Statements

Lettre adressée au Musée canadien des droits de la personne à l’occasion de l’inauguration de l’exposition « Palestine déracinée : La Nakba au passé et au présent », signée par Voix juives indépendantes Canada (VJI), l’Ordre du Peuple juif uni – Canada (UJPO) et les Professeur.es juives et juifs du Canada (JFN).

A Letter to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on the Opening of “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” from Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN), and United Jewish Peoples’ Order (UJPO).

We write to you in our capacity as the Steering Committee of the Jewish Faculty Network, co-authored with our JFN-TMU chapter. We are a membership-driven organization with hundreds of faculty members across the country, working together to uphold and protect principles of anti-racism and equity based on our Jewish traditions and values. We have JFN chapters across the country, united by a statement of principles centred on anti-racism.

We write as the Jewish Faculty Network, an organization made up of over 200 faculty members and librarians at universities and colleges across Canada, deeply troubled by a recent Toronto District School Board (TDSB) decision to receive the report “Affirming Jewish Identity and Addressing Anti-Semitism Strategy” on February 13, 2025.

The abduction and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, coupled with ongoing threats to university funding and crackdowns on activists, academics, and the imprisonment and attempted deportation of those without U.S. citizenship, has stirred collective horror and rage among members of the Jewish Faculty Network, whose membership includes more than 200 faculty members at universities across Canada.