Poli Sci prof faces continued anger over his participation in Teheran Holocaust meeting

Anger is growing at St. Francis Xavier University, in Nova Scotia, over a political science professor, Shiraz Dossa, who attended last week’s “conference” in Iran on the Holocaust — an event condemned worldwide as a platform for Holocaust deniers. More than 100 professors at St. Francis Xavier have signed a letter stating that while they uphold Dossa’s academic freedom “to espouse any views that he pleases,” they are “nevertheless profoundly embarrassed by his participation in the Holocaust-denial conference,” The Globe and Mail reported. Dossa is not responding to requests for interviews, but previously said that he is not a Holocaust denier and that he didn’t realize the conference was going to have many such people in attendance. Organizers of the letter — which does not call for any punishment of Dossa — said that they didn’t find that claim credible, given that Dossa is a political scientist and the conference and its aims were well publicized in advance.