With most campus pro-Palestinian encampments gone, protesters look to the future
MONTREAL — The protest encampment at McGill University was the first of its kind in the country, and its dismantling this week has left activists and observers wondering what comes next for the pro-Palestinian movement in Canada.
Protesters at McGill are promising to continue putting pressure on the university to end its investments connected to Israel’s military and cut ties with Israeli institutions in response to the war in the Gaza Strip.
“We will make McGill divest. We will make all complicit institutions divest,” said Eric Rogers, who said he was “forcibly removed” Wednesday from the lower field of McGill’s downtown Montreal campus, on which dozens of tents had been set up since late April.
“Even if it is the end of the encampment, it’s nowhere close to the end of the movement.”