Well, it’s in the courts now. The Philadel­phia Inquir­er head­line reads For­mer Friends’ Cen­tral teach­ers sue school after fir­ing over Pales­tin­ian pro­fes­sor invite while the PhillyVoice has an arti­cle on the dis­crim­i­na­tion case filed by two teach­ers fired by Friends’ Cen­tral School last year and the

Ariel Eure and Lay­la Hel­wa allege the Quak­er school vio­lat­ed their civ­il rights by sus­pend­ing and ter­mi­nat­ing them last year for sup­port­ing stu­dent protests to per­mit the Pales­tin­ian pro­fes­sor [Sa’ed Atshan] to speak. Addi­tion­al­ly, they claim school admin­is­tra­tors con­duct­ed a smear cam­paign after they were fired.

Friends Jour­nalcov­ered the inci­dent last year, as did mul­ti­ple news out­lets. It also came up in an inter­view I had with Sa’ed Atshan a few months ago. When we con­tact­ed Friends’ Cen­tral to fact-check Sa’ed’s account, the school could­n’t point to any inac­cu­ra­cies but still said “we dis­agree with the fact pat­tern, includ­ing the time­frame, as described.” I still not sure what that’s even sup­posed to mean.

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