SJP and MSA, two ugly interlinked hate groups harassing Jewish students on campus, have a history of targeting Holocaust events. This is yet another such incident.
A motion to commemorate Holocaust Education Week failed at the semi-annual General Meeting of the Ryerson Student Union (RSU) on Tuesday night, after students opposed to the motion staged a walk-out that caused the meeting to lose quorum.
The motion in question, submitted by a member of Hillel Ryerson, would have committed the RSU to offering annual Holocaust education programs to emphasize “the value of pluralism and the acceptance of diversity.”
Ryerson student Aedan O’Connor, who attended the meeting, told B’nai Brith Canada that Jewish students promoting the Holocaust education motion were mocked by their non-Jewish peers, and that the walk-out was a premeditated tactic organized by local members of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students Association. She and other students have since gone to social media to condemn the walk-out.
Third-year student Aedan O’Connor, there to support the motion, said she and other students were subject to jeers and snickers when they spoke, which escalated to anti-Semitic comments.
She also accused two groups of orchestrating a spontaneous walkout so quorum would be lost at the meeting, and with it an opportunity to vote on the motion for Holocaust remembrance — which both groups denied.
According to Ryerson Hillel member Aedan O’Connor, MSA and SJP leaders were patrolling the hallway outside the meeting hall — even blocking the doors to the bathroom — to ensure that none of their adherents returned to the room.
As a result, the meeting lost the quorum — a minimum of 100 students — necessary to vote on or amend any motion, and the RSU had to adjourn. As a result, the Holocaust education motion was shelved.
Atara Shields, a journalism student who attended the meeting, told The Algemeiner there is no other justification for what happened other than “blatant” Jew-hatred and said student groups who usually try to distinguish between anti-Israelism and Jew-hatred “didn’t attempt to sugarcoat or hide their antisemitism.”
Lyons told The Algemeiner that, before the quorum was lost, “while I was standing in line to vote, I was aggressively told by the president of the MSA and vice president of SJP to ‘sit down because there are too many of you.’ I am known as a vice president of SSI and I was wearing my Star of David necklace. When I called them out on their comment, they brushed it off.”
Now she is demanding that these student leaders “be held accountable.”