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#CANADA:Unhinged denouncing of Israel and Canada at the University of Toronto. Conrad Black, National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-insidious-bds-campaign-trying-to-undermine-our-universities

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

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#CANADA:Unhinged denouncing of Israel and Canada at the University of Toronto. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-insidious-bds-campaign-trying-to-undermine-our-universities
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.5

And I welcome my colleague Conrad Black,

0:14.5

distinguished biographer writing at the National Post

0:16.8

about the University of Toronto

0:18.3

and strange statements made

0:20.8

about how Canada came to be a

0:22.6

successful nation in the 21st century. Also strange statements made about Israel, a successful

0:29.6

nation under assault in the 21st century. Conrad, I can't say it any more effectively than that

0:36.8

because there's some

0:37.6

incoherence here, but as I understand from your column, at the University of Toronto,

0:42.5

which is a distinguished education enterprise, there is a document that you were given

0:50.7

access to by a well-informed recipient,

0:55.4

libeling the state of Israel and also libeling the state of Canada.

1:00.3

How do those two things go together in the mind of this protest?

1:03.6

Good evening, too.

1:05.3

Yeah, good evening to you, John.

1:06.4

Well, it's that strangely, just rabidly, I hate to say this, but insanely fanatical hostility to Israel and accompanying that, this ferocious view that the, effectively, the white Caucasian civilization

1:37.1

has been evil.

1:40.4

It hasn't been constructive.

1:42.2

It may have done some constructive things, but essentially it is a force for evil.

1:48.0

And the point of the sword of the evil of the evil of Western society and Western political leadership is the treatment of the so-called Palestinians by Israel.

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