College professor Steven G. Salaita had a job offer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign revoked because of his "venomous" and "over-the-top" tweets regarding Israel, according to an article posted Wednesday.

Salaita, who had been a member of the faculty at Virginia Tech University, had accepted an offer to join the American Studies department at UIUC. But the normal formality of having appointments confirmed by the board of trustees was anything but normal for Salaita, who found his offer revoked due to his "loathsome and foul-mouthed presence in social media," specifically regarding the conduct of Israel.

As Inside Higher Ed pointed out, Salaita took the anti-Israel rhetoric common among college professors to an entirely different level: 

For instance, there is this tweet: "At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anybody be surprised? #Gaza." Or this one: "By eagerly conflating Jewishness and Israel, Zionists are partly responsible when people say antisemitic shit in response to Israeli terror." Or this one: "Zionists, take responsibility: if your dream of an ethnocratic Israel is worth the murder of children, just fucking own it already."