Carleton U fires Lebanese prof after B’nai Brith statement

By: Law is Cool · July 30, 2009 · Filed Under Labour & Employment Law, Politics · 7 Comments 

Carleton prof fired for alleged terror role

“This shows a total disregard for the presumption of innocence until proven guilty – and of academic freedom and due process. We’ve never seen anything like this at a Canadian university,” said Jim Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, which condemned Carleton’s move yesterday. …

Carleton sociology chair Peter Gose called Diab’s abrupt dismissal “appalling, a terrible injustice and fundamental breach of natural justice to terminate a contract without notice or consultation.”

A B’nai Brith statement said “Canadians should be extremely concerned that an alleged terrorist … will be teaching our youth at a leading Canadian university.”

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Cherniak “Shames” B’nai Brith Canada

By: Law is Cool · January 17, 2008 · Filed Under Civil Rights, Politics · 2 Comments 

Jason Cherniak has some sharp critique for B’nai Brith Canada.

He says on his blog,

If you read this article in the Canadian Jewish News, you will learn that B’nai Brith Canada is expelling 12 members, in part for questioning their pro-Conservative bias. That, in and of itself, is bad enough. However, I was amazed to read that one of those people is:

93-year-old Lou Ronson, the organization’s longest living member…he was instrumental in developing its League for Human Rights and was named one of B’nai Brith’s most outstanding 150 volunteers in its history.

B’nai Brith is an international organization. I wonder how that organization will react to these sorts of actions from its Canadian branch.

The Jewish Daily Forward describes the dissenters in the organization as stating,

…that B’nai Brith Canada has become too closely identified with the Conservative Party, to the point that it could endanger its status as a charitable institution. Sources close to the organization say that these complaints come from dissidents who are supporters of the Liberal Party.

LiblogsJason Cherniak is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and President Liblogs.ca.

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