APalestinian professor, whose speech at last month’s National Communication Association conference was canceled after she was told that association leaders objected to her calling the deaths in Gaza “genocide,” says she is again facing a familiar situation.
Once again, it involves at least one communications professional taking issue with Professor Ahlam Muhtaseb’s use of that charged term—but the pushback has now come from her own university. And, she says, she didn’t even use the word this time.
On Nov. 30, an “Inside CSUSB” email, containing a list of news and links regarding California State University, San Bernardino, went out to campus and the press, she said. Muhtaseb provided Inside Higher Ed the email, which contains this item about her:
