During Israeli Apartheid Week in 2008, the University of Toronto hosted a conference of a newly formed group called High Schools Against Israel Apartheid. Ominously, the conference room was closed to all adults — teachers, parents and media — so we don’t know the particulars of the closed session led by extreme anti-Zionist activists.
This was a pivotal, barrier-crossing event. Organized radical anti-Zionism had up to then targeted (nominal) adults on campus; now they were engaging with lower-hanging fruit in younger, more vulnerable hearts and minds.
