York University’s decision is part of a broader tactic by Israel advocacy organizations that is quickly emerging across Canadian university campuses—censoring Palestinian human rights groups. Both the University of Manitoba Student Union and the University of Regina Student Union have recently passed resolutions that effectively ban Palestine solidarity organizing on campus. “By claiming that SAIA’s work offends and alienates certain students is a preposterous reason for censoring a student club,” said Levitan. “If everything deemed offensive were censored, what kind of a society would we be living in? Criticizing any government’s policies should be welcomed at a university, not silenced.”
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Sue Goldstein from IJV Toronto speaks at an Israeli Apartheid Week event.
SAIA is organizing very successfully around ideals that universities should be cultivating rather than censoring.

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