Pro Israel students harassed in Canadian colleges.

yourjewishnews.com ^ | 2/28/11 | staff

[Nachum]

Pro-Israel students at Carleton University say they were harassed and intimidated by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) members after the group’s anti-Israel motion was shelved at a student council meeting last month. Emile Scheffel

“People were banging on the doors, screaming, calling us names… We had to wait until campus [security] sent more officers to make sure students could get safely from the council room out to the elevators,” said Emile Scheffel, 21, a fourth-year political science student who isn’t Jewish but is involved in the Israel Awareness Committee (IAC) at Carleton.

Scheffel said the incident began when the IAC learned the Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA) council would be considering a motion put forward by SAIA that would endorse the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

[Soothesayer9]

“yourjewishnews”??

You’re joking, right?

[Nachum]

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I discovered them first on Twitter. A strange but real thing. It seems to come out of Australia.

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Anyway, some of the items seem to be put out before the Jerusalem Post or Haaretz.

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