Academic Freedom and Finkelstein's Tenure Case at DePaul

You can listen to talks from the recent conference at the University of Chicago here.  I have listened to bits and pieces of most of them.  The most striking, I think, is the talk by John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, who makes an absolutely compelling case that Finkelstein should have been tenured on the merits of his scholarship and that the only explanation for the tenure denial was political interference.  (This is notable, in part, because Finkelstein has been a critic of Mearsheimer and Walt's thesis about the influence of the Israel Lobby.)