OTTAWA – At a press conference Wednesday, Jewish university students said they are being regularly harassed and assaulted on their campuses just ahead of House of Commons committee hearings expected to examine what they said has become a widespread problem.

Students from multiple schools appeared at the press conference and told stories about being harassed as they walked past protest encampments on campuses or had professors try to rationalize Hamas’s actions on October 7. The terrorist group killed more than 1,200 Israelis in that attack and took another 200 hostage. Israeli launched a full scale invasion of Gaza after the attack, leading to tens of thousands of casualties.