You can read the backstory on this. It didn’t take the school very long to backtrack.
Tucson.com reports:
U of A reinstates professors after Hamas comments led to suspensionThe two University of Arizona professors suspended last month for their remarks about the Israel-Hamas war have officially returned to their positions.College of Education Dean Robert Berry said Friday that professors Rebecca Lopez and Rebecca Zapien are back from their suspensions with pay that were issued last month.“We reaffirm our commitment to an academic instructional setting that respects all viewpoints and is within the scope and educational purposes of our discipline in terms of materials provided in the classroom,” Berry wrote in a message to faculty, staff and students in the college. “Through our discussions with faculty, staff, students and community members, we are learning and growing as a college.”However, the United Campus Workers of Arizona union is criticizing the university because for the rest of the semester the department head, not Lopez and Zapien, will teach the class where the comments were made. Berry did not explain the decision.Lopez and Zapien were suspended after a recording of their class on cultural pluralism for young children was posted on the X (formerly Twitter) account @IsraelWarRoom, a pro-Israel platform with more than 260,000 followers.Posted in the thread were recordings of Lopez and Zapien speaking about the war. At one point, they conflated Hamas to the Black Panther party in the United States. In another, they shared ways students could boycott Israel. Some students in the class have claimed the clips were edited.
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