Howard Levitt: University campuses an unsurprising maelstrom in response to Israel-Hamas war

financialpost.com:

The Israel-Hamas war has ignited a maelstrom of legal activity in workplaces and, for today’s purposes, on university campuses.

There are now class-action lawsuits pending against at least three Canadian universities alleging that, for many years, a culture of anti-Semitism has made their campus environments intolerable for Jewish students, most egregiously since Oct. 7. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) protests and radical leftist student councils passing motions and taking other overt actions against their Jewish members created the tinder which has now ignited.

This is not surprising. The woke movement originated in universities and professors have been intently indoctrinating their students for decades. One reason why Jordan Peterson resigned as a prof at the University of Toronto was his recognition that any student listing him as their advisor would be consigned to academic purgatory, devoid of any prospect of an appointment.

Recent incidents tied to the conflict in Gaza include students who support Israel being physically attacked or barricaded in buildings for their own protection, while others have avoided wearing Jewish symbols, fearful for their physical safety. Jewish students no longer feel at home in many Canadian universities, but the phenomenon is not restricted to Canada. One study — just commissioned jointly by the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel International — found that nearly three out of every four U.S. Jewish students has experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism since the start of the school year. More surprisingly, over one in three non-Jewish students reported having witnessed or experienced an incident of anti-Semitism since Oct. 7 (some because they were mistaken for being Jewish).

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