The professor has apparently been removed. Perhaps it was an ill-advised appointment in the first place, but to remove him like this is just shameful!
Agree or disagree, the pro-Palestinian position is a viable academic perspective; the conflict is to fresh and present to expect any accounts to be unbiased, and historical and political truth is usually best arrived at through vigorous – even extreme – academic debate. I would be equally chagrined had the college dismissed a pro-Israel professor at the urgings of a Palestinian politician. This does little to commend the academic credentials of Brooklyn College, and does much to degrade it as an institution of higher learning.
“speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest . . . policies”
– Chief Justice Vinson, Dennis v. U.S.
“If there be a time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Only emergency can justify suppression.”
– Justice Brandeis, Whitney v. California