Students at the University of Windsor (UW) in Ontario, Canada passed
a motion to support BDS by 798 to 585 votes. Like most student moves
to support Palestinina rights this provoked threats and reprisals. The
backlash this time had an extreme islamophobic flavour.

Richard Spenser, a major donor to the university not only promised
ot withdraw his funding but did so saying, ‘ I am reasonably certain
that the majority, if not all, of this small percentage of the student
body are of the Muslim faith, which promotes violence and hatred toward
the Jews in the middle east.’ This prompts the questin of why the univesrity
was prepared to accept donations from someone who so easily uses racist
slurs and whether they apply due diligence before acepting donations.

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full report in Electronic Intifada