Avi Benlolo: University of Windsor shamefully caves to anti-Israel protesters

The agreement it signed reads like a script from a twisted movie where truth is evil, wrong is right and oppressors are venerated

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It’s all quite surreal, perhaps even dystopian. This week’s pact between the University of Windsor and the enigmatic Windsor Liberation Zone Team reads like the manifesto of an imagined society embroiled in a grand struggle against some great injustice. The university, apparently so cowed by the encampment, somehow capitulated to the demands of a small, rag-tag group of students whose sole purpose seems to be to demonize, defame and destabilize a follow democracy — the State of Israel.

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On Thursday morning, world-famous film producer Robert Lantos sent me a cryptic email from his set in Europe, saying, “Windsor has fallen. Hamas rules. Reading this proclamation is surreal. It took me back to 1930s Hungary. The first Jewish laws were directed at universities. It’s why my mother was not allowed to study medicine. It’s what my film ‘Sunshine’ is about.”

The agreement feels like a script from a movie set in a twisted, upside-down world where truth is evil, wrong is right and radicals and oppressors are venerated. Where was the “Liberation Zone” during the Arab Spring, when Syrian........

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