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 […]
An Israel-Hating Academic’s Obsession
At the University of Toronto Law School, a faculty committee recommended that Valentina Azarova be hired as the director of the school’s International Human Rights Program. The Dean of the Law School, Edward Iacobucci, disagreed with the committee’s recommendation and did not make the offer. That has led to a great contretemps, with the Dean […]