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McGill University says it has obtained a 10-day injunction focusing on Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance (SPHR) and “all those who become aware of the judgment” in an effort to “protect its academic mission and to defend students’ and instructors’ right to learn and work in an environment that is safe, stable, and suitable for teaching, learning, and research.”
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In an email forwarded to the McGill community late Tuesday, the university’s communications department said the injunction ordered “SPHR and any person aware of the judgment (not to) block, obstruct, or hinder all or in part any entrance or exit to a building where McGill activities are underway, including buildings with McGill classes, labs, and offices. The order extends to streets or walkways directly connected to entrances or exits.”
The court order also says the SPHR and any person aware of the judgment cannot engage in protest activities within 5 metres of any McGill building, or “engage in harassment or intimidating and/or threatening behaviour involving any member of the McGill community or any visitor or contractor at McGill. ”
The injunction also says SPHR and any person aware of this judgment “must not engage in behaviour that disturbs the peace or engages in public disturbance, including disturbing classes or labs. ”
In the email, the university reminds the McGill community that “(w)e have been the site of obstructive protests barring students and instructors from accessing classrooms and buildings. Just yesterday, we saw acts of violence, vandalism and intimidation. In announcing its October 7 to 11 ‘Week of Rage’, SPHR stated that there must be ‘no business or classes as usual’. This clearly violates the fundamental academic rights of students, instructors, and all McGillians.”
The message noted that “this injunction does not prevent anyone from exercising their rights to free speech and free assembly, on campus or elsewhere, within the limits imposed by the court.”
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