Quoted: Jihad on campus: inside and outside of classrooms, Gil Troy says

By Joanne Hill, Jewish Tribune, 3-1-11 There are “two different jihads” taking place on campus today, said Prof. Gil Troy: “the campus jihad,” which takes place outside of classroom hours, and “the academic jihad,” which takes place inside the classroom. To counter both, it is necessary to “get out of defensive mode” and insist on [...]

This time media distortion makes Brits look bad

By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 12-15-10 Last Thursday, we saw once again how the media distorts views of the conflict. Rather than concentrating on the peaceful, constructive majority, reporters spotlighted the most violent, destructive, extremist minority’s activities.  In economics, Gresham’s Law suggests that bad money always drives good money out of circulation; in media, politics, [...]

Let’s mobilize against anti-Israel week

By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-7-10 We historians don’t predict the future – the past is foggy enough. But allow me one prediction. Within weeks, the Jewish world is going to be in high dudgeon, outraged at the Anti-Israel Week activities on campuses across North America. And, judging by the past, and the current situation [...]

Gil Troy: Professors can stop campus hooligans

By Gil Troy, Toronto Star, 3-5-09 AARON HARRIS/TORONTO STAR A protester stands in the Wallberg Building at U of T on March 3, 2009, during lectures for Israeli Apartheid Week. Day after day we read about aggressive student protesters and dithering administrators at universities across Canada, but particularly at York University. Radical student hooligans there [...]

Gil Troy: Student unions should stick to student issues

By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 2-26-09 Earlier this month, McGill University students voted 436 to 263 to postpone indefinitely a Students’ Society resolution condemning the “bombings” of “educational institutions in Gaza.” The initiative paralleled similar resolutions that passed at other Canadian universities, including the University of Toronto and York. But a clear majority of [...]

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