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<H2><B>"</B><A href="#150615_0">Open letter in support of professor Terri
Ginsburg; appealing to N. Carolina Supreme Court</A></H2></DIV>
<H3 style="CLEAR: both"><A name=150615_0></A><B><A
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letter in support of professor Terri Ginsburg; appealing to N. Carolina
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alt=""
src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QmAvJH1LZOE/Tgu8DHKHvjI/AAAAAAAABJk/XjvOXyQcJbY/s1600/Terri-Ginsberg.png">Terri
Ginsberg was a visiting film studies professor at North Carolina State
University when <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://ginsbergvsncsu.wordpress.com/about/"
target=_blank>she was dismissed after sharing views critical of
Zionism</A> and the state of Israel. (You can read prior coverage of
her case in <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2010/01/13/academic-freedom-new-attack-on-columbias-rashid-khalidi-and-parc/">Muzzlewatch,</A>
the <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://electronicintifada.net/blog/nora/fight-continues-academic-freedom-us">Electronic
Intifada</A> and in <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://ginsbergvsncsu.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/nirithaaretztranslation1.pdf">Ha’aretz</A>).
She filed a grievance with the university, which denied her a hearing –
three times. So she took her case to the courts. Two lower courts have
decided against her, and she is now appealing to the Supreme Court of
North Carolina.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>
<P class=MsoNormal>In the words of an open letter co-sponsored by The
British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), the Center
for Constitutional Rights, JVP-Westchester and others:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal>At North Carolina State University, shortly after Dr.
Terri Ginsberg made supportive political comments at a screening of a
Palestinian film in 2007, she went from being the favored candidate for
a tenure-track position to being denied even an interview. Her efforts
at redress were summarily rejected by NCSU and two courts.</P>
<P>A jury should be permitted to decide whether NCSU’s real reason for
firing Dr. Ginsberg was its hostility to her political views, but this
legal right has been denied.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal>You can sign the letter <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/open-letter-to-nc-supreme-court-ginsberg-vs-ncsu.html">here</A>.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>While the judgments against Ginsberg have been
disappointing and frustrating, the litigation process forced the
university to go on record citing their suppression of Ginsberg’s free
speech. As Ginsberg writes in <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://ginsbergvsncsu.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/ginsberg-vs-ncsu/">her
blog</A>,</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal>The case entered litigation in December 2009. In May
2010, the parties underwent a mediation hearing mandated by the <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.5,-80.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=35.5,-80.0%20%28North%20Carolina%29&t=h">State
of North Carolina</A> at which no settlement was reached. A week of
depositions followed, during which <SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">NCSU admitted that it suppressed my
speech critical of Zionism and supportive of the Palestine liberation
struggle while I was under its employ as a visiting professor, and that
it chose not to interview or hire me for a tenure-track position because
of my scholarship focusing on Palestine/Israel, the Middle East, and the
“Jewish.”</SPAN> Amazingly, the University claims that it has the right
to suppress, refuse and reject on the basis of these considerations!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Ginsberg’s Supreme Court appeal makes it clear that
this case has implications on multiple levels: this is an issue of
academic freedom, in which the university dismissed an instructor
because they disliked their politics. It’s also a case of employee
protections, or lack thereof, because it was Ginsberg’s politics, and
not her performance, that led to her dismissal.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal>In her own words,</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">On December
20, 2011, we filed a </SPAN><A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://ginsbergvsncsu.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/petition-for-discretionary-review_20-december-2011.pdf">Petition
for Discretionary Review</A><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">
with the North Carolina Supreme Court of this outrageously cursory and
dismissive opinion (see </SPAN><A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/12/27/1735677/ginsberg-appeals-ruling-on-ncsu.html">new
article in Associated Press</A><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">).</SPAN> The petition argues that
the Appellate Court decision, like that of the lower court before it,
changes the standard of proof in summary judgment employment decisions,
wrongfully preventing the case from a hearing before a jury. The ruling
thereby eviscerates the academic freedom protections which North
Carolina’s constitution provides, <STRONG>and gives employers <EM>carte
blanche</EM> to discriminate on employment decisions. It also sets a bad
example for other states in failing to protect the academic freedom of
professors and, in effect, narrowing the scope of speech to which
students may be exposed. </STRONG>[emphasis added.]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal>The news here is that Ginsberg is NOT giving up. The
university has admitted that they objected to her views on Israel and
Palestine. Ginsberg has lost her job and lost countless other job
opportunities because of this experience, and young people in North
Carolina and at other schools are missing the opportunity to study with
this courageous scholar. But Ginsberg is fighting back. You can support
her. Sign this <A
href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/150615/24847709/0/http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/open-letter-to-nc-supreme-court-ginsberg-vs-ncsu.html">petition</A>.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>- Muzzlewatch staff report</P>
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