Admin still hasn’t responded to the substance of the Oct. 2024 report, but finally stated their concerns around methodology. The authors say these claims have “no merit”
It took more than six months for York University’s administration to articulate its concerns with a report detailing anti-Palestinian racism at the Keele campus.
The Grind first contacted York in October 2024 with questions about the report, titled “Surveilled & Silenced: A Report on Palestine Solidarity at York University.”
At the time, spokesperson Yanni Dagonas said the administration had “concerns with the report’s methodology and disagrees with the report’s assertions.” But what those concerns were wasn’t specified.
On May 16 of this year, The Grind asked for an update. On May 22, Dagonas replied: “The University remains concerned that the report, based on the responses of 90 respondents on a campus of over 60,000, includes some overstatements and inaccuracies.”
He did not elaborate further.
The following day, on May 23, the administration made more details available to the report’s authors after two of them published an op-ed earlier that day on The Grind’s website, describing fruitless meetings on Jan. 6 and Apr. 10 of this year.
The report’s authors — faculty members who are also part of York’s Race Equity Caucus (REC) — say the admin’s vague concerns “have no merit.” (more...)
York University (Sort of) Responds to Anti-Palestinian Racism Report
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