Philadelphia – Marc Lamont Hill, a political commentator who was fired by CNN after a video surfaced of him calling for “a free Palestine from the river to the sea” will not lose his teaching position, Temple University said.
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The Philadelphia school’s board of trustees stated their “disappointment, displeasure, and disagreement with Professor Hill’s comments” made late last month during an event at the United Nations for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Hill, a professor of media studies and urban education, as well as host of the syndicated television show “Our World with Black Enterprise,” later apologized for using a phrase associated with Palestinian extremists.
A Temple statement Tuesday saying Hill would stay on at the university cited the Constitution.
“In giving this speech outside of his role as a teacher and researcher at Temple, Professor Hill was not speaking on behalf of or representing the University,” the statement said. “We recognize that Professor Hill’s comments are his own, that his speech as a private individual is entitled to the same Constitutional protection of any other citizen, and that he has through subsequent statements expressly rejected anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic violence.”
Why is it that anti Semitic comments are always protected under “free speech” yet racist anti black anti gay anti Muslim result in immediate firings
Let him keep his miserable job at Temple University; however, he must never be allowed to appear again on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, etc. It is bad enough that Al Sharpton is a regular on MSNBC.
Guess my call complaining about a guy calling for killing all Jews didn’t matter
Of course he can keep his job he’s a liberal antisemite, who do you think runs the universities?
it never ceases to amaze me how so called educated people in one field can be so stupid and ignorant in another field. Well most MD’s know little about plumbing, but at least they don’t tell us how to run our plumbing lines, but Professors seems to be knowledgeable in one area, and feel that they can tell us what is correct in Israel/Palestine…..