Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books, Music & More, at the opening of her first store in Burlington, Ont., in 1997.Photo by Simon Wilson/The Canadian Press

NP View: The odious smear campaign against Heather Reisman and Indigo books

She should be celebrated as one of this country’s most successful entrepreneurs and most generous philanthropists, not protested against

by · National Post

For months, anti-Israel demonstrators have been engaged in an insidious campaign targeting one of Canada’s greatest success stories: Heather Reisman and her Indigo bookstore empire.

The crusade against the Canadian retailer is part of the broader boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel that gained new life among those who have singled out the Jewish state as the source of all evil since Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre.