The anti-Israel movement on campus is a co-ordinated effort to build support for Iran’s global terror network among western youth and those responsible for educating future generations

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The bodies of Israeli civilians who were slaughtered by Hamas were still warm when celebrations broke out on the streets of Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa on October 7. Almost immediately, National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an umbrella group that co-ordinates its chapters at universities throughout North America, sprung into action, issuing a toolkit that parroted Hamas propaganda and featured images of Palestinians standing atop an Israeli tank next to the Gazan border and an illustration of a hang glider, which the terrorists were using to invade Israel.

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This has always begged the question: did these groups have foreknowledge that a terror attack was imminent? Over eight months later, we’re starting to understand who has been organizing and funding the anti-Israel campaigns on university campuses. The picture being painted is not of a grassroots, student-led movement to support the Palestinian cause, but of an intentional, co-ordinated effort to build support for Iran’s global terror network among western youth and those responsible for educating future generations.

On June 15, the Post ran an illuminating feature on the history of the campus anti-Israel movement written by intrepid reporter Ari Blaff. As the piece........

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