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Tyler Evans-Tokaryk, director of the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre at UTM, said he asked for the centre’s name to be removed from promotional material for the lecture.

There's a war against the Jewish people, essentially. It's been raging on university campuses for 18 years

The centre provides some funding for the Association of Palestinian Students at UTM, and many other clubs, as part of its effort to promote academic skill development. But it did not support or endorse this particular event, and refused permission to use its name.

Organizers of the lecture did not respond to messages through the event website and to their email address hosted by the school’s student union. The club’s executive is listed on the student union website as June and Jane Doe.

The poster describes Finkelstein as “a political scientist who specializes in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Holocaust.”

In 2008, he was deported and banned from Israel for 10 years after being interrogated about his contact with Hezbollah, an Iranian-funded Lebanese militia that Canada considers a terrorist group.

His expressions of solidarity for Hezbollah during the 2006 war in Lebanon were a key factor when Chicago’s DePaul University denied him tenure in 2007. He had compared the group to the Second World War resistance against Nazis, and in a video clip from a protest that was made notorious by Fox News personality Sean Hannity, he declared “We are all Hezbollah.” He would later say he did so deliberately, not on the spur of the moment.

There was a bitter public feud with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz over his book The Case for Israel, and although the school denied outside pressure played a role in its consideration of tenure, Finkelstein did not get it, and later resigned. The following year he was still looking for academic work, but as the Chronicle of Higher Education put it, “no one in academe will give him another job — not even as an adjunct.”