San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests to Win Back Job: Sang Hea Kil is one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in connection with the protests. (KQED, 2026-06-23)
>> Kil, the former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, is one of the first tenured professors fired from a public U.S. university over on-campus demonstrations in connection with the recent protests.
>> “I feel what happened to me was to silence any pro-Palestinian solidarity in academia and also in this nation,” Kil told KQED on Monday. “I fought as hard as I possibly can with the support and solidarity of my colleagues and social justice groups. We won, and it’s a victory for academic freedom on campus and pro-Palestine speech.”…
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