More than a year ago, the Honorable Pierre Poilievre celebrated Israel’s 60th birthday, criticizing intimidation of Jewish students on Canadian campuses. Despite the Harper government’s strong support for Israel and the Jewish community, the stealth Jihad continues, abated by Lefties in Academia and the Media.
What used to be Canada’s Jewish University has become a hotbed of Islamist activism. Jewish students are regularly subjected to threats and physical abuse. Muslim students set up “checkpoints” to teach Jewish students what it’s like to live under occupation. York University is a passionate proponent of Israel Apartheid Week, an annual event on most Canadian campuses. For ten days participants spew anti-Israel propaganda, preach hate and incite violence against Jews. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding in North York, then a heavily Jewish borough of Toronto, the university will host yet another bash Israel hatefest with the Orwellian name Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace.
Is one Jewish state one too many? | Jerusalem Post
This month a consortium of Canadian universities and institutions will be sponsoring a conference at York University in Toronto that will effectively conclude that one Jewish state in the world is one too many.
The conference, innocuously named “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace,” will ostensibly debate whether a “one-state” or “two-state” solution is the best way to advance peace. But the conference’s symbol is a map of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with a zipper sewing up the seam lines between them. And a close look at the speakers and the abstracts of their intended speeches show that the overwhelming consensus will be that Israel should cease being a Jewish state and morph instead into a binational one.
It is a rich irony indeed that the conference is ostensibly proposing that Israel annex the West Bank and the Gaza Strip – a position that once might have been considered solely in the domain of the most right-wing Israelis. But as the program speeches make clear, the proposed solution is not to simply allow Israel to annex territory. Rather, it is to strip the Jewish state of its Law of Return (allowing Jews to immigrate) and uproot the country from its Jewish foundations.
York University’s program makes only a nominal attempt to stir genuine debate. The program is riddled with speakers who take as a given that Israel is an apartheid state that discriminates against Palestinians and that is fundamentally “unjust.” A number of the speakers are recognizable as organizers and advocates of the movement to boycott Israel. Indeed, the handful of notable professors who do not believe that Israel should cease to exist as a Jewish state stand out like vegetarians at a slaughterhouse.
