The encampment was set up around 1:30 p.m. Saturday
Several tents have gone up on McGill's downtown campus in what students are calling an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, joining a wave of similar protests taking place across U.S. campuses amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.Several tents have gone up on McGill's downtown campus in what students are calling an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, joining a wave of similar protests taking place across U.S. campuses amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Protestors are demanding McGill and Concordia universities "divest from funds implicated in the Zionist state as well as ties with Zionist academic institutions," according to a statement sent to CBC News by Zaynab Ali, a McGill student participating in the protest.published on April 18 by McGill Hunger Strike for Palestine and Students for Justice in Palestine.
On Saturday afternoon, organizers were heard asking that as many people as possible stay at the encampment overnight.
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