McGill asks police for help as pro-Palestinian encampment enters 4th day – Police say ‘no crime is being committed’ at the encampment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-asks-police-for-help-as-pro-palestinian-encampment-enters-fourth-day-1.7189054
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I’m finding it very difficult to form a strong, and informed, opinion on this whole Israel/Palestine situation. I don’t see any side, or eventual outcome, that I would like to see. It’s hard to have an opinion about this at all, without *some* cognitive dissonance. I hate seeing, hearing, and reading about it; it just seems like more and more crap every time.
That never stops police from arresting people and releasing them the next day with no charges at protests in my city.
The unwarranted Columbia crackdown backfired pretty badly and led to an explosion of sympathy protests, expect McGill’s heavy handed tactics and rush to put the students in their care in physical danger to have the same effect.
These protests would be the easiest thing in the world to safely ignore but respectable society can’t stomach the next generation seeing through their complicity.
They’re clearly trespassing so I disagree with the “no crime is being committed” but Canadian cops have recently taken a pretty clear stance that they won’t do anything against protesters unless public opinion or an injunction forces them to.
McGill accepted the reality that it is built on unceded Kanien’keha:ka land that is legally theirs, and their council has supported the encampment and have given them the right to stay. If they weren’t just virtue signalling about their admission of whose land it really should be and actually want to support First Nations and fight for their rights, then they should accept the encampment. Progressivism seems to only be permitted in liberal institutions until it stands in the way of colonial interests.
So that’s the two cards that McGill had (call them antisemites in hopes that the bad PR shames them enough to leave and call the cops to come in and bust heads) and they’ve played them both. I wonder what comes next.