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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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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
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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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
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>
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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>
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style="color:black">This
statement is available <a
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style="color:black">Read “<a
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target="_blank"
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>
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style="color:black">Read “<a
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onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);"
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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