Anti-Israel Encampments Have No Place on Canadian University Campuses

Rarely in the history of human conflict has there been a combatant less deserving of the sympathy of a civilized society than Hamas. The Palestinians and the Jews were effectively promised ultimate statehood by the British through their Foreign Minister Lord Balfour in 1917, when the area was still governed by Turkey. The Palestinians could have had a state any time they wished in the last 25 years if they had been prepared to acknowledge what the United Nations proclaimed in establishing the state of Israel in 1948—that it was a legitimate Jewish state. This was three years after the liberation of the Nazi death camps in which 6 million Jews, half the entire worldwide Jewish population, as well as 6 million non-Jews, perished in the most hideous mass murder in the history of the world.

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