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Conrad Black: Anti-Israel Encampments Have No Place on Canadian University Campuses

Conrad Black: Anti-Israel Encampments Have No Place on Canadian University Campuses
A pro-Palestinian activist tapes signs to the fencing around an encampment set up on McGill University's campus in Montreal on April 29, 2024. The Canadian Press/Christinne Muschi
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Always the helpless and reflexive copycat of any remotely faddish trend of protest in the United States, Canadian campuses, weeks late, are scrambling to demonstrate their moral outrage at Israel’s temerity in taking countermeasures to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of over a thousand of its citizens, many the most vulnerable—women and children and the elderly—in a premeditated and barbarous violation of an agreed-upon ceasefire.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.