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Amy Hamm: White UBC prof claims to have 'absorbed anti-Palestinian racism'

A UBC panel discussion was used as an opportunity for self-congratulatory anti-Israel academics to pat themselves on the back

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Some anti-Israel academics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) recently demonstrated their poor understanding of the word “dialogue” by holding an event in which organizers explicitly banned debate or opposing views.

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Put on by the department of psychiatry’s equity, diversity and inclusion committee, the event was titled, “Taking collective liberatory action to promote health as a human right, and health equity for Palestinian people: An anti-oppressive dialogue within the health professions.”

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It was advertised as a collaboration between the university’s psychiatry and occupational therapy (OT) departments, and was funded by UBC’s Equity & Inclusion Office and the Strategic Equity and Anti-racism Enhancement Fund.

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The event was scheduled to occur both in person and online. However, two days prior, the event organizer, Tal Jarus, a professor of occupational health who described herself as a “queer white cis woman Jewish........

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