>Over the past 48 hours, the university leadership has made concerted efforts to engage in open dialogue and reach a mutual resolution with the McGill students involved in the encampment.
>The situation escalated yesterday afternoon with the arrival of external protesters and a significant increase in the number of tents on campus. In the late afternoon/early evening, the McGill students indicated through their lawyers their refusal to engage in discussion and that they intended to remain on campus indefinitely.
>After those discussions failed, we saw evidence of appalling antisemitic rhetoric and behaviours from some at the encampment, which now includes many people from outside McGill. We cannot and will not tolerate this.
>As a result, we have moved onto next steps governed by our operating procedures on demonstrations, protests and occupations, which include efforts to de-escalate before moving to steps that involve police assistance.
>Should the situation evolve further beyond the University’s protocols, we will have a duty to request police support in order to protect the health and safety of all on site.
Comfortable_Deer_209 on
Shocker! Do they have any other cards to play or are they just going to keep calling anyone who’s against genocide “antisemitic”?
AprilsMostAmazing on
These overpaid people have zero brains. Should have just worked with the camp groups to make sure University regulations are being followed. Make it clear as long as it’s peaceful and not hateful it’s fine. Go after hard anyone that is making hateful remarks. This would fizzle out real quick as groups find a new area to hold their protest. Instead it’s going to be a giant police clash that’s going to attract more non campus members
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Since there is a paywall ill post the [actual announcement](https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/article/campus-updates/update-mcgill-29-4-24-17h00-mise-jour-de-mcgill)
>Over the past 48 hours, the university leadership has made concerted efforts to engage in open dialogue and reach a mutual resolution with the McGill students involved in the encampment.
>The situation escalated yesterday afternoon with the arrival of external protesters and a significant increase in the number of tents on campus. In the late afternoon/early evening, the McGill students indicated through their lawyers their refusal to engage in discussion and that they intended to remain on campus indefinitely.
>After those discussions failed, we saw evidence of appalling antisemitic rhetoric and behaviours from some at the encampment, which now includes many people from outside McGill. We cannot and will not tolerate this.
>As a result, we have moved onto next steps governed by our operating procedures on demonstrations, protests and occupations, which include efforts to de-escalate before moving to steps that involve police assistance.
>Should the situation evolve further beyond the University’s protocols, we will have a duty to request police support in order to protect the health and safety of all on site.
Shocker! Do they have any other cards to play or are they just going to keep calling anyone who’s against genocide “antisemitic”?
These overpaid people have zero brains. Should have just worked with the camp groups to make sure University regulations are being followed. Make it clear as long as it’s peaceful and not hateful it’s fine. Go after hard anyone that is making hateful remarks. This would fizzle out real quick as groups find a new area to hold their protest. Instead it’s going to be a giant police clash that’s going to attract more non campus members