The Speakers Action Group

Campuses hostile to Jewish students, panel says
By SHERI SHEFA, Staff Reporter, Canadian Jewish News

Thursday, 05 February 2009

TORONTO — The Jewish community needs to take universities back from anti-Israel student groups who have created an atmosphere on campus that is hostile to Jewish students and supporters of Israel, says Sean Egan, a University of Toronto medical professor.

Egan, along with Lawrence Hart, a McMaster University medical professor, and Orna Hollander, executive director of the Canadian Israel Advocacy Centre, led a Jan. 21 discussion at the law offices of Cassels Brock & Blackwell titled Defending Freedom on Campus.

It was sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Civil Rights Association and the Speakers Action Group to address concerns about anti-Israel groups that have been organizing “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) events every year since 2004. Read more