{"id":70811,"date":"2026-04-03T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/university-of-washington-professor-fired-from-director-job-after-sending-email-criticizing-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:55:45","slug":"university-of-washington-professor-fired-from-director-job-after-sending-email-criticizing-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/university-of-washington-professor-fired-from-director-job-after-sending-email-criticizing-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aria Fani of University of Washington\u2019s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US university<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A University of Washington professor was removed as head of the school\u2019s Middle East Center after reportedly using newsletters from the center to criticize the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US and Israel\u2019s war on Iran<\/a> and describe Zionism as \u201ccancerous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His case is one of at least three incidents in the past month in which higher education faculty members have faced suspension or dismissal after voicing opposition to US-Israeli actions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/03\/washington-college-professor-fired-iran-war-criticism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aria Fani of University of Washington\u2019s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US university Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A University of Washington professor was removed as head of the school\u2019s Middle East Center after reportedly using newsletters from &#8230; <a title=\"University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/university-of-washington-professor-fired-from-director-job-after-sending-email-criticizing-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}