Cabinet Minister: University and Health Care

cabinet minister: Before the University of Haifa knew it, the place was roiled by controversy, according to Rabble. Twenty-three members of the university's faculty had signed a letter of protest. Consider the embarrassing 2012 case of the Israeli university that came up with a scheme to give an honorary degree to an unsavoury right-wing foreign politician in appreciation of his revered leadership. Media half a world away in North America wrote uncomfortable stories about how the university planned to honour a senior cabinet minister in a right-wing government whose immigration policies were denying basic health care to refugees from persecution in their home country. The offensive politician, of course, was a guy from Canada named Jason Kenney. The protesters didn't manage to keep the right-wing foreign politician from getting the honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, but I'm sure it made the University of Haifa think twice about giving meaningless sheepskins to his ilk ever again. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.