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This brief is respectfully submitted on behalf of concerned Canadian scholars and researchers in response to a proposal put forward to this Committee that constitutes outside interference in the governance of scholarly research and threatens academic freedom and integrity.

CAUT opposes the adoption of or reliance on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism and the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism as a basis for defining what constitutes antisemitism or for otherwise suppressing speech deemed as controversial, troubling, or offensive in Canadian universities.

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO), and the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN) steering committee, object to the publication today of a handbook offering guidelines for the application of the widely-discredited International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) redefinition of antisemitism. The handbook was mandated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2021 and issued today by Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, Deborah Lyons.

On October 6th, 2024, the Jewish Faculty Network held a Mourners' Kaddish service on the anniversary of October 7, 2023.

The national Steering Committee of the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN SC) commends both the University of Windsor and the student encampment participants for engaging in good-faith negotiations leading to a meaningful agreement. The agreement represents the highest ideals of the core mission of Universities and is emblematic of a commitment to democratic principles, human rights, international law, and rigorous academic exchange.