Interview: Canadian social work student confronts antisemitism in her program

I didn’t want to be in an environment with people that hate me. I think no other student needs to deal with that. Why do I? I hated every day, I hated everything I was studying. * * * * * I must admit, as a former family therapist who trained in Canada in the […]

York University Admin Takes a Page From the United Nations Cookbook

If it is good enough for the UN, it must be good enough for York University. Since the negotiation process seeking to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict (involving Arabs now living under the Palestinian Authority/Hamas) is going so well, Toronto’s York University decided to implement the same approach to a problem on their campus. They were […]

This Scares Me More than Trump or Hillary

Scared about Trump becoming the next president? Scared about Hillary? Here is what scares me more than either of them: anti-Semitic propaganda and the American student! We hear so much about BDS and antisemitism on American (and Canadian) campuses. And we hear about how antisemitic propaganda, in the guise of being pro-Palestinian is drawing American […]

Naomi Friedman: Understanding New Symbols of Antisemitism

Confronting antisemitism today is more difficult than in the past because antisemites are becoming increasingly devious and antisemitic events are less “in-your-face” than the mass protests and violence characterizing earlier years. I want to use the antisemitic mural that was put up in the Student Center at York University in 2013 to demonstrate contemporary symbols […]