"Rosenberg felt that some of these messages crossed the line into bigotry. One note accused Israel of harvesting the organs of murdered Palestinians. Another, from a medical-school resident, warned of a sinister, unnamed group of people 'pulling the strings, who have orchestrated every war to ever happen, the ones who profit off of death and sickness.'"
"I tried to meet with the dean, and he said, 'If you feel you're being discriminated against, put it through the DEI program.' So I met with the head of the diversity, equity, and inclusion program within the faculty, and she refused to acknowledge that anti-Semitism was an issue."
"In his letter of resignation, he wrote, 'I have no faith in due process in a faculty that does not even acknowledge the existence or presence of antisemitism/Jew-hatred.'"
Ted Rosenberg left his teaching position at the University of British Columbia after 30 years, citing the university's tolerance of anti-Semitic sentiments. Following the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, he observed colleagues expressing extreme anti-Israel views, which he felt endangered the Jewish community. Despite his attempts to address these issues with university officials, he found no acknowledgment of anti-Semitism within the diversity and inclusion framework. His resignation letter expressed a lack of faith in the university's commitment to addressing discrimination against Jews.
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