DePaul denies tenure to Israel critic

Shameful. It looks very much like Finkelstein's views played a large role in his denial of tenure, since university officials cited his "tone" as justification to deny Finkelstein tenure.

BTW, a committee of faculty from DePaul's political science department looked at Dershowitz's charges and found them to be without merit.

clipped from chronicle.com Norman G. Finkelstein, the controversial political scientist who has been engaged in a highly public battle for tenure at DePaul University, learned today that he had lost that fight. In a written statement released to The Chronicle, the university confirmed that Mr. Finkelstein had been denied tenure. Mr. Finkelstein’s case has excited widespread interest, in part because of the involvement of Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University. The two scholars have sparred repeatedly in public. Last fall, Mr. Dershowitz sent members of DePaul’s law and political-science faculties what he described as “a dossier of Norman Finkelstein’s most egregious academic sins, and especially his outright lies, misquotations, and distortions.”