College fires professor; views on Israel blamed
Pro-Palestinian adjunct professor preemptively fired by Brooklyn College, which struggles to explain why. An adjunct political science professor was fired Wednesday by Brooklyn College following complaints by a student and a local politician about his pro-Palestinian political views. The college maintains the instructor, graduate student Kristofer Petersen-Overton, was let go because he did not have proper credentials to teach a master's level course on Middle East politics. But there's evidence that other graduate students with the same level of experience as Petersen-Overton have had no trouble teaching advanced courses in the department both in the past and the present. And now a group of Brooklyn College professors are blasting the administration for undermining academic freedom.