Dr. Roger Gaudry, rector of Universite de Montreal in Montreal, and newly appointed president of the Council of the United Nations University in Tokyo, has told the JTA that he is “totally opposed to the discriminatory policy adopted by UNESCO with regard to Israel,” What is going on there, Gaudry said, “is incredible and I shall express my protest and disapproval when meeting with Mr. (Annadou Mahtar) M’Bow, the new Director General of UNESCO, in Tokyo, by the end of the month.” Gaudry will preside at the first meeting of the World University Council in Tokyo beginning Jan. 20.
In a related development, a group of 30 prominent Canadian intellectuals have put their signatures on a protest against the exclusion of Israel from UNESCO’s activities. Among the signatories are two Nobel Prize winners: Gerhardt Herzbert, chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, and Claude Bissel, past president of the University of Toronto and the discoverer of Insulin. Other signatories are Henry Hicks, chancellor of Dalhousie University, Leo Jaffe, vice-principal of McGill University, and Jean-Guy Pilon, Andre Belleau, Fernand Ouellette, and Jean-Paul Audet who is the director of Judaic Studies at the University of Montreal.
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