Academic Inquiry Banned at DePaul University

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and the ADL have been able to pressure De Paul University to deny tenure to author of The Holocaust Industry and fellow Jew Norman Finkelstein. Now they have apparently prevailed in a campaign to prevent Finkelstein from attending to usual faculty duties.

Holocaust academic vows to fight axe of university class

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The controversial political scientist Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry, has protested against the axing of his last class at DePaul University in Chicago.

Mr Finkelstein, whose work led to a long-running public feud with Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, was denied tenure by the university after six years on the faculty, but permitted to work out the one year remaining on his contract.

He threatened civil disobedience and a hunger strike if he was prevented from teaching.

Last week, the university emailed students saying that Mr Finkelstein's sole political science course had been cancelled. By Monday, the books for the course had been removed from the DePaul bookstore.

Mr Finkelstein's accusations that some Jews were abusing the legacy of the Holocaust stirred deep passions, which surfaced on the EducationGuardian.co.uk blog when he was denied tenure in June.