Canadian Universities Normalize Islamist Extremism Instances of Alleged Foreign Influence and Funding Compound a Student Radicalization Problem - February 27, 2025 Joe Adam George

MEFORUM : The antisemitism roiling Canadian university campuses following the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel by Hamas has been extensively documented. As university leaders largely turn a blind eye, Jewish students and faculty members face targeting by their peers who use anti-Zionism and accusations of “anti-Palestinian racism” to justify their incendiary rhetoric and actions.

Universities that tolerate the normalization of extremism will produce graduates who view terrorism as a legitimate form of resistance rather than a criminal act.

However, recent events at major universities across the country highlight an escalating and disturbing trend: Individuals and organizations who dominate teaching faculties, student unions, and DEI departments actively excuse and promote terrorism and radical Islamist ideologies. Under the pretext of academic discussion and political advocacy, universities grant a platform to extremists who openly support violence, glorify terrorism, and seek to undermine Canada’s national security.

Terrorism Glorified and Normalized on Campuses

Solidarite Palestine à l’UQAM, the University of Quebec in Montreal chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), held a screening of a documentary titled “Gaza Ghetto Uprising” on February 18, 2025. The event poster featured an image of the October 7 attacks, showing Palestinians entering Israel to conduct their massacre.

According to details mentioned in the poster, the organizers—who did not respond to a request for comment from Focus on Western Islamism (FWI)—discussed “the urban guerrilla tactics implemented since October 7 by the Palestinian resistance and Israeli counterinsurgency techniques” to study “the practical and strategic lessons offered by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza” and “how to confront it [Israeli counterinsurgency].”

The post evokes the words of alleged Palestinian terrorist, Basel al-A’araj, who was killed by Israeli forces in a firefight in 2017. An updated event poster shows that the event was moved to a different venue within the university campus following pressure from Jewish groups.

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