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Michael Higgins: Toronto Metropolitan University is a disgrace

External review reveals a campus overrun with antisemitism

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The cesspit of antisemitism that has been permitted to fester at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is laid bare in a just released report by former Ontario Appeal Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto. 

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Jewish students spat on, pelted with sour milk, intimated, harassed, threatened, and living in fear because a university was unable to tackle the scourge of antisemitism that swept through its halls after Oct. 7, 2023. 

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In an astonishing statement, one tenured professor pleaded with the Jewish community to send their children anywhere but TMU. 

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 “I will tell anyone, with great sorrow, anyone in the Jewish community, not to have their children apply to TMU. Can you imagine that? I love this university and I’ve worked here for (over a decade),” the professor told Benotto. 

“It’s given me my entire professional life. Now I tell........

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