Mideast Tensions Rile Toronto Campus; Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestinian Students Clash at York University

Forward, March, 2003 by Gordon, Sheldon

Gordon, Sheldon Forward 03-21-2003 York University, a suburban Toronto campus with Canada's largest concentration of Jewish students, is reeling from the "Concordia virus" -- the spread of tensions between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students that previously infected Montreal's Concordia University. Last week, Toronto police briefly arrested, but did not charge, a Jewish student for allegedly uttering a death threat after Palestinian students displayed an inflammatory banner.

The week before, they arrested two anti-war protesters for allegedly assaulting two Jewish student activists. The flare-up comes as mounting student dissent against the looming American war with Iraq has added to campus tensions fueled by the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Despite the...

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