Toronto. While students rode Pro-Palestinian campgrounds at some of Canada’s largest universitieshe premier of quebecFrançois Legault, assured that the camp of the McGill University of Montreal was to be dismantled.
The protests in Canada began when the Police have been arresting hundreds of people at US universities, while the number of dead in Loop increases.
Although the university there was required the intervention of the policelaw enforcement had not intervened on Thursday to clear the camp.
Students also set up camps at other Canadian centers, such as the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa.
On Thursday morning, University of Toronto students set up camp on a fenced-in grassy area on the university’s downtown campus, where about 100 protesters gathered with dozens of tents.
What are the demands of the pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Toronto?
According to a statement from the organizers, the camp will remain until the university make public their investmentsbe detached from anyone who “holds the israeli apartheidthe occupation and illegal settlement of Palestine” and put end at associations with some institutions academic Israelis.
Israel claims that it is not participating in apartheid and that its attack on Gaza does not constitute genocide.
A university spokesperson told Reuters it was “dialogueing with protesters” and that, at midday, the camp was “not disrupting normal university activities.”
Sara Rasikh, a graduate student at the University of Toronto and spokesperson for the camp, told Reuters that will remain there until meet their demands.