Empty-headed McGill University "Equity Officer" censors pro-Israel group while sanctioning "apartheid" lie

Barbara Kay wrote in the National Post of a gross abuse of authority by an anti-Israel bigot embedded in the "Equity Committee" of McGill University's radical Student Society, which has the ability to impose its will on other student groups:

Perhaps it was disgruntlement over IAW’s lacklustre performance in 2012 that motivated an aggrieved student (supposedly anonymous, but some clues point to a well-known IAW activist) to formally complain to McGill’s student-society Equity Committee about the mildly satiric title of a recently held fundraising event for McGill Students for Israel (MSFI) — “Israel: A Party.”

In fact, an Equity Committee Officer already had directed MSFI to change the title, threatening, by email, “possible consequences such as suspension of club status” if they refused. Her rationale was that even such gentle mockery trivialized the word “apartheid” and the experiences of many of the world’s oppressed people, citing as well the indignation of “various colleagues and personal friends” regarding Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

h/t Blazing Cat Fur

McGill Prof Gil Troy discusses the fanaticism seeking to destroy Israel

Israel is a tiny country, about the size of Rhode Island. In population its size is less than ten percent of each of regional neighbours Egypt, Turkey or Iran.

It is a stable westernized liberal democracy, the only country that can be so described in the middle east, and is the subject of a compulsive focus and vilification in some quarters.

Honest Reporting Canada presented an intimate talk last night by McGill University History Professor Gil Troy about the distortions and obsession that Israel stimulates in the media and on campuses.

Gil Troy

One of the points that emerged is how university campuses are like a looking glass world, where everything is, in many ways, backwards. This is particularly the case as far as liberal arts are concerned. Karl Marx, along with his followers and ideologies that caused millions of deaths are almost universally reviled , but on western campuses, he is still idolized by many university professors and students with an aggrandized sense of entitlement and whose concept of reality shows little comprehension of the world outside the ivory tower.

Troy suggested that the best approach is being reasonable and truthful in the face of lies, lsuch as the absurd propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel through the false label of "apartheid."

In fact Marx has a lot to do with Israel's demonization in the west. It's no coincidence that many, if not most of the academics seeking to delegitimize Israel are Marxists who see Israel as a symbol of western capitalism. That, said Troy, is one of the indications of the anti-Semitism that has creeped into and often drives the anti-Israel movement.

Israel, a beacon of democracy and hope amid a region where its neighbours have abysmal human rights records, has the truth as its defense. But in a maelstrom of lies and distortions by bigots and Islamists and their useful campus idiots, the truth sometimes must struggle to be heard.

Honest Reporting Canada has done much to make sure that lies about Israel in the media are exposed. They were most recently instrumental in bringing public attention to the vicious anti-Israel hate speech of fanatical Quebec TV host and small-town political boss Stephane Gendron, who pronounced, "Israel doesn't deserve to exist," and whose televised diatribes have combined anti-Semitism with his twisted hatred of the Jewish state.

It's lies and those who promote them that are a blight we would be better off without. The challenge of having the fortitude and courage to stand up to hateful propagandists unfortunately is one that will remain ongoing for some time.

McGill Student Communists and Buffoons end "occupation" of Administrative Offices

From CTV News: MONTREAL — A few dozen McGill students continued a sit-in Wednesday at the James Administration building over a disagreement with administrators over funding for certain student bodies, notably the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) and CKUT Radio.

The students camped overnight outside the sixth floor office of McGill Deputy Provost Morton Mendelson as well as on the first floor.

Some complained that they had been refused entry to the bathroom facilities and were not allowed to return once they had left.

The students are upset that brass has declined to recognize the results of a student referendum which showed that about two-thirds of students favour the continuation of QPIRG.

The administrators responded by saying that the question was unclear. The two sides have met but failed to come to a resolution.

QPIRG provides resources to students with projects that have a, "mandate of social justice and environmental activism."

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Just to be clear, The Communist, terrorist fan-club QPIRG which in its sister group at Concordia recently celebrated the works of a German terrorist responsible for the murders of a number of innocent civilians, was upset that McGill was allowing it students to opt out of compulsory payments to it from their student activitiy fees.

That means they got the money that student's didn't necessarily want to give them, and they were upset that the University was making it just a bit easier for students to not have to fork money over to subsidize their fanatical, communist BS.

That the students who are in QPIRG can even get to enroll in McGill is a comment on the declining standards of Canadian universities.

Just to get a sense of the stupidity and sense of entitlement these half-wits possess, get a load of this comment from student Sami Fink, who  was among a group of students gathered outside the administration building, chanting support for the sit-in, who, according to CBC News, said she is upset with the tact the university is taking:

“Other administrations have been known to send pizza and support student democracy, but McGill is taking a hard-line stance.."

That's right, she's upset that McGill Administration isn't buying pizza for the demonstrators illegally occupying their offices.  This country is in deep trouble if that vapid expression of thought is any indication of the generation of graduates our schools are producing.


Video: Nicolas Quiazua / Le Délit

Researchers at McGill create Super Soldier Ants

Great. Maybe next they can create mosquitoes that can suck a pint of blood in one go.

But seriously, it's an important discovery that provides more clues about evolution.

Now please don't invent super termites or sabre-toothed squirrels.

Violent, stupid McGill students demand apology for being called violent

This is priceless - a group of violent McGill University protesters who intimidated and abused female staff at McGill by occupying their office and confining them are demanding an apology for McGill's Provost because he referred to them as exactly what they are.

If it were I, this would by my apology to them.