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Jewish student group calls on TMU to discipline incoming interim dean over anti-Israel social posts
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Hillel Ontario is calling on Toronto Metropolitan University to investigate Maher El-Masri, a recently appointed interim associate dean, because the group says he has 'repeatedly engaged with and spread extreme, antisemitic, and deeply polarizing content on his social media account.'
Hillel Ontario, a Jewish student organization with a presence on nine campuses across the province, including TMU, sent an action alert last Thursday alongside several screenshots of social media posts from an account Hillel says belongs to El-Masri. The X account is under El-Masri's name and the biography describes the user as the 'son of (a) Nakba survivor,' referring to Palestinian refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The account states that the user is in Ontario, has a Palestinian flag for its profile picture and a background quote claiming 'humanity is failing the Palestine test.'
