A group of pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted a University of Windsor senate meeting last week has set up an encampment on campus, requesting supplies as they dig in until administrators answer their demands. The demonstrations began Thursday with protesters calling for university administration to financially divest from organizations that benefit or support Israel. “We’re not […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an attempted occupation of a school building at the neighboring University of Pennsylvania campus. After several hundred demonstrators marched from Philadelphia’s City Hall to west Philadelphia […]
A pro-Palestinian encampment at Queen's University in Kingston was set up on May 10. Since then, the university has called out what it says were aggressive acts.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Thursday marks day five of the encampment set up at the Burke Science building field at McMaster University. McMaster University’s academic vice president says the university has received a “confrontational” letter from the group that set up the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. The university says they received the letter on Wednesday. READ MORE: McMaster pro-Palestinian […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Police began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school's president told students to leave the area or face arrest. Officers and workers in yellow vests cleared out tents at the student encampment as front-loaders removed the camping equipment. Across the street from where the []
Police began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area or face arrest. Officers and workers in yellow vests cleared out tents and camping equipment at the student encampment, leaving behind yellow squares of dead or dying grass where the tents […]
McGill says the encampment poses a 'security, safety and public health risk.' Protesters want the university to divest from Israel-connected funds.
Edmonton police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Alberta early Saturday morning.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Dozens of high school students made their way to McMaster University Wednesday afternoon, to show their support for the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. It’s been 10 days since tents were set up behind the Burke Science Building — there’s now around 60 of them. And a few extra people on Wednesday as students from high […]
A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused McGill University's request for an injunction to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been set up on its downtown Montreal campus since late April. Justice Marc St-Pierre ruled Wednesday that the school did not prove the situation at the encampment was sufficiently urgent to justify the measure. In a written decision, he said the case also raises questions of conflicting rights — in this case, the protesters' freedom of expression...
Pro-Palestinian protesters at McGill University have become "occupiers" living in a fortified and barricaded mini-village, a lawyer for the Montreal school argued on Monday as he asked for an injunction to dismantle the more than two-week-old encampment on its downtown campus. As lawyers for the encampment members defended the right to protest, McGill lawyer Jacques Darche maintained the encampment presents a health and safety risk and is preventing McGill from holding convocation ceremonies...