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Activists at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) have established their own encampment “in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle against apartheid, genocide and Israeli colonial violence,” they announced Sunday.
The encampment at UQAM’s Coeur des sciences joins other such protests at McGill University and universities in Ottawa and Toronto.
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McGill University is seeking a court order to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment, arguing it wants to avoid an escalation of tensions and a deterioration of conditions on its downtown campus.
The group Université Populaire Al-Aqsa (UPA-UQAM) demands the withdrawal of the injunction against the McGill encampment, the implementation of an academic boycott at UQAM, the public disclosure of all collaborations and links with Israel and the abolition of the Quebec-Israel office as well as the abrogation of all inter-state or inter-institutional agreements with Israel.
“As the occupying forces intensify their murderous aggression against Rafah, we, students and workers, refuse to remain silent in the face of the apartheid, genocide and colonial crimes of the State of Israel,” said Leila Khaled, a spokesperson for UPA-UQAM. “We are addressing UQAM, but also the Quebec state and the Canadian state to take action to end their collaboration and complicity with the rogue state.”
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