Hassan Diab teaches the course Social Justice in Action, which consists heavily of him pleading his innocence in the French conviction

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On the same weekend that Montreal hosted a conference featuring the head of Samidoun, Canada’s newest listed terror organization, Ottawa’s Carleton University faced renewed outrage for employing a lecturer wanted as a convicted terrorist.

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Last year, 70-year-old Hassan Diab was convicted in absentia by a French court in connection with the 1980 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris.

The explosion, which killed four people, was the first deadly attack against French Jews since the Second World War — and marked the beginning of a new era of French antisemitic violence committed by Palestinian or Islamist terrorists.

This fall, Diab is teaching the third-year course Social Justice in Action at Carleton — a fact that made headlines in Jewish and Israeli media over the weekend after it was the subject of an open letter by the group B’nai Brith.

Addressed to Carleton University president Jerry Tomberlin, the letter demands Diab’s dismissal, saying it “raises significant questions regarding Carlton’s dedication to the safety and well-being of its students and staff.”

One of the victims in the 1980 bombing was Israeli cinematographer Aliza Shagrir, whose widowed husband Micha Shagrir became one of the central figures of Israeli cinema.

“Apparently carrying out a murderous terrorist act against a........

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