Toronto. While the 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 arrested hundreds of people at universities across the United States, while the number of dead In Loop increase.
Although the the university there was required there intervention of the policethe police did not intervene on Thursday to evacuate the camp.
Students also hold camps at other Canadian centers, such as the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa.
University of Toronto students set up camp on a fenced-in grassy area of the university's downtown campus on Thursday morning, 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 press release from the organizers, the camp will remain until the university makes public their investmentsbe detached from whoever “holds the Israeli apartheidthe occupation and illegal colonization of Palestine” and put END has associations with a certain establishments academic Israelis.
Israel says it does not participate in apartheid and that its attack on Gaza does not constitute genocide.
A university spokesperson told Reuters that it was “in dialogue with the protesters” and that as of midday the camp was “not disrupting normal university operations.”
Sara Rasikh, a University of Toronto graduate student and spokesperson for the camp, told Reuters that will stay there until respond to their requests.
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