September 9th, 2002:
They came to shut down free speech. They violently rioted, as explained in this widely-circulated eyewitness account. They didn’t want Benjamin Netanyahu to give this speech – or, indeed, to speak at all – and so they gathered to riot, cause mayhem, and rough up people trying to attend.
The fallout made international headlines, led to the blame game almost immediately, and caused a ripple effect that is still being felt.
September 9th, 2003:
They’d have us believe that everything has changed. There’s a new CSU executive, a big orientation party for incoming and returning students, and a lecture series on conflict resolution.
But ultimately, behind the scenes, very little has changed despite surface appearances. Hillel, which had its privileges suspended by last year’s CSU is still fighting to get them restored. The so-called “activists” are still defending the rioting. Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited back to Montreal but not to Concordia. Antisemitism still gets printed in the Link as “legitimate political criticism”. Indeed, there is still much work to be done.
One year later, some baby steps in the right direction have been taken. What happens from here, we’ll just have to wait and see.
A more historical, less hysterical view of the events is available at:
thelink.concordia.ca/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/0215221
so funny
http://thelink.concordia.ca/letters/03/09/09/032232.shtml
“On our side, we sang and danced and celebrated being free and Jewish.”
Right. You sang “Sandniggers” and “All Arabs are terrorists and deserve to die” and danced to your own hatred. I was there too, trying to get people not to react to the racist name-calling–its become an over-used strategy–and I mostly succeeded. I was there too, but of course, my eye-witness testimony doesn’t count cuz I’m a sandnigger/sandnigger lover.
Hanthala, kindly take your slander and lies elsewhere. Everyone here knows you’re just talking out of your a$$.
whatever segacs, just gos tick your head back in the sand