A Canadian court stopped two pro-Palestinian members of Canada’s Parliament from addressing students. Svend Robinson and Libby Davies, members of the New Democratic Party, were scheduled to speak at Concordia University last Friday. Their speeches would have broken a university moratorium on Mideast-related events imposed after pro-Palestinian rioters forced the cancellation of a speech by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sept. 9.
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