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font-size:16pt">YUFA Exec urges President Lenton to
defend Prof. Faisal Bhabha's academic freedom</span></font></b><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span
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font-size:10pt">As an expression of
our unwavering support for academic
freedom,</span><span
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font-size:10pt"> YUFA's Executive
Committee has decided to share the
following letter sent from Osgoode
Hall Associate Professor Faisal Bhabha
to President Rhonda Lenton on August
25</span><span
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font-size:10pt">, 2020</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">.</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt"> This letter concerns
events that occurred subsequent to
earlier communications to YUFA members
following the publication of the
Cromwell Report.</span></font></div>
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font-size:10pt">In his letter,</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"> </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"> </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Bhabha
describes a shocking public campaign
against him that seeks to discredit
him and that calls on President Lenton
to prevent him from teaching courses
in his area of specialization,
international human rights. This
campaign, initiated by B'nai Brith,
was organized in response to comments</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"> </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"> </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Bhabha
made during an online panel </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">discussion
about the IHRA definition of
anti-Semitism</span><span
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font-size:10pt">.</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt"> </span><span
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font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
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font-size:10pt"> </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">Bhabha has
subsequently been the recipient of
significant hate mail and threats
against his life. This correspondence
has been turned over to Toronto Police
Services. Some of it replicates email
messages that a number of members of
YUFA's Race Equity Caucus received
earlier this year that were
Islamophobic in nature and similarly
threatening.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span
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font-size:10pt">The </span><span
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issued no public statement about these
events. </span><span
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font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
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font-size:10pt"> Bhabha requests that
President Lenton issue a public
statement condemning this provocative
campaign against </span><span
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font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt"> Bhabha. By sharing
this letter, we strongly endorse this
request and call on President Lenton
to issue a public statement condemning
the campaign of interference that has
alarmed his colleagues and students,
sullied his reputation, and endangered
his safety and wellbeing.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span
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font-size:10pt">The details of these
events are outlined in </span><span
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font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
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font-size:10pt"> Bhabha's letter</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">,</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"> which
appears below this statement.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">As the
professional associations and
certified bargaining agents of Osgoode
Hall </span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">full-time
faculty</span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA"> and York
University </span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">full-time
faculty</span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">, OHFA
and YUFA respectively have the
responsibility to protect and defend
the academic freedom of all
colleagues. </span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">The first
sentence of Article 10 </span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">in</span><span
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lang="EN-CA"> the </span><span
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lang="EN-CA"><span
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font-size:10pt"><a
href="https://www.yufa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Collective-Agreement-Part-1.pdf"
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Collective Agreement</a></span></span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"
lang="EN-CA">, which appears as
Article 11 in the </span><span
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lang="EN-CA"><span
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font-size:10pt"><a
href="https://www.osgoodefaculty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/YorkU_OHFA-CA-2019-2022.pdf"
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Collective Agreement</a></span></span><span
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lang="EN-CA">,</span><span
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th</span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">e </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"
lang="EN-CA">University</span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA"> </span><span
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lang="EN-CA">to </span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">uphold,
protect, and promote</span><span
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principle of academic freedom in a way
that sees this as more than just a
right of our (YUFA's) members: </span></font></div>
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font-size:10pt">"The parties agree
to continue their practice of
upholding, protecting, and promoting
academic freedom as essential to the
pursuit of truth and the fulfilment
of the University’s objectives."</span></font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span
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font-size:10pt">Academic freedom
concerns our right to teach, publish</span><span
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style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"> and
disseminate research in our academic
fields without political interference
from administrative or outside
bodies. </span><span
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font-size:10pt">The panel in which </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt"> Bhabha
spoke was hosted by Ryerson
University's Centre for Free
Expression, to which </span><span
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font-size:10pt">Prof.</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt"> Bhabha was invited to
speak in his capacity as an
internationally respected scholar and
legal authority on human rights.
York's commitment to "upholding,
protecting, and promoting academic
freedom" irrefutably applies to his
remarks in these proceedings.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span
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font-size:10pt">In addition to
defending the academic freedom of our
members to conduct research and
teaching in accordance with their
professional judgement and
qualifications, and supporting OHFA's
parallel defence of its members'
academic freedom, YUFA has asserted
our strong opposition to racist
discrimination and racist violence
against Black and Indigenous
communities and against all racialized
faculty and students. We wish to take
this opportunity to note that
Islamophobia</span><span
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font-size:10pt">, along with
anti-Semitism,</span><span
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font-size:10pt"> remains an equally
virulent form of racism in Canadian
society and that it continues to
tarnish and denigrate our academic
institutions through direct and
indirect attacks on the professional
and intellectual life and reputation
of university scholars and teachers.</span></font></div>
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font-size:10pt">We call on President
Lenton to publicly repudiate this
deplorable campaign against our
Osgoode Hall colleague and to state
clearly that the University supports
his academic freedom, esteems his
professional and scholarly
reputation, and denounces all
attacks on his personal dignity and
safety.</span></font></span></div>
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<div><span
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<div><span
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Committee</span></font></span></div>
<div><span
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Faculty Association</span></font></span></div>
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Faisal Bhabha to President Rhonda
Lenton</b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"
color="#000000"><span
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font-size:10pt">On June 23, 2020, B'nai
Brith issued a press release and posted
an online petition calling on you to bar
me from teaching</span><span
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </i></span><span
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font-size:10pt">human rights courses at
York. On July 14, 2020, you responded
privately to B'nai Brith in a letter
addressed personally to its CEO in which
you also referenced a prior phone call
discussion.</span></div>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt">To this day, I have not
received a phone call or communication
from you regarding the petition. More
importantly, the public has heard
absolutely nothing from the University
about the petition. The petition
triggered a wave of racist abuse
directed at me, which I assume to be one
of its objectives. The petition harmed
my professional reputation in the public
and within the University, which I also
assume to be one of its objectives.</span></div>
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font-size:10pt">As I prepare to go back
to fall teaching in my area of
expertise—human rights—and as one of the
few racialized faculty members teaching
in this area, the ugly smear that B'nai
Brith perpetrated against me has been
aggravated by your refusal to publicly
condemn that group's tactic and distance
York University from the racist backlash
directed at me personally.</span></div>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt">The petition arose from
my engagement in the core duties of my
employment as a scholar and teacher in
my areas of expertise. I participated in
an academic panel discussion organized
by Ryerson University's Centre for Free
Expression (CFE) and co-sponsored by the
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
(CCLA) on June 10, 2020 titled,
"Fighting Anti-Semitism or Silencing
Critics of Israel: What's Behind the
Push for Governments to Adopt the IHRA
Definition of Anti-Semitism?"</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt">The petition takes aim
at the substance of comments I made
during the forum. B'nai Brith took my
words out of context and presented them
as anti-Semitic. They claimed that I had
"smeared this country's Jewish
community" by transforming "hundreds of
thousands of Canadian Jews into 'Jewish
supremacists'", which is factually
untrue. It also alleges that I suggested
that the "Jewish State may have
'exaggerated' the murder of 6-million"
Jews, which is also a lie.</span></div>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">On that
basis, CEO Michael Mostyn demanded that
I "no longer teach any human rights
courses" at York. Independent Jewish
Voices (IJV) immediately </span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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lang="EN-CA"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt"><a
href="https://www.ijvcanada.org/open-letter-ijv-york-denounces-smear-campaign-against-faisal-bhabha/"
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petition as a gross distortion of my
words</a></span></span><span
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">.</span><span
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lang="EN-US"><u><span lang="EN-CA"></span></u></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt">The issue under
discussion in the panel—the IHRA
Definition of Anti-Semitism—was timely
and my remarks were well within the
ambit of lawful and respectful speech.
My credentials as someone who has lived
in the region and worked for both
Israeli and Palestinian human rights
organizations, represented human rights
causes for equality-seeking communities
in Canada as a lawyer, taught human
rights law for a dozen years as a law
professor, and served for three years as
Vice-chair of the Human Rights Tribunal
of Ontario more than qualified me to
express my opinions on the panel.
Moreover, the opinions I expressed were
not controversial or extreme. They were
consistent with my interpretation of the
facts, law and policy, and are shared by
fair-minded, well-informed and
reasonable people the world over. In my
opinion, the views expressed by some
other members of the panel could be
characterized as hard-line, right-wing
or misinformed. This is what made the
panel interesting: there were deeply
differing views. It is also worth noting
that I was the only racialized member of
the panel, as well as the only
non-Jewish speaker. It is also worth
noting that at least one other member of
the panel, Sheryl Nestel—a
self-identified Jewish Israeli—concurred
with and repeated my statements about
Israel but has faced none of the smear
that was directed at me.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt">Following the panel
event, I received scores of positive
messages from academic colleagues and
members of the public locally and
abroad, many whom I had never met
before. For nearly two weeks, I did not
receive a single piece of harassing,
discriminatory or abusive communication.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">Then, almost instantly
upon the B’nai Brith petition launching,
the messages began coming in: "Fuck you.
Pack your camel bags and leave." That
chilling message reminded me that no
matter what accomplishments I achieve,
my race and stereotypes about my
identity will always construct me as an
outsider. The insults continued to flow
for days. "Fraud", "liar", "hack",
"scumbag", "anti-Semite" are a few of
the epithets directed at me. I was
accused of being "a host for a virus"
and that my students "need to be
inoculated" against me. One writer
threatened to disrupt my classroom and
assault me: "I may have to attend one of
your lectures… I will assuredly not be
silent. Rotten eggs really smell..."
Many used racist language to describe
the Palestinian people, and "you
people"; others denigrated the academy.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">On the whole, the
negative feedback was miniscule compared
to the massive outpouring of support I
received. However, even one piece of
racist hate mail is an unacceptable cost
for engaging in legitimate scholarly
work. B'nai Brith should be held to
account for using dangerous dog-whistle
tactics against a racialized faculty
member. Moreover, while the University
should stand up for all of its faculty
members' academic freedom, it should do
so especially for a racialized faculty
member facing unwarranted and
unprecedented efforts from outside the
university to interfere in my academic
freedom.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">The intended and actual
impact of the baleful petition has been
to cast aspersions on my character,
undermine my credibility in my area of
scholarly and professional expertise,
and poison the minds of my students,
current and former, about my ability to
teach fairly and treat all respectfully.
It makes it more difficult for me to
support and mentor minority students. It
has harmed my reputation within the
legal community, the human rights
community, the Muslim community and the
broader community. Even those who know
that the accusation is false may be
chilled in associating with me by reason
of optics or fear. There is indeed a
widespread perception that I have been
wronged at the hands of B'nai Brith; but
the University's silence appears to
tacitly endorse the smear. This adds to
the perception that York University is
not even-handed, perpetuating a culture
of silencing and fear. This ultimately
erodes not only academic freedom, but
freedom of expression more generally. If
universities can't be trusted to stand
up for expressive freedom, who can?</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">The negative backlash I
have received is consistent with how
Muslims have generally been perceived
and treated in the post-9/11 era. It is
also consistent with how I've been
treated by right-wing trolls and bullies
for most of my career speaking out
against all forms of oppression. This is
not the first time that I've received
racist hate mail. False accusations are
made more easily against minorities and
are more likely to stick when they
exploit stereotypes. Groups like B'nai
Brith understand that falsely accusing a
Muslim of being intolerant or extremist,
in the context of post-9/11 Canadian
Islamophobia, is certain to cause injury
by inciting hateful and even violent
responses, regardless of the truth of
the allegation. Some of the more
threatening email I received as a result
of the petition is demonstrative of
this. B'nai Brith clearly either
intended this outcome or was reckless to
its likelihood.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">What is also clear from
the record is that if B'nai Brith truly
sought a dialogue with you about me, all
they had to do was pick up the phone.
You evidently have a strong and friendly
relationship with that group. The
petition was not about getting your
attention; it was about riling up the
base, unleashing the hate on me, and
setting an example for anyone else who
dares to speak their mind. It is this
tactic that you owed me and the broader
community a duty to denounce in no
uncertain terms.</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">My retired
colleague, Jamie Cameron, has penned </span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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lang="EN-CA"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt"><a
href="https://cfe.ryerson.ca/blog/2020/08/professor-petition-and-president-professor-bhabha-b%E2%80%99nai-brith-and-president-lenton"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">an insightful
piece on the relevant issues</a></span></span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">.</span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt"> </span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">Cameron has called out
your failure to fulfil a key leadership
mandate, namely to be accountable to
faculty. It is trite to say that
universities should be places where
ideas can be freely exchanged without
fear of reprisal or interference. It is
also trite to observe in this era of
elevated awareness of racism and the
legacy of white privilege that
university leaders must stand firm
against the unfair targeting of minority
faculty members. Yet, two months on, you
have still not publicly rejected the
racist petition calling for my removal.
I am demanding that you do that now. It
is not yet too late to get on the right
side of this.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
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font-size:10pt">Sincerely, </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt" lang="EN-CA">Faisal Bhabha,
Associate Professor</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">Osgoode Hall Law School
| York University</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">4700 Keele Street</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:10pt">Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| M3J 1P3</span></div>
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href="https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/bhabha-faisal/"
id="LPlnk" style="font-family: Arial,
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background:
var(--white);">View my research on my
SSRN Author page:</span></div>
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