It has been a tense weekend at number of American campuses with pro-Palestinian protests. And now the movement has come to Canada, with Montreal students also refusing to take down tents at McGill University, claiming they'll stay until the school meets their divestment demands. Abigail Bimman reports.
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Leaders of a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto say they are planning to continue camping on campus because the university has not met their demands to disclose ties with the Israeli government and divest from Israeli companies. Kalliope Anvar McCall, a fourth-year student who spoke at the press conference, said the university's offer to study divestment is not enough. (May 13, 2024)
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The province's public safety minister has asked the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team to investigate police actions in clearing pro-Palestinian encampments last week from university grounds in Calgary and Edmonton. "Alberta's government is aware that allegations have been made by campus protest participants related to potential injuries sustained while police were enforcing trespass laws," read an emailed statement from Minister Mike Ellis sent Monday afternoon."We have asked the director o
STORY: All 12 of Gaza's higher education institutions have been destroyed or damaged in seven months of war.And more than 350 teachers and academics have been killed, according to Palestinian official data.Gazans fear Israel's military offensive has inflicted damage to their education system that will long outlast the fighting.Israa Azoum is one of 90,000 Gazan students left stranded, but she's doing what she can to keep learning. The fourth-year medical student volunteers at Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah to help stretched staff deal with waves of patients."I used to worry about my exams, how to understand this subject but now our worries are much greater. We are worried about how would we study, how would we even learn medicine."She studied here - at Gaza City's now destroyed Al Azhar University."I come to hospital everyday at 8am to 8 or 7pm. I never feel tired because that is what I love doing. I love medicine, I love working as a doctor and I don't want to forget what I have learned."Gaza and the occupied West Bank have internationally high literacy levels.But Israel's blockade and repeated rounds of conflict left education fragile and under-resourced.Fahid Al-Hadad, head of Al Aqsa's emergency department, also lectures in medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza, now reduced to rubble."My home was destroyed in this war and even my references and books, it was all destroyed and lost. This was for 10 years or 12 years of medical experience. All of them was lost in one second."Hadad and others say online teaching may help in the interim, but it would need international support, not to mention good internet."So we can rebuild this again, for teaching. Inside Gaza, through online or through anywhere else that we can give it. In a tent even, we are ready, we are ready to give anywhere but much better inside Gaza than outside because don't forget that we are doctors and we are working as medical doctors."In a tent near Khan Younis, pupils take classes on the sand.Schools have also been bombed or turned into shelters for displaced people, leaving about 625,000 school-aged children unable to attend classes.Asmaa al-Astal is a volunteer teacher.“We opened this school because we could see that our children and our friends' children and others were unable to go back to learning – whether they be younger or older – and they used to be advanced students who did well in school. So we opened up this school on a volunteer basis, with private efforts from our brethren in Egypt. Today we are receiving students and we have a very large number of them still waiting, we are unable to cater to all of them."The U.N. estimates that more than 70% of schools in Gaza will need full reconstruction or major rehabilitation after the war.
Protesters against the war between Israel and Hamas were voluntarily taking down their tents in Harvard Yard on Tuesday after university officials agreed to discuss their questions about the endowment, bringing a peaceful end to the kinds of demonstrations that were broken up by police on other campuses. The student protest group Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine said in a statement that the encampment “outlasted its utility with respect to our demands.” Meanwhile, Harvard University interim President Alan Garber agreed to pursue a meeting between protesters and university officials regarding the students’ questions.
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Getty ImagesHarvard University announced Tuesday it had struck a deal with protesters to wind down an on-campus encampment that occupied its iconic Harvard Yard for nearly three weeks. The agreement will see students suspended during the demonstration be reinstated, and university officials have agreed to discuss student questions about a potential divestment from Israel amid its ongoing conflict against Hamas in Gaza. University spokesperson Jonathan Swain told WBUR that those talks will be att
A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers. Seinfeld, whose namesake sitcom was one of the most popular in U.S. television history, was there to receive an honorary doctorate from the university. The stand-up comic turned actor, who stars in the new Netflix movie “Unfrosted,” has publicly supported Israel since it invaded Gaza to dismantle Hamas after the organization attacked the country and killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Following in the footsteps of students at McGill University, Concordia University, and other universities across Canada and North America, some students at the Université du Québec à Montréal have also joined the pro-Palestinian encampment movement. This comes as nearby McGill prepares to go to court to clear the protest camp that has been on its grounds since April 27.
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Jewish and Muslim students at U.S. colleges are exhausted as their academic year comes to a close. Antisemitism and Islamophobia have both spiked on campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the recent anti-war encampments have greatly disrupted student life. “This year has definitely impacted me academically a lot,”…
The director of an international French school that has eight campuses in Canada says there's one thing that's missing from the school's portfolio."We're in all of Canada's regions, except for here in Acadia," Sylvain Olivier, the CEO of LIFPA Don Bosco Halifax, recently told Radio-Canada's La Mouvée in comments translated from French.That will change this September with the opening of a location in Halifax, which will welcome students from ages five to 18, many from France.In a region that's ho
