Joel Kovel, critic of Israel, fired by Bard

by E Wayne Ross on February 23, 2009

Inside Higher Ed: Anti-Israel Prof Loses Post at Bard

Joel Kovel — one of the more outspoken professorial critics of Israel on American college campuses — is out of his job at Bard College. This week Kovel sent a letter to all Bard faculty members denouncing the way he has been treated and charging that his politics cost him the position.