{"id":10032,"date":"2011-06-26T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10032"},"modified":"2011-11-27T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:03:14","slug":"anti-semitism-at-the-university-of-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/26\/anti-semitism-at-the-university-of-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-semitism at the University of Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post-graduate students at the U of T may have gotten a bit too honest and outspoken<\/a> in class:<\/p>\n

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Picture the following: A discussion in a post-graduate university class on the topic of Jews turns ugly. The professor is uncritical when one student says he doesn\u2019t want to be around Jews. Another student complains about \u201crich Jews,\u201d implying their excessive power. In a subsequent class, the same professor, as if to validate those points, says half her department faculty are Jews and with her approbation, students conduct a \u2018Jew count\u2019. <\/p>\n

While this sounds like an episode in Germany leading up to the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, it occurred more recently and much closer to home, at the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Social Work. Now, more details are emerging under the exceptional circumstance of two U of T professors publicly criticizing a colleague for facilitating classroom anti-Semitism and the university administration\u2019s inadequate response. <\/p>\n

The controversy began when some visible minority students in a Social Work Master\u2019s program at the University of Toronto expressed discomfort about being around \u201crich Jews,\u201d in Professor Rupaleem Bhuyan\u2019s class, regarding a proposed outing in 2009 to the Baycrest Centre, an internationally renowned Jewish geriatric and research facility. They were undoubtedly confident of a sympathetic ear from her. The previous year, Bhuyan denounced Israel as a satellite of the United States, unworthy of distinction as a separate country.<\/p>\n

The few Jewish students in Bhuyan\u2019s Master’s Program class were intimidated into silence for much of the discussion by a classroom culture slanted against them. Finally, one young woman spoke up, protesting her grandparents had come to Canada with virtually nothing and she was proud her family could now afford the fees for them to reside at Baycrest.<\/p>\n

That must have rung an alarm bell for Professor Bhuyan, because startlingly, she then admonished her students not to divulge what transpired in class to outsiders. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Ilkka<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Post-graduate students at the U of T may have gotten a bit too honest and outspoken in class: Picture the following: A discussion in a post-graduate university class on the topic of Jews turns ugly. The professor is uncritical when one student says he doesn\u2019t want to be around Jews. Another student complains about \u201crich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,79,10,53],"tags":[304,207,764],"class_list":["post-10032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-education","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-antisemitism","tag-toronto","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2BO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12263,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}