Marc Lamont Hill Is Not Alone
Professor Marc Lamont Hill’s job was threatened because he spoke up on behalf of Palestinian rights. He’s just the latest victim in a nationwide wave of censorship and repression aimed at the Palestine solidarity movement — but the movement is fighting back.
Moderator Marc Lamont Hill attends BET Presents “An Evening With ‘The Quad'” at the Paley Center on December 7, 2016 in New York City. Bennett Raglin / Getty
When Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill, known for his forceful and principled advocacy for racial justice, as well as a number of other social justice issues, spoke at the United Nations on November 28 in favor of equal rights for all in Palestine/Israel, he apparently went one cause too far.
First, he was fired as a commentator by CNN. Now, members of Temple University’s board of trustees are up in arms. They don’t approve of something a Temple faculty member said, off campus, on his own time.
Sounds all too familiar.
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