Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal

Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

A tenured professor at San Jose State University in California is fighting for her job after the university fired her last month over her pro-Palestinian activism - the first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza.

Sang Hea Kil, a longtime member of the university's justice studies department and a faculty adviser for its students for justice in Palestine chapter, is the latest in a growing list of university professors and staff who have been suspended, investigated, and in some cases dismissed or forced out in connection to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that swept US campuses in the first year of Israel's war in Gaza.