Zionist activists such as Harvard neocon Alan Dershowitz have waged a relentless slander campaign against Finkelstein, and despite sterling reviews by various academic bodies, DePaul's administration caved in and denied him tenure.



University officials recently took the unprecedented step of cancelling Finkelstein's last year of classes and locking him out of his office. Professors who are denied tenure are traditionally given one more year to teach while they seek other employment.

The Faculty Council and the American Association of University Professors are both disputing the legality of the university's lock out as well as its refusal to allow Finkelstein to avail himself of the University's appeals process.

Beside's Friday's convocation protest, Finkelstein and his supporters in the Academic Freedom Committee will protest the lock out at 10:30 am, Wednesday, Sept 5th outside of the Political Science Department office at 990 W. Fullerton Avenue.



At first, just a few courageous professors, and then several, donned "We are all Norman Finkelstein" t-shirts that student organizers of the protest had made up.





After the politically tendentious tenure proceedings for Finkelstein, a decision that supposedly was to have been made on academic grounds, these junior faculty were putting their own future tenure decisions at risk.

Soon the student organizers ran out of T-shirts.