Criticism mounts as university in US fires Jewish professor

Criticism is mounting over the firing of a Jewish professor who accused his Oregon university’s leadership of making anti-Semitic comments, with the local branch of the Anti-Defamation League joining calls for the president of the school to resign, writes Ben Sales for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Students as well as fellow academics are also protesting against the decision by Linfield University, a Baptist-affiliated school with some 2,000 students, to fire Daniel Pollack-Pelzner. According to The Oregonian, the university has hosed down sidewalk-chalk messages supporting Pelzner, threatening the students who wrote them with fines, and has torn down flyers criticising his termination.

Pollack-Pelzner, an English literature professor who had tenure, was fired after he and others publicly accused Linfield University President Miles K Davis of making multiple anti-Semitic comments, including about Jewish noses as well as the Holocaust. Pollack-Pelzner said he believed the anti-Semitism was partly in response to his asking the school to do more to address allegations of sexual assault.
Full report on The Times of Israel site