Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests
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Why does she keep calling me Jesus? I ain't Mexican. And it's pronounced "Hay-SOOS."
University of Waterloo files $1.5 million lawsuit against anti-Israel encampment — National Post
The school is seeking $1,500,000 in damages for trespass, damage to property, intimidation and ejectment
Every one of those islamo-nazis who isn't from Canada should have their degrees denied, be immediately deported, banned from ever entering Canada again and put on the No-Fly list. Fuck 'em all.
University of Waterloo files $1.5 million lawsuit against anti-Israel encampment — National Post
The school is seeking $1,500,000 in damages for trespass, damage to property, intimidation and ejectmentapple.news
With hours to go before a deadline for student protesters to clear out a tent encampment at the heart of the University of Toronto campus, demonstrators debated whether they would leave voluntarily or continue to occupy the space.
A few protesters folded up blue tarps, some carried out trash, and there were signs some tents were coming down in the wake of a judge’s decision Tuesday siding with U of T administrators and granting an injunction that would allow the school to clear the site. The judge’s ruling also authorized police to arrest and remove anyone believed to be contravening the order after 6 p.m. Wednesday.
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Sara Rasikh, a graduate student and encampment organizer, said a decision has not yet been made about whether or not demonstrators will continue to occupy the circle, saying the conversation is ongoing.
“We would like for everything to ideally be consensus based,” she said. “If we’re not able to reach consensus, then whatever the majority decides, we have all aligned ourselves on the fact that people will abide by it and exit or not exit based on what the majority decides.”
In the meantime, she said students were taking their valuables off site, including items they planned to donate to those living in encampments for the unhoused.
“We know that the police is violent and we want to make sure that these items are not harmed or ruined by the police when they do intend to raid us,” she said Wednesday morning.
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A few protesters folded up blue tarps, some carried out trash, and there were signs some tents were coming down in the wake of a judge’s decision Tuesday siding with U of T administrators and granting an injunction that would allow the school to clear the site. The judge’s ruling also authorized police to arrest and remove anyone believed to be contravening the order after 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Chris Selley: Anti-Israel U of T encampers finally learn a lesson in the law — National Post
If so, why on earth did it take this long?
“We would like for everything to ideally be consensus based,” she said. “If we’re not able to reach consensus, then whatever the majority decides, we have all aligned ourselves on the fact that people will abide by it and exit or not exit based on what the majority decides.”
In the meantime, she said students were taking their valuables off site, including items they planned to donate to those living in encampments for the unhoused.
“We know that the police is violent and we want to make sure that these items are not harmed or ruined by the police when they do intend to raid us,” she said Wednesday morning.
University of Toronto protesters debate whether to leave pro-Palestinian encampment ahead of court-imposed deadline — The Globe and Mail
Demonstrators had until 6 p.m. Wednesday to clear out the tent encampment occupying King’s College Circle
So if 40% want to stay and 60% want to go, do those 60% stop being part of the remaining 40% that becomes the majority?
It seems like they are trying to make everyone's minds up. It's pretty simple. If you don't want to stay, don't. If you want to don't complain when you are arrested.
With hours to go before a deadline for student protesters to clear out a tent encampment at the heart of the University of Toronto campus, demonstrators debated whether they would leave voluntarily or continue to occupy the space.
A few protesters folded up blue tarps, some carried out trash, and there were signs some tents were coming down in the wake of a judge’s decision Tuesday siding with U of T administrators and granting an injunction that would allow the school to clear the site. The judge’s ruling also authorized police to arrest and remove anyone believed to be contravening the order after 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Sara Rasikh, a graduate student and encampment organizer, said a decision has not yet been made about whether or not demonstrators will continue to occupy the circle, saying the conversation is ongoing.Chris Selley: Anti-Israel U of T encampers finally learn a lesson in the law — National Post
If so, why on earth did it take this long?
“We would like for everything to ideally be consensus based,” she said. “If we’re not able to reach consensus, then whatever the majority decides, we have all aligned ourselves on the fact that people will abide by it and exit or not exit based on what the majority decides.”
In the meantime, she said students were taking their valuables off site, including items they planned to donate to those living in encampments for the unhoused.
“We know that the police is violent and we want to make sure that these items are not harmed or ruined by the police when they do intend to raid us,” she said Wednesday morning.
University of Toronto protesters debate whether to leave pro-Palestinian encampment ahead of court-imposed deadline — The Globe and Mail
Demonstrators had until 6 p.m. Wednesday to clear out the tent encampment occupying King’s College Circle
But it takes effort and diligence to keep up your credit score, save up for a damage deposit/ first and last and hit transit to find a home and job.
The Montreal police began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment at Victoria Square early Friday morning.
The Montreal police referred reporters to the city of Montreal when asked why the encampment is being dismantled.
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is scheduled to hold a news conference at 11:15 a.m. to explain the reasoning behind the dismantlement.
In a short statement issued beforehand, Plante said the encampment posed “major safety issues” for those on site as well as people who work nearby, in addition to contravening a municipal bylaw.
“The right to demonstrate is a fundamental right protected by the charters, but this right cannot interfere with the right to safety and free movement in the public space,” Plante said.
“A public place cannot be permanently and statically occupied, regardless of the cause,” she added. “Public space must remain public.”
Protesters erected the encampment in Victoria Square on June 22. Organizers said this week roughly 50 people have been staying there since. In an interview from the encampment site Friday morning, a spokesperson for one of the groups behind the protest denounced the dismantling by police, which came without warning in the early hours of the morning.
Friday’s police action is not targeting the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been on the McGill University campus since April.
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The Montreal police referred reporters to the city of Montreal when asked why the encampment is being dismantled.
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is scheduled to hold a news conference at 11:15 a.m. to explain the reasoning behind the dismantlement.
In a short statement issued beforehand, Plante said the encampment posed “major safety issues” for those on site as well as people who work nearby, in addition to contravening a municipal bylaw.
“The right to demonstrate is a fundamental right protected by the charters, but this right cannot interfere with the right to safety and free movement in the public space,” Plante said.
“A public place cannot be permanently and statically occupied, regardless of the cause,” she added. “Public space must remain public.”
Protesters erected the encampment in Victoria Square on June 22. Organizers said this week roughly 50 people have been staying there since. In an interview from the encampment site Friday morning, a spokesperson for one of the groups behind the protest denounced the dismantling by police, which came without warning in the early hours of the morning.
Friday’s police action is not targeting the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been on the McGill University campus since April.
Plante and McGill spar as Victoria Square encampment dismantled — Montreal Gazette
McGill should revise its strategy for ending the encampment on its campus, the mayor said after protesters were removed from Victoria Square.
Officers started their operation around 5 a.m.
When the SPVM arrived, there were 15 people on the scene. The evacuation appeared to take place peacefully and calmly.
“I think that there has been no negotiation on the part of the of the Quebec governments,” said Voix Juives Indépendantes spokesperson Niall Clapham Ricardo. “So, this morning to see that they believe that by using force and violent techniques (?) such as dismantling at the camp, it’s going to make people just magically go away is a lot of wishful thinking.”
Montreal police (SPVM), alongside blue-collar workers began dismantling the pro-Palestinian encampment at Square Victoria in downtown Montreal early Friday morning with their peaceful and calm use of force and violent techniques?
The protesting campers demanded that the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec end all relations with Israeli institutions that they believe are complicit in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
They also asked Quebec to close its office in Israel.
“It seems like a very, very bizarre way to deal about these things with the SPVM to intervene pretty swiftly from only June 22nd to July 5th. We haven’t seen that in any of the other camps and so maybe, this camp really bothered them,” said Ricardo.
Perhaps a lesson has been learned between how Alberta dealt with its campers immediately as opposed to letting squatters rights kick in after months? Another pro-Palestinian encampment, established on the McGill University campus at the end of April is still currently in place.
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Deep Saini is the president and vice-chancellor of McGill University.
In a press release published Friday, he said that he expects the city of Montreal and the SPVM to remain consistent in their approach, by acting swiftly to remove the encampment on campus as well. “The encampment further presents major safety risks including issues related to hygiene, security, and fire safety. Just yesterday, fire department officials attempted once again to conduct a safety inspection on the site. And once again (?), they were refused access by those guarding the entrance, in contravention of municipal by-laws.”
He further explained how the encampment has generated intimidation and harassment on campus.
“The encampment on McGill’s campus is situated on private property. Its ongoing presence excludes members of the University community from access – save for those permitted entry by those who guard the site – and deprives us of use and enjoyment of the site.” Shouldn’t have dragged your feet months ago I guess…
When the SPVM arrived, there were 15 people on the scene. The evacuation appeared to take place peacefully and calmly.
“I think that there has been no negotiation on the part of the of the Quebec governments,” said Voix Juives Indépendantes spokesperson Niall Clapham Ricardo. “So, this morning to see that they believe that by using force and violent techniques (?) such as dismantling at the camp, it’s going to make people just magically go away is a lot of wishful thinking.”
Montreal police (SPVM), alongside blue-collar workers began dismantling the pro-Palestinian encampment at Square Victoria in downtown Montreal early Friday morning with their peaceful and calm use of force and violent techniques?
The protesting campers demanded that the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec end all relations with Israeli institutions that they believe are complicit in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
They also asked Quebec to close its office in Israel.
“It seems like a very, very bizarre way to deal about these things with the SPVM to intervene pretty swiftly from only June 22nd to July 5th. We haven’t seen that in any of the other camps and so maybe, this camp really bothered them,” said Ricardo.
Perhaps a lesson has been learned between how Alberta dealt with its campers immediately as opposed to letting squatters rights kick in after months? Another pro-Palestinian encampment, established on the McGill University campus at the end of April is still currently in place.
Montreal police move in to dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment at Square Victoria — CityNews Montreal
Montreal police (SPVM), alongside blue-collar workers, began dismantling the pro-Palestinian encampment at Square Victoria in downtown Montreal early Friday morning.
In a press release published Friday, he said that he expects the city of Montreal and the SPVM to remain consistent in their approach, by acting swiftly to remove the encampment on campus as well. “The encampment further presents major safety risks including issues related to hygiene, security, and fire safety. Just yesterday, fire department officials attempted once again to conduct a safety inspection on the site. And once again (?), they were refused access by those guarding the entrance, in contravention of municipal by-laws.”
He further explained how the encampment has generated intimidation and harassment on campus.
“The encampment on McGill’s campus is situated on private property. Its ongoing presence excludes members of the University community from access – save for those permitted entry by those who guard the site – and deprives us of use and enjoyment of the site.” Shouldn’t have dragged your feet months ago I guess…
The situation at the U of T escalated with the encampment set up by pro-Hamas sympathizers who demanded the university divest from any investments related to Israel and sever ties with the only Jewish state.
These sympathizers, while hiding behind free speech, audaciously called for the school to cut ties with Israeli academics and universities. Worse, they barred pro-Zionist students and faculty from entering “their” encampment (on university property) and lined its fence with violence-promoting slogans targeting Israel.
The final straw, however, came this week, when Judge Markus Koehnen of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed the Jewish community’s concerns over antisemitism. Many interlocutors quickly applauded the injunction to dismantle the encampment, failing to understand the damage. The verdict was a win for the University of Toronto’s property rights but a terrible, unprecedented legal loss for the Jewish community.
In his judgment, Judge Koehnen admitted that, “There can be no doubt that some of the speech on the exterior of the encampment rises to the level of hate speech.” Among many examples, he cited comments like, “We need another holocost (sic),” “Death To the Jews, Hamas for Prime Minister” and “you dirty fu–ing Jew. Go back to Europe.’ ”
Despite the encampment fostering this hate speech, the judge took a more sympathetic tone towards those occupying the encampment, stating that, “None of the named respondents and none of the encampment occupants have been associated with any of these statements” because accountability in expressing ones opinions freely while respecting the rights and freedoms of others, etc…
Judge Koehnen claimed that the “automatic conclusion that those phrases are antisemitic is not justified.” He appeared to dismiss key antisemitic indicators, including “a photograph of the university president (who is Jewish), which was described as depicting the president as a devil with the caption ‘blood on your hands’ in bold letters beneath,” the “inverted triangle” which Hamas uses to mark its targets, along with the phrases “intifada,” “Free Palestine by any means necessary” and “From the river to the sea,” which is often condemned as a call for the genocide of the Jewish people, so meh…
(This almost feels like it should be in the Amira Elghawaby thread but oh well)
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If all it took to disperse this crowd (the U of T campers) was a court injunction, it becomes all the crazier that it took this long.
(“We refuse to give the Toronto Police Service any opportunity to brutalize us,” encampment organizer Mohammed Yassin told reporters earlier in the afternoon, explaining their capitulation. “We are leaving on our own terms to protect our community from the violence the University of Toronto is clearly eager to unleash upon us.” You almost have to admire the chutzpah.)
Perhaps 500 former encampers and their hangers-on, they had occupied the intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets, having marched for 90 minutes west along College Street, north along St. George, and then east along Bloor. They blocked traffic and transit alike, with police clearing the road for them as they went — while being denounced as racists, naturally — and they vowed there was plenty more of it to come. Good times.
”This is not the end,” a protest leader bellowed through a microphone. “Let us be loud. Let us be disruptive. Let us be the nightmare that is in the mind of each one of these (university) administrators who refuse to (divest from Israel).”
If the protesters were willing to obey the court’s ruling vis-à-vis King’s College Circle, they were just as eager to insist upon their right — affirmed both by the court and by the university — to protest during daylight hours without setting up camp.
”Whose f–king campus? Our f–king campus!” the crowd roared.
”We yell, we scream, we slept on your front lawn,” they chanted, “and still you won’t divest, what the f–k is going on?”
Well, where to start? Grown ups behave differently generally, and temper tantrums don’t gain respect from pretty much anyone, as they usually result in a ‘time out’ so the children can think about their behaviour in light of their actions. Are you children needing a ‘time out’ or adults behaving like children that need a ‘time out?’
(There is a difference and that would be in the consequences of their actions, and accepting responsibility for them)
It remains to be seen just how much resolve there is in the crowd that marched out of campus and into the real world on Wednesday. Many of the older, whiter participants — of which there were plenty — will have European vacations and cottages to attend to. Some of the students no doubt have summer jobs to perform, or exasperated parents insisting they find one.
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These sympathizers, while hiding behind free speech, audaciously called for the school to cut ties with Israeli academics and universities. Worse, they barred pro-Zionist students and faculty from entering “their” encampment (on university property) and lined its fence with violence-promoting slogans targeting Israel.
The final straw, however, came this week, when Judge Markus Koehnen of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed the Jewish community’s concerns over antisemitism. Many interlocutors quickly applauded the injunction to dismantle the encampment, failing to understand the damage. The verdict was a win for the University of Toronto’s property rights but a terrible, unprecedented legal loss for the Jewish community.
In his judgment, Judge Koehnen admitted that, “There can be no doubt that some of the speech on the exterior of the encampment rises to the level of hate speech.” Among many examples, he cited comments like, “We need another holocost (sic),” “Death To the Jews, Hamas for Prime Minister” and “you dirty fu–ing Jew. Go back to Europe.’ ”
Despite the encampment fostering this hate speech, the judge took a more sympathetic tone towards those occupying the encampment, stating that, “None of the named respondents and none of the encampment occupants have been associated with any of these statements” because accountability in expressing ones opinions freely while respecting the rights and freedoms of others, etc…
Judge Koehnen claimed that the “automatic conclusion that those phrases are antisemitic is not justified.” He appeared to dismiss key antisemitic indicators, including “a photograph of the university president (who is Jewish), which was described as depicting the president as a devil with the caption ‘blood on your hands’ in bold letters beneath,” the “inverted triangle” which Hamas uses to mark its targets, along with the phrases “intifada,” “Free Palestine by any means necessary” and “From the river to the sea,” which is often condemned as a call for the genocide of the Jewish people, so meh…
(This almost feels like it should be in the Amira Elghawaby thread but oh well)
Opinion: Court's dismissal of antisemitism at U of T encampment a slap in the face — National Post
The verdict was a win for the University of Toronto’s property rights but a terrible, unprecedented legal loss for Canadian Jews
(“We refuse to give the Toronto Police Service any opportunity to brutalize us,” encampment organizer Mohammed Yassin told reporters earlier in the afternoon, explaining their capitulation. “We are leaving on our own terms to protect our community from the violence the University of Toronto is clearly eager to unleash upon us.” You almost have to admire the chutzpah.)
Perhaps 500 former encampers and their hangers-on, they had occupied the intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets, having marched for 90 minutes west along College Street, north along St. George, and then east along Bloor. They blocked traffic and transit alike, with police clearing the road for them as they went — while being denounced as racists, naturally — and they vowed there was plenty more of it to come. Good times.
”This is not the end,” a protest leader bellowed through a microphone. “Let us be loud. Let us be disruptive. Let us be the nightmare that is in the mind of each one of these (university) administrators who refuse to (divest from Israel).”
If the protesters were willing to obey the court’s ruling vis-à-vis King’s College Circle, they were just as eager to insist upon their right — affirmed both by the court and by the university — to protest during daylight hours without setting up camp.
”Whose f–king campus? Our f–king campus!” the crowd roared.
”We yell, we scream, we slept on your front lawn,” they chanted, “and still you won’t divest, what the f–k is going on?”
Well, where to start? Grown ups behave differently generally, and temper tantrums don’t gain respect from pretty much anyone, as they usually result in a ‘time out’ so the children can think about their behaviour in light of their actions. Are you children needing a ‘time out’ or adults behaving like children that need a ‘time out?’
(There is a difference and that would be in the consequences of their actions, and accepting responsibility for them)
It remains to be seen just how much resolve there is in the crowd that marched out of campus and into the real world on Wednesday. Many of the older, whiter participants — of which there were plenty — will have European vacations and cottages to attend to. Some of the students no doubt have summer jobs to perform, or exasperated parents insisting they find one.
Chris Selley: What's coming after the anti-Israel U of T encampment looks even worse — National Post
'This is not the end,' a protest leader bellowed. 'Let us be loud. Let us be disruptive. Let us be the nightmare that is in the mind of each one of these (university) administrators'
The illegal occupation was over because it was, in fact, illegal. My former law partner, Justice Markus Koehnen, made all of the usual sounds about freedom of speech and the Charter of Rights in his 98-page Ontario Superior Court ruling in support of the injunction sought by the university.
But in the end, Koehnen merely told us what we already knew: private property is, you know, private. And if the University of Toronto wanted the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas kidlets off their private property, so be it. Done.
On Wednesday morning, suburban moms and dads — some wearing kefiyyehs like they saw Madonna wear one time — pulled their shiny $80,000 SUVs up to the curb at the University of Toronto to collect Junior and wheel them back to multi-million-dollar white neighbourhoods with nice views of the lake. The months-long illegal occupation of U of T was finally over.
So the Gen Z Gaza gang chose discretion over valour. They fled. But behind them they left little hints of how truly awful they all are.
Last week, before Koehnen gave the Infant-fada the hook, this writer took a stroll around the perimeter of the U of T “encampment,” a documentary camera crew in tow. Everywhere we looked, there were signs and symbols saying things that seemed benign — but weren’t.
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The inverted red triangle. Some of the aspiring Gazans may believe the triangle has something to do with the Palestinian flag or simply a wedge of watermelon. But it doesn’t. Online, the inverted red triangle indicates support for Hamas, full stop.
Elsewhere, the red triangle means this: “We will kill you.” After the atrocities of Oct. 7, the red triangle started to show up in glossy Hamas propaganda videos, superimposed on footage of Israeli soldiers or citizens. There, the inverted red triangle means “this is a target.” It was, by far, the most-seen symbol at the U of T illegal occupation.
When a can of red spray paint wasn’t handy, the U of T pro-Hamas kids — always masked — would touch the tips of their thumbs together and then touch the tips of their index fingers, pointed downward. They’d they’d wiggle that at passersby. Why? It again means you are a target, we want you dead. The Hamas glee club were doing that, still, hours before the police were ready to move in. The police saw it and did nothing.
Intifada. You would see this word on a lot on signs, professionally rendered or otherwise, at U of T. It’s an Arabic word, roughly meaning shaking off or sort-of rebellion. For Jews, however, it has a very specific meaning.
The second Palestinian Intifada, 20 years ago, was notable for stabbings, shootings, car bombs and the murder of more than 1,000 Jews. The second Intifada is also remembered for the kidnapping, torture, lynching, disemboweling and murder of two Israeli reservists who made a wrong turn and entered the West Bank.
On that occasion, one of their murderers — after calling one of the reservists’ wives on his cell phone to say, “we are slaughtering your husband” — leaned out a police station window with his hands covered in blood (more on that shortly). The crowd below erupted in cheers, and then the Israelis’ bodies were flung onto the street for further desecration. An Italian camera crew captured it all on film.
So, that’s what “intifada” means to the intended victims, which are Jews. The U of T tenti-fada may claim not to know that, because they are the first university students in history who have never tried out this internet thing called “Google.” But Jews, as always the main targets, know the truth.
The red hand. The red hand symbol wasn’t as widespread at the illegal U of T occupation, but it could be seen in quite a few places. As noted above, the red hand originated on the dark day in October 2000 when two Israeli reservists were slaughtered.
The red hand has shown up in other contexts — in Ireland’s troubled north, or to represent missing and murdered Indigenous women — but, at U of T, it didn’t refer to any of those things. Obviously. There, it was a celebration of murder.
SJP: This one was harder to find, but it revealed itself on some signs and banners at U of T over the past few months. It refers to Students for Justice in Palestine.
SJP has been around for two decades, and were founded in Berkeley (of course they were). They have hundreds of chapters on campuses across Canada, the United States and elsewhere.
According to a lawsuit just filed against SJP and others in Virginia by survivors of Hamas’ Oct. 7 Nova music festival butchery, SJP is the public relations arm of Hamas in North America. SJP explicitly and unashamedly support a murderous cult of Islamic madmen. And they were extremely active at U of T, supplying rhetorical and material support for weeks.
There were other words and images seen over the many weeks that U of T was illegally occupied by spoiled children who despise Jews and civilization. A popular one wasn’t obscure at all — “genocide.”
Genocide is a bit rich, of course, because the population growth of Palestinians has for years exceeded that of Israelis by about 35%. And because even the UN, which hates Israel almost as much as Hamas, has started to back away from claiming that a genocide is underway in Gaza. If that’s “genocide,” in other words, it’s a pretty ineffective genocide.
And so on and so on. If you ever took a stroll past the U of T encampment — which was the equivalent of a city block, surrounded by reality — you would’ve seen some of those words and symbols. And now you know what they mean.
The occupants of the illegal occupation knew what they meant, too. So does the people they hate the most. The ones they want to wipe off the face of the Earth. The Jews.
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But in the end, Koehnen merely told us what we already knew: private property is, you know, private. And if the University of Toronto wanted the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas kidlets off their private property, so be it. Done.
On Wednesday morning, suburban moms and dads — some wearing kefiyyehs like they saw Madonna wear one time — pulled their shiny $80,000 SUVs up to the curb at the University of Toronto to collect Junior and wheel them back to multi-million-dollar white neighbourhoods with nice views of the lake. The months-long illegal occupation of U of T was finally over.
So the Gen Z Gaza gang chose discretion over valour. They fled. But behind them they left little hints of how truly awful they all are.
Last week, before Koehnen gave the Infant-fada the hook, this writer took a stroll around the perimeter of the U of T “encampment,” a documentary camera crew in tow. Everywhere we looked, there were signs and symbols saying things that seemed benign — but weren’t.
KINSELLA: Stench remains after U of T protesters leave encampment — Toronto Sun
The tents are gone. But the stench isn’t. On Wednesday morning, suburban moms and dads — some wearing kefiyyehs like they saw Madonna wear one time — pulled their shiny $80,000 SUVs up to the curb at the University of Toronto to collect Junior and wheel them back to multi-million-dollar white...
Elsewhere, the red triangle means this: “We will kill you.” After the atrocities of Oct. 7, the red triangle started to show up in glossy Hamas propaganda videos, superimposed on footage of Israeli soldiers or citizens. There, the inverted red triangle means “this is a target.” It was, by far, the most-seen symbol at the U of T illegal occupation.
When a can of red spray paint wasn’t handy, the U of T pro-Hamas kids — always masked — would touch the tips of their thumbs together and then touch the tips of their index fingers, pointed downward. They’d they’d wiggle that at passersby. Why? It again means you are a target, we want you dead. The Hamas glee club were doing that, still, hours before the police were ready to move in. The police saw it and did nothing.
Intifada. You would see this word on a lot on signs, professionally rendered or otherwise, at U of T. It’s an Arabic word, roughly meaning shaking off or sort-of rebellion. For Jews, however, it has a very specific meaning.
The second Palestinian Intifada, 20 years ago, was notable for stabbings, shootings, car bombs and the murder of more than 1,000 Jews. The second Intifada is also remembered for the kidnapping, torture, lynching, disemboweling and murder of two Israeli reservists who made a wrong turn and entered the West Bank.
On that occasion, one of their murderers — after calling one of the reservists’ wives on his cell phone to say, “we are slaughtering your husband” — leaned out a police station window with his hands covered in blood (more on that shortly). The crowd below erupted in cheers, and then the Israelis’ bodies were flung onto the street for further desecration. An Italian camera crew captured it all on film.
So, that’s what “intifada” means to the intended victims, which are Jews. The U of T tenti-fada may claim not to know that, because they are the first university students in history who have never tried out this internet thing called “Google.” But Jews, as always the main targets, know the truth.
The red hand. The red hand symbol wasn’t as widespread at the illegal U of T occupation, but it could be seen in quite a few places. As noted above, the red hand originated on the dark day in October 2000 when two Israeli reservists were slaughtered.
The red hand has shown up in other contexts — in Ireland’s troubled north, or to represent missing and murdered Indigenous women — but, at U of T, it didn’t refer to any of those things. Obviously. There, it was a celebration of murder.
SJP: This one was harder to find, but it revealed itself on some signs and banners at U of T over the past few months. It refers to Students for Justice in Palestine.
SJP has been around for two decades, and were founded in Berkeley (of course they were). They have hundreds of chapters on campuses across Canada, the United States and elsewhere.
According to a lawsuit just filed against SJP and others in Virginia by survivors of Hamas’ Oct. 7 Nova music festival butchery, SJP is the public relations arm of Hamas in North America. SJP explicitly and unashamedly support a murderous cult of Islamic madmen. And they were extremely active at U of T, supplying rhetorical and material support for weeks.
There were other words and images seen over the many weeks that U of T was illegally occupied by spoiled children who despise Jews and civilization. A popular one wasn’t obscure at all — “genocide.”
Genocide is a bit rich, of course, because the population growth of Palestinians has for years exceeded that of Israelis by about 35%. And because even the UN, which hates Israel almost as much as Hamas, has started to back away from claiming that a genocide is underway in Gaza. If that’s “genocide,” in other words, it’s a pretty ineffective genocide.
And so on and so on. If you ever took a stroll past the U of T encampment — which was the equivalent of a city block, surrounded by reality — you would’ve seen some of those words and symbols. And now you know what they mean.
The occupants of the illegal occupation knew what they meant, too. So does the people they hate the most. The ones they want to wipe off the face of the Earth. The Jews.
EDITORIAL: The encampments were trespassing — Toronto Sun
The lesson university administrators should have learned from the proliferation of so-called pro-Palestinian encampments on their campuses over the past few months is simple. It is to remove them immediately on the grounds that they are trespassing and not allow them to become mini-cities for...
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Is University of Toronto privately owned?
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.
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