During Israeli Apartheid Week in 2008, the University of Toronto hosted a conference of a newly formed group called High Schools Against Israel Apartheid. Ominously, the conference room was closed to all adults — teachers, parents and media — so we don’t know the particulars of the closed session led by extreme anti-Zionist activists.

This was a pivotal, barrier-crossing event. Organized radical anti-Zionism had up to then targeted (nominal) adults on campus; now they were engaging with lower-hanging fruit in younger, more vulnerable hearts and minds.

Since then, not only high schools, but all Ontario schools have become fertile terrain, not only for the continuing promotion of anti-Zionism and pro-Palestinian “resistance” to Zionism’s alleged evils, but for the normalization of Islamic

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