Maybe I ought to take back my praise of York University, in light of this: (via Damian Penny)
A protest at York University over a possible war in Iraq ended in violence yesterday when opposing groups crossed paths.
Miriam Levin, a Jewish student, said she was intimidated and roughed up by the protesters. And a group that had a U.S. flag at its booth said members were attacked by demonstrators who marched through the university.
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Later, the protesters entered classes for a few minutes to talk to students, said Joel Duff of the Canadian Federation of Students.
It was when the line passed a booth set up by the Young Zionist Partnership and the Canadian Alliance that a confrontation occurred. Students who ran the booth claim protesters shouted insults before charging them.
“Hundreds of people basically swarmed three people,” said Paul Cooper, president of the Zionist group. He said only a few people were confrontational, but everyone else “watched and did nothing to stop it.”
The anti-war student movement keeps showing its true colours again and again: antisemitic, anti-American, and all too willing to resort to mob violence.
After what happened at Concordia when Netanyahu tried to speak, there was an international outpouring of support for the Jewish community here. I have a feeling that after yesterday, the students at York could use some of the same.
These protesters oppose war but they have no problem with committing violence themselves.
Whereas the Zionists support war against others but can’t fathom having violence committed against themselves.
This is another of your mythologized “riots”, is it?
And here’s the proof, from the same article: “Three protesters were arrested, but released without being charged.”
The horror.