Jewish students say they don't feel safe, as MPs probe antisemitism at universities

Jewish college students from main Canadian universities appeared on Parliament Hill right now to boost the alarm a few rise in antisemitism on their campuses amid the Israel-Hamas warfare.

They appeared alongside a number of Liberal MPs, together with Anthony Housefather, who helped provoke a parliamentary committee examine about antisemitism on campuses scheduled to start Thursday.

Housefather cited considerations from Jewish college students and school who say they’re experiencing a pointy spike of antisemitic behaviour since Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel. 

Students and pro-Palestinian activists have not too long ago arrange encampments at faculties to protest Israel’s warfare towards Hamas within the Gaza Strip. 

Administrators and Jewish leaders have raised considerations about antisemitic chants and slogans being featured on the protests.

Claire Frankel, a pupil at McGill University, says she has heard slogans that “dehumanize Jews,” however believes many college students are demonstrating “for the right reasons” and need to see an enduring peace.