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KINSELLA: Democratic values under attack as antisemitism fragments Canada

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Charles Asher Small is a scholar of renown. His list of academic achievements are too many to list here.

A short sampling: over his long career, Small has been associated with Oxford University, Yale University, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, the Université de Montreal, and McGill University. He’s written or edited no small number of books and academic papers. Along the way, he founded the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and – he notes, proudly – he’s a Montreal boy. 

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Small went to McGill, got a B.A. there, then went on to do great things. ISGAP is one of them.

There are lots of organizations that fight antisemitism and prejudice, but Small’s ISGAP has done some important things that others have not.

Just recently, for example, ISGAP revealed that a number of prestigious American universities were secretly receiving millions under the table from the Hamas-friendly regime in Qatar. That’s against U.S. law.

Revelations led to consequences aplenty

When Small revealed that fact, there were consequences aplenty – including the closure of engineering programs that were seemingly aiding and abetting the development of nuclear weapons technology. And Qatar-funded antisemitism at Ivy League universities was finally exposed for all to........

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