taken. You can judge whether they are antisemitic.
There has subsequently been further legal interaction between Dr Abusalama and the University.
She was interviewed by 5pillars, shown on Youtube. Dr Abusalama writes a blog called Palestine from My Eyes, and for Declassified UK, and for Electronic Intifada.
As recounted in Tantura, Anniversary of a buried War Crime
When an Israeli graduate student named Theodore “Teddy” Katz finally exposed the truth [about the Tantura massacre] in 2000 through painstaking oral history research, he faced a vicious backlash: lawsuits, public vilification, and the suppression of his work. The Tantura affair became emblematic of how Israeli academia and society silenced inconvenient histories of the Nakba.But the recordings he made of conversations with witnesses (both victims and perpetrators) survived, and became the basis of a documentary film “Tantura” in 2022 by Israeli filmmaker Alon Schwarz. The documentary is described at length by Haaretz: There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess And here is a very personal account by the daughter of a man involved in the campaign against Katz: On the Massacre in Tantura
At Haifa, Dr. Ilan Pappé supported Katz, but
found himself increasingly isolated and vilified by peers. Within a few years, Pappé too would be driven out: in 2007, amid death threats and official censure for his vocal criticism of Israel’s Nakba denial, he resigned and left Israel to teach in the UK.Here is an article written by Pappé about it: The Tantura case in Israel: The Katz research and trial. Dr Pappé has also written for Palestine Chronicle and Electronic Intifada
Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of life sciences academic journal eLife, has been removed from his post. The following are quoted from the Newsweek article.
On October 13, satirical news site The Onion published a piece with the headline: "Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas."
Eisen, who is Jewish and has Israeli family members, responded to the piece posting on X, formerly Twitter: "The Onion speaks with more courage, insight and moral clarity than the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there were a TheOnion university.
"Every sane person on Earth is horrified and traumatized by what Hamas did and wants it to never happen again," he added. "But I am also horrified by the collective punishment already being meted out on Gazans, and the worse that is about to come."
Then, on Tuesday, eLife's board of directors released a statement in which it said it had decided to replace Eisen as editor.
While eLife's board of directors did not specifically mention the tweet, Eisen wrote the previous day that he had been informed he was being replaced for, as he put it, "retweeting a TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians."
A Doctor Said Israel’s War Is Fueling Health Crises in Gaza. UCSF [University of California, San Francisco] Fired Her. She writes about this on her substack, including in Silencing the Messenger and UCSF Fired Me for My Protected Speech, and on Mondoweiss, UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent
Here is an article is about several cases at UCSF medical