Let this sink in:
No one ever kept someone who could fully exonerate them from criminal activity from testifying. Ever.
Debunking the ‘Jews-Only Roads’ Charge
“Your people waged a ruthless war against Israel. You lost the war, and, rather than be grateful that Israel did not fight a war of attrition as the United States did in Dresden, Germany and Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan and annihilated you completely, you have the temerity to proclaim you have a right to reclaim rightfully won land.
We must, therefore, strike from our vocabulary the term “Occupied Territory.” The Jordanian annexation of Judea and Samaria was regarded as illegal. The British had relinquished its claim to the land when the British Mandate left the region. The Arab forces claimed vehemently that the 1949 Armistice line did not have any legal significance. By that reasoning the land did not belong to anyone. Since the land did not belong to Transjordan, we must not use the term “Occupied Territory,” and under the precepts of international law it is nonsensical nomenclature. If “Disputed Land” makes better sense, then that conceptually inane term was laid to rest when Israel legally won a war and conquered territory that was taken from it.”
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Campus Anti-Zionism Seen Through the Eyes of a Syrian Refugee
I WAS ABOUT TO FIND OUT THAT CANADIAN STUDENTS AT A TOP SCHOOL LIKE YORK UNIVERSITY COULD HOLD PROTESTS JUST AS SERIOUS AND MENACING AS THOSE I HAD SEEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Canada was the one truly safe place I had ever lived where a Syrian might meet Israelis without suffering any consequences.
Poor, naïve me.
As I soon learned, York University in Toronto has for some time earned its reputation as a place that is hostile to people holding Zionist and pro-Israeli political standings. A mural currently exhibited at the York University Student Centre garnered headlines for its depiction of a Palestinian with his back turned, face covered in a kafiya, a map of “Palestine” completely erasing Israel, clutching two rocks behind his back while gazing at a construction site. One does not have to be Jewish or Israeli to consider it a menacing piece.
Such sentiments may not be unique to York. Earlier in the week at another of the city’s major academic institutions, the University of Toronto, an official in the Graduate Student Union rejected a request from Hillel to support bringing more kosher food onto the campus, on the grounds that it would be taken as pro-Israel and might run contrary to the “will of the membership,” who had voted to support the BDS movement against Israel.
A refugee from a war-torn country is used to seeing all parts of their homeland become a battleground. Streets. Apartments. Football fields. Even the historic Krak de Chaveliers castle near my native Homs in Syria was fought over by opposing sides in the Syrian civil war. After landing in Canada, however, I hadn’t expected my new country’s universities to be arenas for ideological mobs to shout down and denounce their opponents.
"On or around November 30, Jewish communities around the world will be holding events to remember the mass exodus of Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran. Almost a million people were displaced in the past 50 years, leaving billions of dollars’ worth of property behind."
"Not only have Arab governments never compensated Jews for their stolen homes and businesses, they are waging a pernicious campaign to claim communal property and Jewish heritage as their national patrimony."
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