Confrontation at Concordia

First and foremost, the student body’s role in forcing Netanyahu to cancel his speech was a key issue in the documentary. The video shows that Clean Slate, a student run organization that denounces racism, rises up to claim student council, and ironically enforces that very bigotry. Most certainly, Montreal’s prime university should not become the host of such unruly events as riots, yet in the movie, Clean Slate holds various protests and riots. Included in these horrific protests are the shattering of glass, the destruction of sc

Indeed, Clean Slate’s power on campus caused the riots to begin, yet it was not the organization, but the freedom of speech it’s leaders possessed, that caused the greatest issue at Concordia. Throughout the movie, Samer Elatrash, the leader of Clean Slate, makes various statements that he is Palestinian at heart, and believes that Israel should become a secular state. Through Elatrash’s motives, Clean Slate begins to voice anti-Semitic statements, including a particularly harsh scene in the movie where many Palestinian students at Concordia gather together to scream, “Bow down Israel!” since the second Intifada had already begun in Israel, as this movie focuses on September 9th, 2002. Former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu certainly had no intentions of stirring up such havoc over his will to speak to the students about his experiences, yet his freedom of speech was violated. Members of Clean Slate made certain that all students, even those who were not Jewish and wished to hear Netanyahu’s speech by their own choice, had their choic

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