A protest outside a Toronto speech by a pro-Israel scholar drew fewer people than expected. Before the talk by Daniel Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, a group of 110 professors, students and librarians published an open letter asserting that “hate, prejudice and fear-mongering” have no place on the University of Toronto campus, but only about a dozen students demonstrated peacefully Tuesday outside the building where Pipes spoke on “Radical Islam and the War on Terror.”
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