Reflections on Israel-Palestine, teaching and the suspension of Arij Al Khafagi
Over the past decade at the U of M, I’ve taught a course called “Sometimes Pus, Sometimes Poetry: Cinema and Israel/Palestine” several times. The first…
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Palestine Teach-In: In our own words
We write as faculty who are part of the Palestine Teach-In Collective. We seek to address bad-faith criticisms and attempts to cancel our event, “Palestine…
U of M prof’s concerns regarding nursing student suspension
Dear Netha Dyck, Michael Benarroch and Eleanor Coopsammy, I am writing as a U of M professor in Jewish studies and Jewish history to protest…
UMSU quiet on Palestine because it bungles everything
UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians,…
Suspended nursing student seeks appeal
University of Manitoba Nursing Students’ Association president Arij Al Khafagi is currently appealing her suspension. Al Khafagi was suspended after university officials deemed social media…
Exam schedule posted just shy of exam period
University of Manitoba students are up in arms over the delay in the fall term exam schedule. Second-year biochemistry student Benzeta Adun said, “as an…
Faculty of engineering hosts Polytech shooting memorial
The Price faculty of engineering is hosting a memorial this Wednesday for those lost in the 1989 École Polytechnique shooting. The event is a collaboration…
Nursing student suspended
Fourth-year nursing student Arij Al Khafagi is facing academic discipline following what lobbyists say were social media posts “expressing her opposition to Israel’s extreme violence…
Eckhardt-Gramatté music library’s name under review
The legacy of Ferdinand Eckhardt, a former director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, has come under scrutiny after an article published in the Walrus on…
Babysitter directory launched to help parents on campus
A new babysitter directory has been created with the aim of addressing the needs of U of M students and faculty who must bring children…