KINSELLA: U of T and U of Windsor capitulate to Jew-hating occupiers

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Rats, feces, drugs and used needles.

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That’s the proud legacy of the “pro-Palestinian” youngsters who occupied the main entrance to McGill University for the past months.

Said McGill: “The encampment [was] the site of profound health and safety risks that continued to grow in scope and severity … due to the presence of human waste, a rat infestation, discarded syringes, a large amount of rotting food and garbage, and other potentially dangerous and unsanitary conditions within the site, it was necessary to use heavy machinery to remove parts of the camp for the safety of all involved … For the same reasons, it will be necessary to excavate and replace a layer of contaminated soil on the site.”

That’s not all, of course.

The McGill tenti-fada was characterized by drug overdoses, vandalism, mini-riots, assaults, and regular attacks on Jewish students. When this writer was there, just a few days ago, signs were up telling Jews (“Zionists”) to stay away. It was an ongoing, malodorous, fetid hate fest.

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And that’s truly how bad it became: the university has had to excavate it, to remove contaminated soil.

Contaminated, too, is a word that can be applied to what happened at the University of Windsor, albeit in a different context. There, the illegal occupation hadn’t gone on as long as McGill’s.

As law student Sydney Greenspoon wrote in the Times of Israel, the University of Windsor is now “an unsafe place” for Jews. Greenspoon wrote that she has been targeted with anti-Semitic comments by students and professors – including Holocaust denial.

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Wrote Greenspoon: “It is a campus that fosters hate and allows antisemitism to flourish, forcing the few Jewish students to hide any sign of our Jewish identity, in fear for our physical and psychological safety.”

The two deals that University of Windsor administrators concocted with Israel-and-Jew-hating occupiers reflects that. They are shameful, self-abasing capitulations that outraged every Jewish advocacy group in Canada.

In exchange for the end of the “Liberation Zone” at the university, administrators gave total amnesty to the occupiers. They agreed to “establish anti-Palestinian racism training,” which will be mandatory for their executives and governors. They agreed to offer grants for study of “anti-Arab racism [and] anti-Palestinian racism.” They agreed to participate in anti-Semitic “boycott, divest and sanction” activity against Israel.

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They agreed to prioritize students from Gaza when handing out bursaries. They agreed to guarantee housing for these students, presumably over other students. They agreed to hire a “Palestinian Student Support Advisor.” And the University of Windsor agreed to review all of their investments and procurements through a decidedly pro-Palestinian lens.

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The University of Toronto, meanwhile, was much more clandestine. After an Ontario Superior Court judge ordered the trespassers out, or else, the trespassers packed up and quickly left. Days later, we all learned why: the university secretly pledged to give the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas cabal total amnesty for what happened there. Which, to cite a short list, included filmed Nazi salutes, violent assaults, and projecting the Hamas logo on the side of U of T buildings.

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The University of Windsor and Toronto surrenders were so complete, so total, they would make the Hitler-appeasing Neville Chamberlain blush. Compared to Toronto and Windsor’s university leaders, Chamberlain had the heart of a lion.

The way to deal with lawlessness is to apply the law, like McGill finally did. And the way to deal with anti-Semitism is to get serious about it, like New York University did this week.

After a lawsuit was filed against NYU, the university hurriedly agreed to accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.

It agreed to take every anti-Semitic incident seriously, and treat them as they treat all other bigoted acts on campus. They agreed to create a coordinator to police anti-Semitism and other forms of hate. And they agreed to pay damages for attacks on NYU Jewish students.

This week, then, McGill and NYU were vindicated. Windsor and U of T?

Humiliated.

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