In major hit to tenure, Muhlenberg fires pro-Palestinian professor
For the first time since the October 7 terror attacks in Israel and subsequent war in Gaza, a tenured faculty member in the United States has been fired for pro-Palestinian advocacy. The firing of tenured anthropology professor Maura Finkelstein by Muhlenberg College, a private, Lutheran school in Allentown, Pennsylvania, marks the third serious attack on tenured faculty this week.
Finkelstein, unenviably, joins both Penn Law professor Amy Wax, who was dealt a major sanction for her in-class and extramural speech, and Joe Gow, fired today from his tenured faculty role at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse for making vegan-themed pornography with his wife in his spare time.
