Excalibur frosh issue

The only article of concern in Excal's frosh issue is an opinion piece by opinions editor Dan Freeman-Maloy in which he criticizes a whole number of things, but primarily targets an IDF Appreciation event carried out by the campus Young Zionist Partnership. One clip:

Last year, current YFS president Paul Cooper helped organize the most militarist event I have ever seen on a campus. The event was a celebration of a military that is internationally condemned for its repressive tactics, including extrajudicial assassination of dissidents, political imprisonment of children, and torture. (See Adam Hanieh’s book Stolen Youth, or visit www.zmag.org, for details on these policies.)

Cooper booked the space for an “Appreciation Day” for the Israeli military, and stood next to the mayor of an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank to coordinate the event. The leader of “Progress not Politics” thus continued acting in the spirit in which he had helped to bring Stockwell Day, the former leader of the Canadian Alliance, to speak on campus the year before. And his conservative and militarist convictions remain clear.

Freeman-Maloy's (and Excalibur's) email address is letters@excal.on.ca.

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