UT did the typical institutional thing. . . let 'em run wild until half the population was pissed off, then cracked down to piss off the other half.
This is called "public relations."
The universities in Alberta, allowed the protests until they cross the line from protest to encampment…& sent them all home. It’s not like it couldn’t be done.
Just not in TO. For once, the Men of Westernesse have a point.
UT screwed the pooch, then didn't even offer to snuggle.
Since October 7, many of those involved with Hearing Palestine have expressed support for Hamas’s brutal massacre and rape of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking of over 250 hostages. A number of prominent U of T faculty members, for example, signed
a statement released in October 2023 that attempted to compare the plight of Ukrainians
who had been invaded by Russia with the Palestinians
who invaded Israel.
As the new school year gets underway, a report released Thursday by
Canary Mission, an organization that documents antisemitic and anti-Israel activity on North American campuses, paints a grim picture of how
University of Toronto administrators sat back as their campus was overrun by terrorist supporters and outside agitators. In particular, the report lists dozens of U of T faculty, the very people responsible for educating future generations, who aided and abetted last spring’s illegal anti-Israel encampment.
Following in the footsteps of similar encampments at American universities, on May 2, a group breached a fence surrounding the
newly revitalized King’s College Circle and occupied the courtyard for a period of two months. When I
visited the site the following week, the fence was littered with posters excusing Hamas’s atrocities and calling for violent uprisings in Israel and here at home.
Canary Mission found that 153 professors, including 123 employed by U of T, publicly supported the encampment, 45 actively participated in it and six addressed the demonstrators.
Thugs hiding their identities behind keffiyehs and surplus medical masks strictly controlled access to the area, forcing those who wished to enter to agree with a series of statements designed to ensure that no Zionists….
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…or anyone advocating for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, for that matter — would be allowed to infect the encampment with their blasphemous ideas.
At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear who was behind the protest, or how many of those who had pitched tents on university property actually attended classes there. The Canary Mission report — titled, “University of Toronto’s Antisemitic Encampment & the University’s Shocking Complicity” — provides some unique insight in this regard.
According to its authors, this “was not primarily a grassroots student protest.” Instead, the so-called People’s Circle for Palestine was home to “a slew of outside agitators, including faculty, health care workers, climate justice groups, labour activists, trade unionists, gay rights activists, socialists/Marxists and activists with local chapters (of) the Palestine Youth Movement and Samidoun.”
In other words: the usual array of left-wing, anti-western agitators and the “useful idiots” of Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The rest at the below link:
A new report provides insight into who was behind the takeover of the University of Toronto campus
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It’s little wonder that the protest quickly devolved into Jew-hate. As Ontario Superior Court judge Markus Koehnen noted in
his ruling granting an injunction against the encampment, there were numerous documented instances of overtly antisemitic statements, including: “kike,” “We need another holocost” (sic), “Jews belong in the sea Palestine will be free,” “Death To the Jews, Hamas for Prime Minister,” “You dirty f–ing Jew. Go back to Europe” and “Itbach El Yahod” (“slaughter the Jews”).
