Condemnation Erupts After BDS Measure Bans ‘Pro-Israel’ Kosher Caterers At Toronto University

“I think it is an embarrassment to society,” said Rabbi Nechemia Deitsch, director of Chabad of Midtown in Toronto, which services the university population. “The fact that there is this hatred in the air is due completely to a lack of education.”

He told JNS that students are concerned, but that they are “very determined to stay strong and in all the moral values that Judaism stands for. They will continue to be a light upon the nations and on their communities.”

“Let’s be absolutely clear what the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union is demanding: Jewish students—and only Jewish students—must prove that they embrace particular political viewpoints to be ‘included’ and treated ‘equitably’ on campus,” said Douglas Sandoval, managing editor of CAMERA on Campus, which provides assistance to college and university students who are battling anti-Israel hatred on campus.

“The union is even targeting how Jews get their kosher food. The moral perversity here is simply jaw-dropping.”

While the SCSU’s resolution states that it opposes “any form(s) of anti-Semitic remarks or rhetoric that seek to abuse the BDS movement as a method of discrimination against Jewish students,” Sandoval said their very actions prove otherwise.

“[T]he one good thing about it is that the union has plainly shown, for everyone to see, that BDS is antisemitic—just the latest expression of mankind’s oldest bigotry,” he said. “Under what circumstances is it acceptable for an ethnoreligious minority to be treated with such contempt on a North American university campus? I’m embarrassed for the school.”