1. The Academic Boycott Debate
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
   
2. Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   While most academics would agree that a university should be a place where critical debate is fostered, what is academic freedom when the freedom to attend classes without being bombed isn't even assured? Academic freedom falters it seems when it comes to Palestine, whether in the Middle East or in North America. Not only is there no realizable academic freedom for Palestinians, but also, even in North America, students and faculty raising critical viewpoints about Israel find themselves muffled, accused of anti-Semitism, threatened with disciplinary action, or, in the case of former Depaul University professor, Norman Finkelstein, out of a job entirely.
3. Acadia University
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
   Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
   
6. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
   
7. The Israel Advocacy Push to “Reclaim” York University
   Putting Current Events in Context
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   York is a longstanding hub for “Israel advocacy” organizations (as they designate themselves). This reality expresses itself in various ways. At the grassroots level, far-right Zionist organizing has been common at York since at least the early 1980s, and seems to have even included direct recruitment for armed settler movements in the West Bank (and more commonly for the Israeli military itself). At the level of university fundraising, York has thoroughly integrated some of Canada’s leading Israel advocacy figures into its main administrative bodies. And at the level of university governance, York has earned a reputation for deep association with the Israeli state and for heavy-handed regulation of campus politics in favor of Israel advocates.
8. Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Published: 2009
   Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
9. The University of Toronto
   A History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2002
   

Experts on Academic Freedom in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)