Langara College instructor Natalie Knight publicly praised the Hamas massacre of 1,200 civilians as an ‘amazing, brilliant offensive’
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An openly pro-terror academic is claiming victory after she was reinstated to her job at a Vancouver college with no disciplinary consequences whatsoever.
In November, Natalie Knight was suspended from her job as an English instructor and Indigenous curriculum consultant at Langara College after video circulated of her openly praising the Hamas-orchestrated massacre of more than 1,200 Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.
This week, Knight announced that Langara has put her back on staff with no disciplinary actions.
Within two days, Langara had placed Knight on leave, saying that the matter was “under investigation” that her views “do not represent those of the College.”
The statement ended with the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” – an explicit call for the complete destruction of Israel.
The front steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery would also be the scene of another widely circulated statement of overt support for Hamas violence. On Oct. 9, Harsha Walia — a former director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association — said “how beautiful is the spirit to get free that Palestinians literally learned how to fly on hang gliders.” The comment was an apparent reference to Hamas’s tactic of using paragliders to ambush Israel’s Nova music festival, where more than 300 festival-goers were murdered.
Even when this veered into open celebration of the deliberate mass-murder of civilians, it very rarely yielded professional consequences.
Maile remains on staff as director of Ziibiing Lab, the University of Toronto’s official Indigenous Politics Collaboratory.
Heidi Matthews — a “law of war” researcher at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, would respond to the Oct. 7 attacks with a since-deleted social media post decrying the “obfuscation going on about what the right of resistance looks like in brutally asymmetrical contexts.”
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