A world -renowned doctor says his lecture at New York University (NYU) was canceled for being 'anti -government'.
Dr. GOANMcGill and University D Montreal, an associate professor and a pediatric emergency medical physician who was previously serving as the head of Medicine Sons Frontiers (Borders without doctors), told global news that he was proud of his schedule. Nyu He was canceled suddenly last week.
He said his lecture is going to discuss humanitarian aid as well as the challenges facing aid workers in Gaza and other war areas in the time of crisis.
His offer was also going to deal with recent deductions, foreign aid, Especially USAIDBy President TrumpAdministration.
“(I was told) told Global in an interview on Friday,” (I was told) that discussing USAID deductions could be considered as an anti -government statement. ” He added that his alma meter, NYU, also said that his lecture was in danger that he was considered an anti -meskat.
Liu's presentation was scheduled for March 19. Earlier night, once she had already arrived in New York, Liu was told by the Deputy Chair of the Education School of Education that she had been canceled.
He said the deputy chair expressed concern about some of his slides, citing a database of relief workers, which showed the number of human casualties in Gaza in 2024, and Recently deducted to UsadOne civilian foreign aid and development relief agency. Liu said he was told that both topics could risk being considered anti -government and anti -government respectively.
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He offered to make adjustments, but NYU chose to completely cancel the event.
World news arrived to comment on NYU and did not hear it.
This has come to the fore in the recent decline in the recent grant of the Trump administration to US universities, and Liu says NYU is afraid to suffer from the same destiny. He added that this reflects the climate of fear of American universities.
The Trump administration recently pulled $ 400 million to Columbia University in federal funds, after which it was alleged that the organization had failed to protect students from “anti -harassment”. The university then restored its financial support after agreed to a set of demands, including keeping the Middle East study department under academic supervision.
“Almost a year ago, I was invited to give scientific lectures in the NYU's emergency medicine, Liu wrote in a opinion published in Montreal French -language newspaper Le Divyar on Thursday. I featured me in the Pediatric Emergency Medicine in the 1990s,”
Liu added, “The elite universities are in the cross of presidential deductions.” I sympathize with people who feel unsafe on campus. And I am so sympathetic to the university organizers who are trying to preserve their funds and eventually their jobs, their research and their education. “
He added that the educational independence is currently in a weak state in the United States.
The latest in a deteriorating relationship with the United States
It is the latest thing among the Canadian people that they are avoiding all the trips south of the border.
Arash Abizada, a political science professor at McGill University, told Global that he canceled the three incoming educational visits to the states.
He explained that when he was worried about Trump's recent opposition to Canada's sovereignty, he was mostly worried about the protection of foreigners on the US soil.
He referred to Earlier in March when a French scientist Entry was refused At a Houston airport, immigration officials found their phone and criticized the president, finding text messages, which he said, “Terrorism can be considered.”
“Who wants to keep himself in a position where he can be detained in a dissatisfaction?” Abizada said talking about his discount to enter the United States
Daniel Jotra, a Rector of the University's D Montreal, as well as a lawyer and educational who specializes in civil and comparative law, told the current political climate globally.
He said that the university has presented a memo to its entire community that warns people that if they enter the United States, they will be extra vigilant, and remind their students and staff to announce their journey to the university.
“(To a great extent), there is some distance from which we have experienced very closely with many research organizations and great universities there over the past decades,” he said.
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