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Your article ¡°Israel critic ­voted out¡± (June 15) strongly implies that De Paul University denied Norman Finkelstein tenure because of his criticism of Israel. This mis­charac­terises the reason for his tenure denial.

According to a letter written by Dennis Holts­chneider, the president of De Paul, the decision to deny Finkelstein tenure was based on his ¡°unprofessional personal attacks¡± on those who oppose his ideology and on an academic assessment that his scholarship is based on bias and rhetoric rather than on objective ­evidence.

The very idea that an aca­demic has to support Israel in order to get tenure at De Paul, or any other American university, is ludicrous.

Lesley Klaff
Sheffield Hallam University