| Oxford Discriminates against Christian Convert Professor |
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| by Tom McGregor | Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 08:55 AM |
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The Daily Telegraph of London reports that, “Dr. Tali Argov says she was overlooked for promotion stripped of her privileges and cold-shouldered at social gatherings. She says staff wanted to vet her lectures to make sure that, as a Christian, she would not criticize Israel.” Despite offering to assume new roles, she claims she was eventually made redundant from her post at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Dr. Argov told the Reading Employment Tribunal hearing this week, that, “it is my belief that following firstly the conversion of my husband and then the conversion of myself, the treatment which I received as an employee of the Respondents was very different and a number of incidents occurred which led me to believe that I was being discriminated against.” According to the Telegraph, “Dr. Argov told the hearing, where she is claiming unfair dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, that she and her husband, Eran were raised in the Jewish faith and lived in Israel until she was offered a place at Brasenose College, Oxford, to write a doctoral thesis.” In 1996, they moved to England and in 2000 Dr. Argov, then studying for a PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was offered the full-time post of professor as Lector of Modern Hebrew at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The center remains independent but its students are part of the traditional Oxford college system. Dr. Argov claimed that her “honeymoon” ended at Oxford when she announced her conversion from Judaism to Anglicanism. To read the entire article from the Daily Telegraph of London, link here:
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written by Booner , July 31, 2010 She should have converted to Islam. She would have gotten a raise.
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written by Tex Tradd , August 03, 2010 You write: A professor at the Univ"ersity of Oxford in England was discriminated against after she converted to Christianity." Were you there? What sort of epistemic vantage point do you have here? Now the assertions may very well be true, but are you not jumping the gun? Write comment
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A professor at the University of Oxford in England was discriminated against after she converted to Christianity. She was a lecturer at Oxford University’s center for Jewish Studies where colleagues discriminated against her.
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