>Anyone know what really happened in Montreal?
>
>
>The War on Campus
>by Daniel Pipes
>New York Post
>September 17, 2002
>http://www.danielpipes.org/article/465
>
>Last week, two prominent Middle Easterners traveled to two North American
>campuses to deliver speeches mainly about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Both
>met protests. One succeeded in giving the speech; the other did not. Therein
>hangs a tale.
>
>On Monday, former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to
>Concordia University in Montreal to explain why "there is no alternative to
>winning this war [on terrorism] without delay." But he never spoke at
>Concordia - indeed, he never made it onto the campus - because a thousand
>anti-Israel demonstrators staged a mini-riot with the intent of preventing
>him from speaking; "Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to Montreal. Let's make it
>clear he's not welcome," read their signs.
>
>The anti-Israel forces physically assaulted the would-be audience. A female
>professor of religion at Concordia recounted how some of them "aimed their
>punches at my breasts."
Wow. Those anti-Zionists will stop at nothing! I wonder if Pipes has spoken to his analyst about this identification of Israel and The Breast?
I just spoke with Hamid Dabashi, who's going to be on my show this evening. He said Pipes started this whole thing with a column he wrote over the summer in the NY Post.
Doug