Feedback Form for the Final Report of the Anti-Semitism Working Group
On 8 December 2021, the Anti-Semitism Working Group released their Final Report, which can be found here: https://people.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Report-of-the-Anti-Semitism-Working-Group.pdf. The Report included eight Recommendations, and summarized versions are listed below.

Recommendation 1: "The University should situate its policies and programs concerning anti-Semitism within the broader framework of its equity, anti-racism, and cultural diversity initiatives and policies, taking it as seriously as it takes other forms of racism and exclusion [...]"

Recommendation 2: "The University should explicitly include addressing anti-Semitism within the mandate of the Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office (ARCDO) and all Equity offices, ensuring that it is included in all of the University’s anti-racism training, education, and outreach campaigns. To that end, ARCDO should appoint an Advisor focused on countering anti-Semitism, and Divisional Equity leads should be equipped to address issues of anti-Semitism as they arise."

Recommendation 3: "In situating anti-Semitism policies within its broader framework of equity, anti-racism, and cultural diversity initiatives, the University should focus on problems and issues specific to the distinctive context of the University as a place in which difficult and controversial questions are addressed. In so doing, it should not adopt any of the definitions of anti-Semitism that have recently been proposed."

Recommendation 4: "The University should regularly reiterate its commitment to academic freedom and inclusion, emphasizing in particular that academic freedom both permits people to say things that other people find troubling and, conversely, entails that individual members of the University are entitled to take whatever position they wish on controversial scientific, cultural, social, political religious and historical questions. In order to secure this type of academic freedom, participation in the life of the University is not conditional on taking any specific position at all on any question [...]"

Recommendation 5: "The University should issue periodic communications about its approach to controversial events, emphasizing that it will not enforce content-based restrictions on such events but that such events must be held in a respectful and open manner. [...] At the same time, the University must clarify that nobody can be compelled to participate in such events, and nobody should be stopped, accosted or harassed as they walk past a display or attend an event and told that they must respond to the claims made."

Recommendation 6: "The University should develop a framework for addressing various forms of social exclusion, harassment, micro-aggressions and bullying (including online instances of these) for all equity-deserving groups, and apply these consistently."

Recommendation 7: "The University and its divisions and academic units should apply its Policy on Scheduling of Classes and Examinations and Other Accommodations for Religious Observances consistently, both avoiding scheduling mandatory events on significant Jewish holidays, and permitting Jewish members of the University to participate fully in a range of accommodations [...]"

Recommendation 8: "The University should ensure that kosher food is available on all campuses, and that when Jewish members of the University request it they receive kosher food."
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