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Alex Ritch is a third-year at McGill University studying political science and international development. He is an editor at McGill's Flux: International Relations Review, and a contributor to various other university publications. He currently lives in Montreal.
In the early morning of July 10, 2024, excavators scooped up tents on the lower field of McGill University. For more than ten weeks, the McGill pro-Palestinian encampment had remained on the institution's doorstep, acting as "a heavily fortified focal point for intimidation and violence."
Continue readingThe establishment and fortification of pro-Palestinian encampments, often funded and organized by malign foreign groups and agents, has turned our Canadian universities, faculties, and students into pawns in a political and religious war using propaganda, terrorism and asymmetric warfare tactics to influence public opinion. These tactics are designed to propagate and incite hatred toward Jewish people, cause economic harm to Israel, and delegitimize the Jewish state’s right to exist. This vicious campaign is a critical issue that has stirred significant debate about the legal limits of protest and the responsibilities of educational institutions.
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