O Canada! Our home and native land! #1. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Project Title: “Reclaiming Nature Spaces: Structures of resistance to historical marginalization in outdoor culture.” Application Deadline: January 15, 2024 (or until appropriate candidate is selected) [I apologize for not getting this notice to you in time for you to apply.] Start Date: September 2024 […]
University of Toronto: ‘Rights expert’ accused of ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ for discussion of today’s anti-Semitism
UPDATE, May 27, 2022: Ensaf Haidar has tweeted this: Irwin Cotler has just learned, or should have learned, that no matter how much you try to appease the Left, Leftists will still come after you if you deviate from their orthodoxy. I would expect, however, that this lesson still eludes him. In February 2019, I […]
University of Toronto student on ‘Islamophobia’: ‘You can’t tell me my fear is irrational’
Yes, I can. Watch me: Your fear is irrational. Why? The London, Ontario attack was a heinous crime, but it was a one-off. It was not an indication that Muslims must live in fear in Canada. Muslims are freer and safer in Canada than they are in many majority-Muslim countries. Muslims in Canada do not […]
Canada: Jewish Tax Court judge barred from presiding over cases involving Muslims
CBC reports: Legal experts are puzzled by why the Tax Court of Canada prevented a Jewish judge from presiding for several months in cases involving members of the Islamic faith rather than removing him entirely from the bench until allegations against him were resolved. It is more puzzling that Judge David Spiro would be subjected to […]
Did ‘Powerful Zionists’ in Canada Deny a Law Professor a Post?
One more of those stories about a potential hire of a pro-Palestinian faculty member, the opposition expressed – quite understandably — to that hire, and the antisemitic charge that a “powerful Zionist” cabal had prevented the hire. The story is here: “Canadian Jewish Group Asks Government to Intervene in University of Toronto Hiring Controversy […]
University of Toronto Law School Under Fire for ‘Rescinding’ Job Offer to Israel-Hating Academic
At the University of Toronto, acting on their own without consulting the Dean, several faculty members of a search committee did not only recommend a candidate for the job of director of the school’s International Human Rights Program – which was their prerogative – but did what they had no authority to do: they offered […]
Canadian International Council warned about speaker from National Council of Canadian Muslims it featured at event
An alarming letter by the Lawfare Project in New York City has been sent to the Canadian International Council Board Members, Trinity College in the University of Toronto and NGO’s about an event they hosted on October 17, 2017, entitled “Canada And The World: Views From Canadian Muslims.” The alarm about this event concerns the […]
Toronto: Muslim prof says “nothing radical” about wanting Sharia and caliphate
Professor Katherine Bullock from the University of Toronto said: from an Islamic point of view this absolutely nothing radical about wanting Caliphate or wanting Sharia. These are completely normal traditional points of view. Bullock is right. Normative Islam is political Islam. One need only look at Islamic states to understand the nature and centrality of […]