Six prominent Canadian universities are facing a series of proposed class-action lawsuits with claims that Jewish students are unsafe on campus.

Six prominent Canadian universities are facing a series of proposed class-action lawsuits with claims that Jewish students are unsafe on campus.

The list includes Queen’s University, York University, Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of British Columbia. The prominent Toronto-based personal injury law firm, Diamond and Diamond, has also listed many of their student unions.

Hamilton, Ont.'s McMaster University and its student union are the latest to face legal action. A statement of claim, dated Jan. 3, alleges that “McMaster University has become, for over a decade, home to systemic discrimination, harassment, hatred, antisemitism, violent discourse, and actual or threatened physical harm amongst the student body.”

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  • deegeese
    263·
    6 months ago

    It’s an attempt to force university administrators to repress speech about Israel committing genocide.

    • spider@lemmy.nz
      141·
      6 months ago

      And it’s not necessarily limited to universities:

      House Declares Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism, Dividing Democrats

      More than half of House Democrats declined to back the Republican-written resolution, as some argued that equating criticism of the state of Israel with hatred of the Jewish people went too far.

      “Under this resolution, those who love Israel deeply but criticize some of its policy approaches could be considered anti-Zionist,” Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the longest-serving Jewish member of the House, said in a floor speech before he voted “present.”

    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caOP
      81·
      6 months ago

      The article specifically addresses this:

      Zisckind says she takes no issue with free speech on campuses.

      "You can disagree with Israel, you can say there needs to be a ceasefire, those are things that are tantamount to free speech, but you cannot say we need to kill the Jews,” she explains.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        104·
        6 months ago

        So do they have any evidence of someone saying that and having University administrations backing them? And no, ‘from the river to the sea’ doesn’t count.