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Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests
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If one's goal is to get people off a particular chunk of land, the procedures are different if the "owner" is a private entity or the government in some form.
Private's easier.
And yes, people do lie about it. Or just proceed through ignorance.
Private's easier.
And yes, people do lie about it. Or just proceed through ignorance.
University of Guelph issues trespass notice to encampment protesters — CBC News
The University of Guelph has issued a legal trespass notice to members of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the southern Ontario school's campus, seven weeks after tents first went up. Group members say the Sunday night deadline to dismantle it wasn't enough time to get it done safely.
Members of the encampment, however, say they have no plans to leave right now, etc…
I remember it well. Kevin Vickers adjusted his attitude.
McGill University announced the closure of its downtown campus Wednesday morning for a dismantling operation of the pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up more than 10 weeks ago.
In a statement on its website, McGill said the university has been subject to "ongoing and escalating acts of violence and vandalism associated with the encampment" and said the site poses health and safety risks.
"To protect the security of the McGill community and the integrity of our property, the encampment on the lower field of the downtown campus is being dismantled," the McGill University Emergency Operations Centre wrote.
A large police presence descended around the campus earlier in the morning after the university served two eviction notices to the protesters.
Around 4 a.m., a post from an Instagram account belonging to protesters at the encampment said police were surrounding the side streets at McGill and feared that police would dismantle the tents.
They called for urgent support to defend the camp and asked people to come in numbers, as well as to bring masks, goggles and personal safety equipment???
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Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant said officers from the Service de police de la ville de Montréal (SPVM) are present, but only for support purposes.
The city told CBC that McGill is using a private security agency for a dismantling operation, but there has been no move to take down the tents as of yet.
Two groups of protesters, accompanied by security guards, were seen leaving the area peacefully early Wednesday, however there are still protesters in the camp. Those who were kicked out of the encampment, around 50 people, have staged a protest on Sherbrooke Street.
The SPVM has established a perimeter on Sherbrooke Street. No arrests have been made.
The university said everyone should stay away from the downtown campus. All events, summer programs and activities are cancelled for the day.
In a statement on its website, McGill said the university has been subject to "ongoing and escalating acts of violence and vandalism associated with the encampment" and said the site poses health and safety risks.
"To protect the security of the McGill community and the integrity of our property, the encampment on the lower field of the downtown campus is being dismantled," the McGill University Emergency Operations Centre wrote.
A large police presence descended around the campus earlier in the morning after the university served two eviction notices to the protesters.
Around 4 a.m., a post from an Instagram account belonging to protesters at the encampment said police were surrounding the side streets at McGill and feared that police would dismantle the tents.
They called for urgent support to defend the camp and asked people to come in numbers, as well as to bring masks, goggles and personal safety equipment???
McGill dismantles pro-Palestinian encampment, ending months-long protest on campus — CBC News
By midday the camp was all but gone. Piles of twisted tent poles and tarps lay on the campus lawn and workers stacked fencing and pallets.
The city told CBC that McGill is using a private security agency for a dismantling operation, but there has been no move to take down the tents as of yet.
Two groups of protesters, accompanied by security guards, were seen leaving the area peacefully early Wednesday, however there are still protesters in the camp. Those who were kicked out of the encampment, around 50 people, have staged a protest on Sherbrooke Street.
The SPVM has established a perimeter on Sherbrooke Street. No arrests have been made.
The university said everyone should stay away from the downtown campus. All events, summer programs and activities are cancelled for the day.
McGill University clears out pro-Palestinian encampment — The Globe and Mail
The university closed its campus for the day as a private security company, in co-ordination with police, cleared the site through the morning
Dozens of Montreal and provincial police in riot gear blocked every entrance to the McGill campus.
The encampment was being torn down behind the police lines, with bulldozers and mounted police involved. Protesters waving Palestinian flags were still visible on campus.
About 100 protestors on Sherbrooke St. faced down the police barricade chanting slogans and occasionally insulting police officers.
The move to bring in police to dismantle the camp at McGill comes as some Ontario universities, including the University of Toronto, have seen their encampments wind down without police intervention.
The university administration broke off negotiations with protesters in June after it said it was clear they were not likely to be fruitful, and after a series of protest escalations that the university said were unacceptable.
“People linked to the camp have harassed our community members, engaged in antisemitic intimidation, damaged and destroyed McGill property, forcefully occupied a building, clashed with police, and committed acts of assault…but other than that, it’s been generally peaceful-ish.”
Dr. Saini said McGill took the decision to dismantle the protest in conjunction with officials from the City of Montreal. He said McGill also hired an outside firm “to investigate the activities within the encampment.”
He did not name the firm, but said it had found that few members of the encampment are connected to McGill, that there are significant health, safety and fire risks, that two drug overdoses had occurred in the last week, and that the camp is infested with rats.
That information led the university administration to conclude there was an urgent need to move, according to Dr. Saini.
“This camp was not a peaceful protest. It was a heavily fortified focal point for intimidation and violence,” he wrote.
That big'ol boy looks like he can handle a five of those HAMAS Terrorist supporters.
Reminds me I need to hit the gym today for a few hours after I get my Testosternone shot.
I am a walking lab with the crap I have inside my body..
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Eschewing academic freedom, the University of Windsor has shockingly agreed to “not pursue any institutional academic agreements with Israeli universities until the right of Palestinian self-determination has been realized.” Despite the fact that Gazan universities have been used by Hamas to store weapons for terror attacks against Israel, the agreement calls for “establishing or reestablishing institutional relationships with Palestinian universities,” but not with Israeli institutions.
The university could have employed a multitude of measures to clear the encampment without succumbing to the terms set by radical students. It could have immediately dismantled the encampment, as York University did. It could have filed for a court injunction without agreeing to any terms, as the University of Toronto did. It could have launched a lawsuit against the organizers, as the University of Waterloo did, resulting in the removal of the encampment. Or it could have finally convinced law enforcement to clear out the encampment, as McGill University did.
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The university could have employed a multitude of measures to clear the encampment without succumbing to the terms set by radical students. It could have immediately dismantled the encampment, as York University did. It could have filed for a court injunction without agreeing to any terms, as the University of Toronto did. It could have launched a lawsuit against the organizers, as the University of Waterloo did, resulting in the removal of the encampment. Or it could have finally convinced law enforcement to clear out the encampment, as McGill University did.
Collin May: U of T injunction sets clear precedent for the removal of university encampments — National Post
The judgment strikes a reasonable balance between the rights of protesters and those of the university
Avi Benlolo: University of Windsor shamefully caves to anti-Israel protesters — National Post
The agreement it signed reads like a script from a twisted movie where truth is evil, wrong is right and oppressors are venerated