In May 2025, the Canadian Jewish News published an op-ed I wrote in response to a letter signed by forty academics who invoked their Jewish identity to demand the resignation of then-Quebec Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry. The Quebec government had launched an investigation following confidential reports of antisemitism at Montreal’s Vanier and Dawson Colleges. The signatories of the letter dismissed the investigation as an unjustified witch hunt and an attack on academic freedom.

At the heart of their argument was the claim that Jewish students who reported feeling targeted were not experiencing actual antisemitism. Rather, they were – supposedly –  experiencing political discomfort because confronted with uncomfortable truths: that the creation of the Jewish state was a crime and that Zionists are engaged in an ongoing genocide against the region’s........

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