The event happened just three weeks after UBC released then-president Santa Ono’s anti-racism task force report.
The director of the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice arranged space last May for a Vancouver lecture by a federally funded activist with a history of antisemitic comments.
At the May 14 event, Marouf thanked SCARP for “in-kind contributions,” called Israel’s government “the Zionist apartheid regime,” referred to “the colony of Canada" and accused the media of upholding white supremacy and genocide.Last August, a prepared statement from the university denounced antisemitism, denied SCARP was a sponsor and said an unnamed faculty member helped book the venue.
Angeles explained that the organizers “approached me for a favour.” Specifically, a social work professor at Carleton University, whose name she omitted, sought a venue at a “reasonable price as their budget is limited.” She offered the West Mall Annex. The next evening, UBC Applied Science marketing director Wendy McHardy circulated an “approved statement” that was later provided to the reporter, distancing UBC from the event and “the abhorrent views that have been expressed by one of its speakers.”
“While I wouldn’t say this publicly, in all honesty, I’m not sure it would have made any difference in this case, when you look at the nature of the event, including folks from Indigenous radio etc., but there’s never any harm in reviewing policies,” Campbell wrote. “I certainly have no intention of speaking to any reporters.”
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