The Israel Advocacy Push to 'Reclaim' York University
Putting Current Events in Context
Freeman-Maloy, Dan
http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/bullet191.html
Date Written: 2009-03-03
Publisher: The Bullet
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX9483
York is a longstanding hub for "Israel advocacy" organizations (as they designate themselves). This reality expresses itself in various ways. At the grassroots level, far-right Zionist organizing has been common at York since at least the early 1980s, and seems to have even included direct recruitment for armed settler movements in the West Bank (and more commonly for the Israeli military itself). At the level of university fundraising, York has thoroughly integrated some of Canada's leading Israel advocacy figures into its main administrative bodies. And at the level of university governance, York has earned a reputation for deep association with the Israeli state and for heavy-handed regulation of campus politics in favor of Israel advocates.
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