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)
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.