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A response to Oded Haklai's OpEd published in The Globe and Mail on November 2, 2023.

We write to you, as the Steering Committee of the Jewish Faculty Network, to share our grave concerns and growing alarm about the ongoing campaign against colleagues at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine due to their legitimate criticism of the State of Israel.

In August of this year (2022), approximately two dozen Canadian university presidents and university administrators traveled to Israel to meet with Israeli university administrators. The delegation was organized and led by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and funded or otherwise supported by several private foundations. With this statement, we the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN), join the calls for accountability and transparency expressed by Palestinian Canadian Academics and Artists Network (PCAAN), Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CPJME) and Independent Jewish Voices (IJV).

On December 9th, 2021, the Jewish Faculty Network held a press conference to launch the new group and to celebrate the recent Canadian Association of University Teachers’ motion challenging the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism.

The Jewish Faculty Network launched, applauds CAUT motion in opposition to the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism