> pms wrote:
>
> >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