{"id":2113,"date":"2017-12-03T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2017-12-03T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:10:15","slug":"thought-control-forces-lose-one-professor-tony-hall-returns-to-u-of-lethbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"Thought Control Forces Lose One: Professor Tony Hall Returns to U of Lethbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thought Control Forces Lose One: Professor Tony Hall Returns to U of Lethbridge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

On November 22, we got good news. Professor Tony Hall of the University of Lethbridge was back in the classroom. Changes in provincial law — yes, Rachel Notley has managed to do one thing right — forced the university to cancel its suspension and\u00a0 BANNING from, campus of Professor Hall. He had criticized Zionism and insisted that there should be open debate on the holocaust. B’nai Brith, one of Canada’s most strident anti-free speech group, howled and Tony Hall, a tenured professor, was banned from campus last year and faces charges before the Alberta Human Rights Commission. CAFE wrote a number of letters supporting him and I know many of you did too.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Canadian Press (November 22, 2017) reported: “<\/span>A professor accused of espousing anti-Semitic views has been reinstated at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta.\u00a0The university confirmed in an e-mail Thursday that Anthony Hall is no longer suspended, but wouldn’t comment further. …\u00a0Hall, a tenured professor who has taught Native American studies, liberal education and globalization over his 26 years at the university, was suspended in October 2016 following comments he made in online articles and videos suggesting there was a Zionist connection to the 9\/11 attacks and that the events of the Holocaust should be up for debate.\u00a0He maintains the issue is academic freedom and that he should be allowed to promote his work as he sees fit.”<\/p>\n

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B’nai Brith threw a hissy fit in an extravagant press release: ” B\u2019nai Brith Canada is outraged that Professor Anthony Hall has returned to work at the University of Lethbridge, after he was suspended for\u00a0promoting antisemitism<\/a>\u00a0in October of 2016.\u00a0Hall\u2019s return was facilitated by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley\u2019s NDP Government, which passed\u00a0two<\/a>\u00a0bills<\/a>\u00a0in mid-2017 that strengthened the position of Hall\u2019s faculty association. In August, the Government even took the rare step of launching a\u00a0direct legal intervention<\/a>\u00a0that aided Hall, and eventually prompted a labour arbitrator to order him back to work in November. …<\/p>\n

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‘Premier Notley and her Government bear direct responsibility for placing a discredited conspiracy theorist back in a university classroom,’ said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B\u2019nai Brith Canada. \u201cWe repeatedly warned the Government of the likely outcome of its actions, but they sadly chose to ignore our warnings and expose Alberta university students to antisemitism and discrimination instead. … Hall came under fire for\u00a0teaching students<\/a>\u00a0that Israel was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and for\u00a0producing Holocaust denial videos<\/a>\u00a0with German-Canadian …\u00a0\u00a0Alfred Schaefer<\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Hall became the centre of a\u00a0national controversy<\/a>\u00a0after his Facebook friend posted an image calling to \u201cKILL ALL JEWS NOW!\u201d on his Facebook wall.” [The outrageous posting was actually posted on Professor Hall’s Facebook by an American Jewish hacker and, in no way, reflects the longtime schilar’s opinions.]<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Paul Fromm<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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