The world famous Canadian doctor says that New York University has canceled her talk about being “anti -government”

A world -famous Canadian doctor says her lecture at New York University (New York University) was canceled for being “anti -government.”

doctor. Joan LeoAssociate Professor of McGill, Université de Montréal and an emergency medicine doctor who previously worked as head of Médecins Sans Frontières (doctors without borders), she told Global News that she was amazed after her presentation in her presentation in New York It was suddenly canceled last week.

She said that her lecture will discuss humanitarian aid at a time of crises, as well as the challenges faced by the aid workers in Gaza and other war areas.

Its width would also deal with the recent discounts in external aid, Especially the American Agency for International DevelopmentBy President Trumpadministration.

Liu said in an interview on Friday. She added that New York University, her mother, also said that her lecture had risked as anti -Semitic.

Liu’s offer was appointed to go on March 19. The last night, as soon as it had already arrived in New York, Liu, the head of the school’s education department, told it that it was canceled.

She said that the vice president expressed his concerns about some of its segments, which were martyred in the relief worker data rules that showed the number of human losses in 2024 in Gaza, as well as The last huge discounts to UsaidForeign Civil Aid Agency and Development. Liu said she was told that both topics could risk that it is hostile and hostile to the government.

It offered amendments, but New York University was elected to completely cancel the event.

Global News has arrived at New York University for comment and has not heard again.

This comes amid the recent Trump administration’s recent grant discounts to American universities, and Liu says she believes that New York University was afraid to suffer from the same fate. She added that it reflects the climate of fear that American universities are currently experiencing.

The Trump administration recently withdrew 400 million dollars from the Federal Federal financing of Colombia, after it claimed that the Foundation had failed to protect students from “anti -Semitic harassment”. The university has since funded the university after it agreed to a set of demands, including the status of the Middle East Studies Department under academic censorship.

“I have been invited nearly a year ago to give a scientific lecture at the Department of Emergency Medicine at New York University,” Leo wrote in an opinion article published on Thursday in the Le Devoir newspaper in Montreal.

“Elite universities at the presidential cuts intersection,” Leo. “I have sympathy for those who feel insecure on campus. I have a lot of sympathy for university directors who are trying to maintain their financing, and eventually their jobs, research and education.”

She added that academic freedom is currently in a weak country in the United States.

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The Iranian Canadian political science professor at McGill University, Arash Abzadeh, told Global that he canceled three upcoming academic trips to the states.

He explained that despite his annoyance with Trump’s recent counter -speech towards Canadian sovereignty, he is often concerned about the safety of foreigners on American soil.

quote An accident earlier in March when a French scientist Entry has been refused To the country after immigration officials at Houston Airport searched his phone and found text messages criticizing the president, which they said could “be considered terrorism.”

“Who wants to put himself in a situation can arbitrarily detain him?” Abzadeh said, he talks about his reservation to enter the United States

Daniel Kutra, President of the University of Montreal, as well as a lawyer and academic specializing in civil and comparative law, said the world to the current political climate worries him.

He said that the university has put a note to complete it, which warns society of people to be more vigilant if they entered the United States, and reminded its students and employees to announce their flights to the university.

He said: “(There is completely) a distance of what we have seen in the past decades in our very close interactions with many research organizations and great universities there.”

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