[1] The film chronicles how pro-Palestinian student activists staged a direct action aimed to cancel the former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address on campus.
[2][3] The documentary portrays the events that took place in a negative light, and reportedly contributed to the ensuing media debate over them.
[4] The documentary opens with scenes of the violence at the event, depicting fighting between protesters and Jewish students attempting to enter the venue.
[5] The documentary presents footage of pro-Palestinian activists breaking windows and pushing and shoving to block the only entry to the lecture hall.
If the real solution to this fanaticism is ventilation, the aeration of various ideas, then you got a whiff of the underlying root cause of terrorism in Concordia.
[3]In the film, Thomas Hecht, a former member of the Board of Governors of Concordia University and a Holocaust survivor, states: This was anti-Semitism.
I was the object of their hatred ... which expressed itself with placards; with a kind of venom which I have not seen on the streets of a city since the horrible days of occupied, Nazi-occupied Europe.
It also noted the potential conflict of interests due to the fact that the film was aired on Global TV which is owned by CanWest, the media outlet which in part helped organize the invitation of Netanyahu to speak.