Sinister agenda behind campus occupations

The major demand at many of the so-called “pro-palestinian” encampments on Canadian university campuses protesting the Israelhamas war is blatantly anti-semitic and it will be a disgrace if any university surrenders to it.

They’re calling for the demonization and delegitimization of Israel — the world’s only

Jewish state — through their support of the

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

BDS is aimed at making Israel an international pariah for defending itself against terrorism, imposing a standard of conduct on Israel expected of no other country on earth.

In 2016, the House of Commons condemned the BDS movement, which has been spreading across university campuses for years, along with the equally repugnant Israeli Apartheid Week campaign, which began at the University of Toronto.

The anti-bds motion by the Conservatives, which passed by a margin of 229 votes to 51, with support from most of the Liberal caucus, said “that, given Canada and Israel share a long history of friendship, as well as economic and diplomatic relations, the House rejects the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the

State of Israel, and calls upon the government to condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS movement, both here at home and abroad.”

In 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked the BDS campaign to the intimidation of Jewish university students across Canada, long before the current Israel-hamas war.

As Trudeau put it at the time: “Jewish students still feel unwelcome and uncomfortable on some of our college and university campuses because of Bds-related intimidation.”

In 2017, former PM Stephen Harper denounced BDS for “translating the old ideology of antisemitism into something acceptable to a new generation,” including “having Jewish students harassed” on university campuses.

“These are its realities” Harper said. “It is incumbent on all of us to be as vocal and as loud in our denunciations (of BDS) as we can possibly be.”

Flashing forward to 2024, make no mistake about what these ongoing occupations on university campuses are about.

They’re the latest manifestations of the world’s oldest hatred — the hatred of Jews — newly disguised as an organized and ongoing campaign to demonize Israel, the world’s only Jewish state.