Quebec court grants injunction against anti-Israel protesters during ‘Week of Rage’ on McGill campus
Quebec Superior Court granted a temporary injunction against a pro-Palestine organization from blocking buildings or protesting within five metres of campus buildings at McGill University, while Jewish students are continuing to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. The provisional injunction, issued on Oct. 8—which will remain valid for 10 days—is intended to […]
Vancouver Island University seeks injunction to remove the last encampment on a Canadian campus
A pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of Vancouver Island University (VIU) in Nanaimo, B.C., believed to be the last of its kind in Canada, continues despite the issuing of a trespass notice and VIU’s subsequent move last month to take the protesters to court. Injunction proceedings will be heard on Aug. 8 and 9 at […]
University of Windsor offers a separate agreement to Jewish students after making a far-reaching deal with pro-Palestinian encampment protesters
The University of Windsor issued an olive branch on July 16 to its Jewish students—and to Canada’s Jewish community and its allies—pledging to take “tangible” steps to make all students feel included, safe and welcome on the campus. The unexpected statement was released just days after Jewish groups reacted with outrage to the school’s July […]
Opinion: The folly of pro-Palestinian protesters screaming at Jewish teenage girls playing softball in Surrey, B.C.
Did the protesters even realize who would be on the field when they showed up?
Watching movies at UQAM’s now-dismantled pro-Palestinian encampment leads McGill student Ben Wexler to reflect on the protesters’ success—and the message for Jews
UQAM’s pro-Palestinian encampment was scheduled to come down on June 6, after protesters reached a resolution with university administration. McGill student Ben Wexler visited the site on its final weekend… I promised myself I would watch more films this summer. So when I saw that the al-Aqsa encampment at the Université du Québec à Montréal […]
Jewish advocacy groups granted intervener status in the University of Toronto court case to remove encampment
Plus the story of a pro-Israel counter-protest being removed.
Ontario Tech University is the first in Canada to reach an agreement with a pro-Palestinian encampment—but some academics are criticizing the deal for singling out Israel
Ontario Tech University, in Oshawa, Ont., has reached an agreement with the pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up on its campus, the first such deal reached in Canada between protesters and academic administration. The university has agreed to disclose all of its investments and establish a responsible investment working group, while the signatories, who were […]
McGill’s student union’s Palestine policy has little to do with democracy or academic freedom, says a former student representative
The Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) recently made headlines after the school threatened to sanction the association for adopting a “Palestine Solidarity Policy”—a misleadingly named, unconstitutional proposal to marginalize Jewish groups. Nevertheless, many undergraduates and staff continue to defend the manifesto as an example of student “democracy.” When McGill warned students on March 24 that the Palestine referendum question violated the student union’s own policies, then-student […]
Toronto day school defaced with pro-Palestinian slogans
Students and faculty at The Leo Baeck Day School’s South Campus in Toronto returned from the Thanksgiving long weekend to find pro-Palestinian slogans plastered on their school.
Protesters square off in front of B’nai Brith headquarters
Outside B’nai Brith Canada’s headquarters in Toronto, pro- and anti-Israel demonstrators squared off on opposite sides of the street.
