A group of teachers says British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to expedite a complaint of antisemitism against their union as more allegations surface.
Vancouver labour lawyer Paul Pulver, who represents BC Teachers Against Antisemitism, filed the complaint this year over what he called the “erasure of Jewish and Zionist voices and opinions” within the BC Teachers’ Federation and at members’ workplaces.
The group claims the union has “ostracized” the teachers either because they’re Jewish or they hold “currently unpopular views” about Jews, Israel or the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
Its initial complaint filed over the summer cites more than two dozen examples of alleged antisemitism either caused or enabled by the teachers’ union.
The BC Teachers’ Federation was not immediately available for comment.
Pulver says in a statement issued Friday that another teacher is joining the complaint after attending a professional development day in October where she …