Hundreds of Concordia University students and members of P!nk Bloc, a queer collective born during Maple Spring, joined the pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill University on Saturday.
The demonstrators do not intend to leave, despite the words of Quebec Prime Minister François Legault, who said twice this week that the encampment is illegal and that he is counting on the police to dismantle it.
Honestly, it doesn’t surprise me [François] Legault. From the beginning, he was never able to take a strong position against the ongoing genocide
reacted a demonstrator on Saturday.
On site for a week, demonstrators are asking McGill University to stop financing companies linked to Israel.
In their sights, in particular, the arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, the main supplier to the Israeli army.
We will be ready and ready to go when we are listened to on divestment
warned another demonstrator.
We are all together in the name of justice. That’s all we want, justice
testified an elderly man wearing a red keffiyeh, emblem of the Palestinian struggle, as a scarf.
With information from Danielle Kadjo
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