The anti-Israel forces physically assaulted the would-be audience. A female professor of religion at Concordia recounted how some of them “aimed their punches at my breasts.” They smashed a plate-glass window and threw objects at the police inside. They hurled furniture at police from a mezzanine. As Toronto's Globe & Mail put it, “By lunchtime, the vestibule of Concordia's main downtown building was littered with paper, upturned chairs, broken furniture and the choking aftereffects of pepper spray.” उन्होंने एक शीशे की खिडकी तोड दी और पुलिस पर चीजें फेंकी। उन्होंने निचली बालकनी से पुलिस पर फर्नीचर फेंके। जैसा कि टोरंटो के ग्लोब एंड मेल ने लिखा है , “ दोपहर तक कोंकोर्डिया के प्रमुख भवन में उलटी हुई कुर्सियाँ , टूटे फर्नीचर ,जले हुए कागज की भरमार थी”
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That Tagore survived this hazard and himself smashed the idol that others had made of him , that he broke the fetters he had forged for himself , and went on discovering new areas of creative expression , surpassing his own earlier achievements , that nothing could keep him captive to a pinnacle however high or to a pasture however green and luscious , is the best evidence we have of the unfailing vitality of his genius , his untiring quest of the unknown , his intellectual vigour and spiritual integrity . वे सर्जनात्मक विचार के नए क्षेत्रों का संधान करते गए , अपनी सारी पुरानी उपलब्धियों को पीछे छोडऋकर , कि चाहे कुछ भी हो , सबसे ऊंची चोटी या एक हर्राभरा चरागाह - उन्हें बंदी नहीं बना सकता , इसका सबसे अच्छा निदर्शन हमारे पास उनकी प्रतिभा की अनंत तेजस्विता , उनकी उस अनजान की अनथक खोज , उनका विद्व
