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The former international head of Doctors Without Borders is speaking out after New York University canceled her presentation, saying some of her slides could be viewed as anti-governmental" and antisemitic" because they mentioned the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid and deaths of humanitarian workers in Israel's war on Gaza. Dr. Joanne Liu, a Canadian pediatric emergency medicine physician, was scheduled to speak at NYU, her alma mater, on March 19 and had been invited almost a year ago to discuss the challenges of humanitarian crises. Censoring speech is killing the essence of what the university is about," says Liu. I truly and strongly believe that universities are the temple of knowledge."