Anti-Israel Activists On Campus Make Ignorance a Virtue

If you’re a close follower of the issues Jewish students face on campus, you could be forgiven for feeling a bit of fatigue after a number of shocking anti-Semitic incidents occurred on college campuses in Canada last month. At the University of Toronto, controversy ensued after the graduate student union initially refused to support a campaign by the local Hillel to expand kosher food options. And York University made headlines when pro-Palestinian students violently interrupted an event featuring speeches by IDF reservists. The most recent event took place at McGill University in Montreal: When several student leaders accepted an invitation to travel to Israel and the Palestinian Territories this winter on a trip organized by Hillel Montreal, McGill’s student government passed a motion condemning Jordyn Wright, a Jewish student leader, for breaching the conflict-of-interest policy, but said absolutely nothing about Andrew Chase, a fellow student leader who is not Jewish, who also planned to go on the trip.