University of Toronto’s medical school has been permeated with antisemitism and discrimination, charges a new report from one of its professors
“No Jewish student or faculty can feel safe in that university,” Dr. Philip Berger said.
A speech by Irwin Cotler on Holocaust Remembrance Day provoked charges of anti-Palestinian racism and antisemitism at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine
A speech by Irwin Cotler to the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine on Holocaust Remembrance Day has spurred angry recriminations and two open letters to the acting dean of the medical school. Cotler, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, was invited by the medical school’s Office of Diversity and […]
Chaim Katz’s six-year battle culminates in the University of Toronto withholding $10,918 earmarked for the BDS caucus in a graduate student union
The University of Toronto will begin withholding a portion of student fees from the Graduate Students Union that were earmarked for promoting sanctions against Israel. The move to withhold $10,918 from the UofT Graduate Student Union (UTGSU), the amount the university calculates was used to support its boycott, divestment and sanctions caucus, was announced […]
University of Toronto’s downtown campus student union endorsed a boycott of Israel with a close vote
The student union at the University of Toronto’s downtown St. George campus endorsed a call to boycott Israel at a special meeting Feb. 16. The measure passed with a slim majority of 56 votes. The resolution calls on the University of Toronto Student Union (UTSU) to “wholly divest funds (and) further on forbid investment to […]
University of Toronto’s plan to tackle antisemitism gets a cool response from Jewish advocacy groups
The final report of the University of Toronto’s Antisemitism Working Group was released earlier this week to a tepid reception from Jewish organizations. The report’s eight recommendations call for giving the university’s Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office responsibility for addressing antisemitism and ensuring that equity staff are adequately equipped to address antisemitism in the same […]
Anyone surprised by University of Toronto’s BDS motion hasn’t been paying attention, says former student Tyler Samuels
“I feel uncomfortable letting anyone know I am a Jew at this school. I sometimes fear that by wearing my Star of David around my neck, someone will assault me, verbally or physically, because I support Israel. A social movement should unite people, not place people in fear.” I wrote this eight years ago as […]
University of Toronto officials—including school president Meric Gertler—condemn student union resolutions on BDS, Jewish students’ rights
There was no indication on Monday, Nov. 29,that the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus Students’ Union (SCSU) would rescind or revise two controversial resolutions passed at its annual general meeting last week, following their condemnation by top university officials. In a Nov. 26 statement, UofT president Meric Gertler called the resolutions, one on support for […]
Will kosher food be taboo? University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus Student Union expands support for BDS
The University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus Student Union (SCSU) has voted to expand its support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel to curtail activities and services which “normalize Israeli apartheid,” including providers of kosher food. The BDS motion, moved by union president Sarah Abdillahi and its vice president of equity, Isaiah Murray, […]
An apology from University of Toronto faculty association president Terezia Zoric falls short, critics say
The president of the University of Toronto’s Faculty Association (UTFA) has apologized for remarks she made in June that accused an “entitled powerful Zionist minority” of conducting “psychological warfare.” But critics say her apology falls short. Terezia Zoric had accused “Zionists” of waging a campaign of “unending harassment and psychological warfare” against supporters of Valentina […]
Valentina Azarova declines job offer from UofT law school as the faculty group ‘pauses’ its censure
A scholar at the centre of a University of Toronto hiring controversy has rejected the school’s latest job offer. Valentina Azarova has been the focus of intense controversy on campus since 2020 when she was identified as the top candidate to be the director of the law school’s International Human Rights Program. The school ultimately […]
