Nico Slobinsky, vice president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, thanked the college for showing accountability and dismissing Knight.
“Knight failed in her responsibility as an instructor to create a safe learning environment. By celebrating the largest murder of Jews since the Holocaust, Knight caused immense trauma for Langara College’s Jewish students, staff, and faculty,” he wrote in a statement posted to X.
“There should be no room for hate on any campus.”
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