Speaking for Palestine may cost you your academic job in the US

"A former visiting professor at North Carolina State University claims in a lawsuit that she was abruptly dropped from consideration for a permanent post after her comments she made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Terri Ginsberg said she had been a top tier candidate for a position in the university's film studies department until Oct. 24, 2007, when she gave an introduction to a movie called "Ticket to Jerusalem" at a film screening series on Middle Eastern topics.  Ginsberg said she gave the audience background on the Palestinian filmmaker, and thanked them for attending. "By doing so, I stated, the audience was showing its support for the airing of Palestinian cultural perspectives, especially those which promote Palestinian liberation," she wrote in a sworn statement.  Superior Court Judge Shannon Joseph's dismissed the lawsuit, but Ginsberg's lawyers filed an appeal late last month. No hearing date before the state Court of Appeals has been scheduled yet. If the appeal succeeds, the case would go back to Superior Court, potentially for a jury trial.  University spokesman Keith Nichols said the school doesn't comment on ongoing litigation." (thanks Paul)