Source: CounterPunch
by Judith Deutsch
“Last week the president of the U of T allowed the Jewish Defense League, bolstered by Toronto police, to break up, brutalize and physically assault anti-genocide protesters on the campus encampment. This was even reported in Ha-aretz but not in local news. In this article I liken the president, Merick Gertler, to Hannah Arendt’spicture of Nazi Adolph Eichmann. He was in charge of deporting Jews to concentration camps. Arendt writes of the ‘banality of evil,’ Eichmann’s mindlessness, the absence of self-observation and self-criticism for whom humans were mere numbers, ‘out of sight out of mind.’ For those who don’t know, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a fanatical organization brought together by Meir Kahane, whose member Baruch Goldstein perpetrated the Hebron cave massacre, and it was classified as a terrorist organization in Israel, the U.S., but not in Canada.” (09/18/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/18/eichmann-in-toronto/