CJPME Condemns Anti-Palestinian Prejudice at the @UofT.
We are alarmed by recent actions of the U of T that amount to censorship of critical scholarship about Israel, and should be understood as anti-Palestinian racism.
Read our statement: cjpme.org/pr_2020_09_23_… #cdnpoli #uoft
“It is completely unacceptable that the University of Toronto would submit to external pressure and punish a scholar for their work on Palestine" - @mbueckert cjpme.org/pr_2020_09_23_…
“The effect of the university’s actions is to marginalize and silence Palestinian voices within academia, and to make it much harder to investigate and discuss Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights. This must be properly understood as anti-Palestinian racism" @mbueckert
The U of T's behaviour sends the message that researching human rights violations – when those violations are committed by Israel – can disqualify you from pursuing human rights work more broadly in academia. cjpme.org/pr_2020_09_23_…
The interference in this case by an external judge also exposes the role of external pro-Israel lobbying campaigns in trying to shut down scholarship and activism on Palestinian narratives. The judge in question is a former board member of the Centre of Israel and Jewish Affairs.
CJPME fully endorses the open letter signed by over 1,000 lawyers and academics, which calls on the @UofT to restore Dr Azarova’s employment offer and issue an apology.
We encourage others to sign on: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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