The latest act in the saga of the controversial academic Norman Finkelstein ended not with a bang - or at least a hunger strike and civil disobedience - but with a whimper: a settlement with DePaul University, in Chicago, that secured his resignation.
As Inside Higher Education reports Mr Finkelstein - a critic of the Holocaust "industry" - agreed to go quietly after being refused tenure, but the university's statement praised him as a "prolific scholar and an outstanding teacher".
His arch adversary, Harvard law Prof Alan Dershowitz, a strong supporter of Israel who engaged in a long and bitter public debate with Mr Finkelstein, was unimpressed.
"The university has traded truth for peace," Prof Dershowitz told the Chicago Tribune. "The statement that [Finkelstein] is a scholar is simply false. He's a propagandist."
The episode has raised issues of academic freedom in the view of Mr Finkelstein's supporters and has divided blog opinion. There is Sympathy from the Desert Peace blog and from fellow DePaul academic Matthew Abraham.
But continued hostility at Little Green Footballs or Simply Jews.
Last month, Mr Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry, which made accusations that some Jews were abusing the legacy of the Holocaust, had his classes at DePaul axed.
Prof Dershowitz campaigned to prevent his opponent securing tenure at DePaul.
