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      <b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#990000">YUFA condemns rise
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                                        style="color:black">The York
                                        University Faculty Association
                                        (YUFA) condemns the recent rise
                                        of anti-Semitic incidents that
                                        have taken place in the United
                                        States and Canada, including at
                                        York University. These attacks
                                        are hate crimes that
                                        deliberately target the Jewish
                                        community: places of worship,
                                        community centres, cemeteries,
                                        neighbourhoods, and individual
                                        members on campus or at work. We
                                        oppose these attacks in the
                                        strongest terms possible.  At
                                        this troubling time, we stand
                                        against all forms of hate,
                                        racism and anti-Semitism.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                        style="color:black">These
                                        attacks are not happening in a
                                        vacuum. They have emerged in a
                                        period in which bigots, racists
                                        and anti-Semites increasingly
                                        feel emboldened to spread their
                                        hateful ideas and to commit acts
                                        of hate. Along with
                                        anti-Semitism, anti-Black racism
                                        and Islamophobia have also been
                                        on the rise. YUFA opposes <i>all</i>
                                        forms of hate and racism, and
                                        remains committed to supporting
                                        and defending any community
                                        under attack.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                        style="color:black">While acts
                                        of hate are meant to divide us
                                        from one another, they have, in
                                        some instances, achieved the
                                        opposite effect: a greater sense
                                        of unity among communities who
                                        resist. In the wake of the
                                        terror attack against a Quebec
                                        City mosque, in which six Muslim
                                        men were murdered, the Jewish
                                        community in Toronto was among
                                        the first to generate solidarity
                                        for the city’s Muslims—in
                                        several locations, organizing
                                        “rings of peace” around
                                        neighbourhood mosques during
                                        Friday prayers. Similarly, when
                                        Jewish cemeteries were recently
                                        desecrated in the United States,
                                        groups of Muslim activists
                                        raised tens of thousands of
                                        dollars to repair the damage.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                        style="color:black">All of us
                                        can play a role in generating
                                        solidarity, following the lead
                                        of our Jewish and Muslim
                                        colleagues and friends. As
                                        teachers and community leaders
                                        at York, faculty are well poised
                                        to speak out against hate
                                        whenever we or our students and
                                        colleagues encounter it. Indeed,
                                        we have a special responsibility
                                        to do so.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                        style="color:black">In the weeks
                                        and months ahead, let us do our
                                        part to counter and shift the
                                        broader political climate, and
                                        build the kind of community in
                                        which all its members enjoy the
                                        dignity and respect they
                                        deserve.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                        style="color:black">This
                                        statement is available <a
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                                          href="http://www.yufa.ca/yufa-condemns-rise-of-anti-semitic-incidents/">online</a>
                                        and in <a
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href="http://www.yufa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/YUFA-condemns-rise-of-anti-Semitic-incidents.pdf">PDF</a>.
                                        Please download and share
                                        widely.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                        style="color:black">Read “<a
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                                          href="http://www.yufa.ca/unite-against-hate-racism-and-islamophobia/">Unite
                                          against hate, racism and
                                          Islamophobia</a>,” posted on
                                        January 30, 2017.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                        style="color:black">Read “<a
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                                          target="_blank"
href="http://www.yufa.ca/after-the-us-election-yufa-statement-against-all-forms-of-oppression/">After
                                          the US election: YUFA
                                          statement against all forms of
                                          oppression</a>,” posted on
                                        November 17, 2016.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#990000" lang="EN-GB">York University
                                            Faculty Association</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                            lang="EN-GB">YUFA</span></span><span
                                          style="color:black"
                                          lang="EN-GB"> is the
                                          professional association and
                                          certified bargaining agent for
                                          approximately 1,500 faculty,
                                          librarians and archivists, and
                                          post-doctoral visitors at York
                                          University.</span><span
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