A Jewish law professor has lost her bid to get a court to quash Toronto Metropolitan University’s decision not to discipline students who signed an open letter “condoning, if not outrightly encouraging the Hamas terror attacks on October 7 and denying Israel’s right to exist.”
Sarah Morgenthau, who complained those who signed the letter had breached TMU’s student code of conduct, took her case to Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice after an external review conducted by a retired judge determined the opposite and that the signees should not be disciplined.
“The applicant, who is Jewish, saw the open letter as antisemitic and condoning violence against Jews and Israelis,” said a recent decision from the three-judge panel.
It notes that the open letter, from “a group calling itself the Abo