As a new report on the University of Toronto encampment makes clear, woke ideology has allowed hatred to fester on campus

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A report released this week on the individuals behind last spring’s anti-Israel encampment at the University of Toronto highlights the fact that Canadian universities don’t just have an antisemitism problem — they have an ideology problem. If schools hope to stem the tide of hatred, they will have to get serious about rooting out professors who can’t separate their duties as educators from their politics.

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It’s no coincidence that a new report from Canary Mission, a group that maintains a database of people involved in antisemitic activity on campuses throughout Canada and the United States, notes that the encampment became a “home base” for “climate justice groups, labour activists, trade unionists, gay rights activists (and) socialists/Marxists.”

While there is no particular reason why such groups should be inherently against Israel — a state that has a strong labour movement, strict environmental regulations and affords more rights to LGBTQ individuals than any other country in the Middle East — the woke ideology of the modern left sees the world through a Marxist lens that views all conflicts as being between oppressors and the oppressed, colonizers and the colonized. And Israel has unfairly been branded as a colonialist oppressor state.

Yet these “outside........

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