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Concordia U. Bans Hillel for Offering IDF Pamphlet
(Globe and Mail - Canada) Ingrid Peritz - The student union at Montreal's Concordia University has voted to suspend privileges of the campus's main Jewish club, Hillel, and demanded that the club apologize for placing pamphlets on an information table that sought volunteers for the Israel Defense Forces. The student-union motion freezes Hillel's $3,000 annual budget and forbids the group to set up tables or book rooms at the university. Thursday night, the Jewish group organized a gathering on campus to defy the ban, drawing hundreds of supporters. The meeting in the university auditorium was interrupted by a handful of hecklers who were quickly shouted down as Jewish community members sang pro-Israeli songs. Several inflamed exchanges blew up between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students. University security guards and Montreal police stood by, and riot-police vans formed a long column outside the university.