‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians (Guardian, 2026-06-05)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/professor-suspended-assignment-mentions-palestinians
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>> A tenured art therapy professor [Savneet Talwar] at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) was suspended from teaching and placed under investigation following a student’s complaint about an assigned case study that mentioned violence against Palestinians.
>> Talwar told the Guardian in an exclusive interview that she was “stunned” by a suspension that appeared to be motivated by “the mere mention of the word Palestine”.
>> …[Rima Kapitan, Talwar’s attorney] “If a white supremacist student filed a discrimination complaint with the University alleging that he was triggered by a case study about a Black client who was struggling with police violence against Black people, would SAIC proceed with an investigation against the professor who drafted the assignment?”