Avi Benlolo: Antisemitism in Canadian universities at least as bad as in UNRWA

The surge in antisemitism is a direct result of imported Palestinian propaganda aimed at delegitimizing, defaming, and demonizing Israel

Gaza Schools spreading Hamas’ antisemitism grabbed international headlines this week, coupled with breaking news revealing that the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) had staff involved in the Oct. 7 massacre of Jews. There’s nothing groundbreaking here. We’ve been urging the Trudeau government for years to cease Canada’s complicity in terror and antisemitism.

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But why focus on Gaza when we have similar issues in our own backyard? Canadian universities and now schools have long disseminated pro-Hamas antisemitism. This week at York University, the pro-Palestinian union released what it dubbed “a Toolkit on Teaching Palestine.”

A more fitting name for the 15-page pamphlet would have been “a toolkit for promoting antisemitism in the classroom.” Mislabelling the fight against the terrorist group Hamas as a “genocide” and referring to Jews indigenous to the land of Israel as “settler-colonial occupation,” the document aims to inject hatred against Jews into the classrooms at York University.

Why look as far as Gaza when it’s been imported into our universities? The pro-Hamas document even targets Hillel, an apolitical Jewish student organization, claiming that York University is complicit in Israel’s occupation due........

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