Preliminary First Amendment win for Texas professor

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas State University philosophy professor Idris Robinson won a preliminary injunction ordering the university to reinstate him to his position as a tenure-track assistant professor. The university declined to renew his contract after people complained that he gave a speech titled “Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance” in Asheville, North Carolina. His The Israel-Palestine conflict is a matter of public concern, the speech did not disrupt university operations and t...