Dear Chancellor Wise, It's Tuesday morning, and your silence is still deafening. So many people (over 13,600 now) are reaching out to you from all over the world and they deserve a response. Here is a quick (skimmed from the top) selection of comments written by concerned people in various countries - just to show you how far your unjust and demeaning action is reverberating. Marius Berntsen OSLO, NORWAY You are helping making Dr. Steven Salaita a hero of the international struggle for justice and freedom from colonialism and Apartheid in Palestine aka. Israel. Stop it! . imran hussein MOMBASA, KENYA Innocent people are been killed and Palestinians need to live a life without the blockade!! nuage michel FRANCE marre de la censure académique! Fila Eli SOUTH JAKARTA, INDONESIA He speaks for many, especially occupied & oppressed citizen in Palestine & he is telling the truth maria jose serrano esteban MALAGA, SPAIN porque no se puede despedir a una persona por su libertad de expresion, ademas se está cometiendo genocidio verdaderamente y todo el mundo lo estamos viendo Kolin Thumbadoo SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA By your action of sacking Dr.Salaita you demean your institution, constitution and your country demonstrating to the world, once again, the racist hypocracy of your foreign policy and your subservient, slavish devotion to a Zionist minority which is actually subverting the real interests of the US in the Middle East and getting your tax payers to fund their oppression of the Palestinian people. Dominika Rolbiecka GDYNIA, POLAND Dr. Steven Salaita was right Fazlurrehman Sheikh MUMBAI, INDIA Freedom of Speech,and a person who dares to speak the truth should not be silenced in this manner. Peter Mayer GERMANY Ich unterschreibe, weil der Vorfall eine Missachtung der Meinungsfreiheit darstell! Wehret den Anfängen! Kerry Lancaster CHESTERFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM Representation of a diversity of political views and the capacity to challenge ideology should be fostered to ensure just societies Frigga Karl VIENNA, AUSTRIA Professor Salaita is a passionate defender of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. We are wittnessing genozide in Gaza. Words can not be hard enough for this major crime against humanity. I appreciate Dr. Steven Salaita's passionate statements in twitter.Netanyahu's mass murdering of children is the most barbarous behaviour in our modern history. We all have the duty to vigorously condemn such barbarous evolution of humanity! It is a shame for all of us that such barbarity is possible today. Dee Conlon LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM As an educator, I am deeply offended that we are not trusted to be professional with students. If we were to apply the same logic to other professions, will pro Palestine doctors be fired because they will be a danger to Jewish patients? If we are trying to be fair, why not fire Zionist professors who could be a "danger" to Muslim students? Playing politics have no place in educational institutions Isah matovu KAMPALA, UGANDA It shows how injustice in American society and Institutions is becoming INSTITUTIONALIZED!! Janie Smith NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND Because it's condoning the #Genocide of the #Palestinian people...And last but not least, when did it become a firing offence for speaking the truth...It would seem that freedom of speech is a thing of the past in #America, and if you tell the truth your called Anti-Semetic...This is a disgrace to every decent human being on the face of the planet...He picked the side of truth & fell pray to a pack of ravenous wolves... Kay Turberville MUSCAT, OMAN This sacking is an abuse of freedom of speech and academic freedom, and it is scandalous that a university should act in such a way. Hassan Qizilbash KARACHI, PAKISTAN Injustice needs to be fought. fay simjee DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA Promote individual free thinking and exercise knowledge - don't crush the human mechanism to develop wisdom We call on the university to honor its contract with Dr. Salaita and publicly apologize. Sincerely,