Dear friends: Here is the latest headline: STEVEN SALAITA BY THE NUMBERS: 5 CANCELLED LECTURES, 3 VOTES OF NO CONFIDENCE, 3849 BOYCOTTERS, & 1 NYT ARTICLE & OVER 17,000 PETITIONERS!. See Corey Robin's latest blog [ http://wp.me/p1FPJG-1BF], which gives an update on all the latest numbers and in which he says, "Now that the Times has [weighed in with a strong piece on the Salaita affair http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/world/americas/illinois-revoked-job-offer-after-professor-criticized-israel.html?_r=2], I'm hoping Salaita's story will get even more attention, possibly from the networks as well. Second, in addition to covering the basics of the case, the piece shows just how divisive and controversial Chancellor Wise's decision has been, and how isolated it has made the University of Illinois. ...The AAUP brings up the issue of Salaita's financial standing. If you haven't donated to the fund set up by his friends and colleagues to help him fight his case and support his family, please do so now. Click on this link and then go to the right-hand side of the page. http://supportstevensalaita.com/ " ALSO SEE MY OP-ED IN AL JAZEERA ENGLISH [aje.me/1qszsEk], in which I quote some of your comments. For example, "Your unconvincing excuse for firing Professor Salaita is astutely challenged by petitioner Aaron Dailey Davis, who commented, 'There is nothing outrageous about Prof Salaita's honest and heartfelt commentary on the brutal, day-after-day-for-weeks long, massacre of the Palestinians - his people - that we all witnessed over the last month. It is the act of you firing him that is outrageous. It is you telling a Palestinian man who teaches the history of colonial slaughter in the Americas that he cannot respond accurately to the colonial slaughter of his own people that is outrageous.'' I conclude with: " But, Chancellor, the remarkable thing is that, by its discredited action in firing Professor Salaita, your administration has managed to unite against them thousands of faculty on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the name of academic freedom and due process. I urge you to stand again with these thousands of principled people who are concerned about Professor Salaita's academic future as a brilliant rising scholar in his field, and restore your reputation and the battered prestige of your own university. Otherwise, this fight is far from over." Yes, the fight is far from over.