Mar 4, 2021
Organization calls it “morally grotesque” that U of T is hosting an event affiliated with a known Palestinian arch-terrorist.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
B’nai Brith Canada is calling out the University of Toronto for using the image of a notorious Palestinian terrorist to promote an upcoming event, noting the ongoing problem with anti-Semitic incidents on the campus of Canada’s largest university.
This week, the U of T Institute of Islamic Studies, Department of History and Center for the Study of the United States are scheduled to co-host an event with the bizarre title: “Liberated Students in a Colonised Campus: Reflections on the Palestinian Experience at the University of Toronto.”
Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. Photo: Alex Chis.
In a ruling announced on Thursday, the University of Toronto said it would require the Graduate Students’ Union to stop forcing students to fund the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. It was the first time a Canadian university has intervened to stop a student group from promoting BDS.
The Complaint and Resolution Council for Student Societies (CRCSS), a university organization, had received a complaint in February 2020 about the BDS committee on the student group.
The claim, brought forward by U of T graduate student Chaim Katz and supported by B’nai Brith Canada, asked whether a student society at the university could “embark on a campaign of economic and academic warfare against people of a certain nationality, and forcibly conscript its members to the campaign by way of their membership fees?”