Dave Gordon spoke with Goldstein, a McGill graduate who earned her law degree from Yeshiva University in New York, for National Post.<\/p>\n
What are you seeing across campuses that might not appear in the headlines?<\/p>\n
A troubling radicalization of the student body, with a big issue of foreign funding. We have a case against Carnegie Mellon University now, which is, I think, the third largest recipient of funds from Qatar.<\/p>\n
Qatar has been funding anti-Americanism, radicalizing the student body. They\u2019ve been funding DEI programs. When a school has those programs, hatred and discrimination against Jewish students rise.<\/p>\n
You see the same narratives on Canadian campuses of appeasement and justification of terrorism. It\u2019s including pro-Islamist narratives of October 7 rape denial, accusations of colonization, and the BDS movement.<\/p>\n
We need to find the source of this radicalization. We\u2019re seeing a systemic level of indoctrination, hatred, and propaganda coming from the administration itself.<\/p>\n
How are lines of protected speech crossed?<\/p>\n
You\u2019re free to hold up a sign saying, \u2018I hate Jews, I love Hamas.\u2019 That\u2019s protected speech, even though it\u2019s terrible and a sign of a failure of our educational system.<\/p>\n
But when you block a student\u2019s ability to enter into a classroom, when you create a hostile environment to the point where Jewish or other minority students are actually scared to go to class, when Jewish students are singled out in class and picked on, that becomes action.<\/p>\n
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Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy the lobby of the Hall Building during a demonstration at Concordia University in Montreal on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n
Students were locked up in the library, falsely imprisoned in Cooper Union with pro-Hamas protesters banging on the windows, holding sticks and placards, and chanting genocidal slogans. That\u2019s not free speech, that\u2019s harassment. There\u2019s a level of negligence, maybe intentional, of the school to control the students.<\/p>\n
Students are purposely concealing their identity and violating the student conduct code. Administrators refuse to implement and apply the university\u2019s code.<\/p>\n
When a student is being treated differently, or denied services, or subjected to a hostile environment because of a protected category \u2014 that student\u2019s religion, skin colour, race, ethnicity or national identity \u2014 that\u2019s discrimination.<\/p>\n
What are you hoping for in your cases against universities?<\/p>\n
They can settle or be litigated. In the end, what you want is a judgment by a court saying this behaviour is wrong, and set a precedent, and say it is unlawful to treat a student like this.<\/p>\n
We want to hear that our plaintiff faced anti-Jewish discrimination and deprived her of her ability to engage as an equal participant in her learning environment. Once you set that precedent, other schools have to follow, or they too will be held liable and accountable.<\/p>\n
Or you settle the case, which sometimes is preferred. You can try to fix the issues at the school.<\/p>\n
At Cooper Union, we had a policy that\u2019s going to be implemented by the school, per the settlement agreement, that students cannot wear masks to conceal their identity, they have to carry their student ID, and any posters have to be approved.<\/p>\n
Most importantly, we got the school to recognize that Zionism is an integral part of Jewish identity, and there should be no anti-Zionist discrimination on campus \u2014 that\u2019s akin to anti-Jewish discrimination.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s schools that want to do the right thing, and they don\u2019t know how, and they welcome the settlement agreement. Sometimes there\u2019s schools that don\u2019t want to cooperate.<\/p>\n
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Anti-Israel protesters are seen shortly before being evicted from their encampment at the University of Toronto on July 3, 2024.<\/p>\n
What do you want to see from Canada\u2019s legislators?<\/p>\n
The government needs to apply the rule of law. You have pro-terror, Islamist groups \u2014 some pushing up and down the streets, harassing local residents. Where\u2019s law enforcement?<\/p>\n
What are they doing to ensure that these groups are not illegally fundraising?<\/p>\n
People who are arrested at these pro-terror rallies, who are engaged in lawlessness, it\u2019s like a catch-and-release policy. There\u2019s no deterrence there.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re expanding EndJewHatred to Canada. What does your organization do that isn\u2019t already done by existing organizations?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think anybody is engaged in any type of meaningful ground work or mobilization.<\/p>\n
I funded a study on minority rights movements in North America; what we noticed was there was a combination of impact litigation and grassroots.<\/p>\n
That is why we\u2019ve seen such change. You have to mobilize the community.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s happened is these major big box Jewish organizations have said, \u2018If you want to fight antisemitism, write me a cheque, and I\u2019ll do it for you.\u2019 That\u2019s not working. We don\u2019t see the needle moving.<\/p>\n
But the metrics of impact litigation are real.<\/p>\n
Foodbenders was a wonderful example. We filed the successful lawsuit, but also, the community showed up and protested, and eventually that restaurant shut down.<\/p>\n
We want to mobilize the Jewish community and our allies to physically engage in direct actions, protests, letter campaigns, showing up at council meetings \u2014 to force the change we want to see.<\/p>\n
How does the Jewish community gather more allies?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think our allies are far and few between. North Americans want to live in freedom. They want the rule of law to be applied equally. They do not want radicalization on their campuses. They don\u2019t want to see terrorist groups fundraise within our country.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll see a lot of panels, conferences, Zoom calls, and Insta lives, but in the end, there needs to be a specific call to action. This is what we do with our chapters.<\/p>\n
The question is, what have we asked our allies to do? Have we asked them to show up at the protest with us? Have we asked them to stand with us when we go to city council? I don\u2019t think we have. I don\u2019t think any major organization is really organizing sustained, effective protests in Canada, the same way that we\u2019re doing in the United States.<\/p>\n
What the allies need to understand is that this is not a Jewish issue. We don\u2019t need better PR for Israel. We need pro-Judeo-Christian values PR. We need negative campaigning against radical Islam. We cannot be afraid to talk about the threats that face the Jewish community, face the rest of the West equally. The message needs to be one of shared values.<\/p>\n
This interview was edited for brevity.<\/p>\n
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