(Montreal Gazette) Editorial - In the face of anonymous threats, administrators at the University of Quebec in Montreal cited security concerns as they prohibited Israeli journalist and professor Gideon Kouts from speaking to the Jewish student group Hillel, although officials have now reversed their ban. In September, glass-smashing thugs silenced former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Concordia. Then the Concordia Student Union voted to expel Hillel on the flimsiest of pretexts. Not every cross word between Jews and non-Jews is the start of a new Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass. But we have heard glass breaking on the streets of Montreal.
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