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minimum 150 students at the University of Toronto (Canada) Early this Thursday morning they installed camp in protest against the ongoing Israeli bombing against A loop. Students who

Video |  Pro-Palestinian student camp at the University of Toronto

minimum 150 students at the University of Toronto (Canada) Early this Thursday morning they installed camp in protest against the ongoing Israeli bombing against A loop.

Students who pitched fifty tents in the center of the university also demand that the University of Torontoone of the most important in Canada and North America, cancel your investment in Israel.

Erin, a University of Toronto student acting as a spokesperson for the protesters, said: EFE What They have no plans to retire, although the rector sent them a letter demanding that they leave. protested and dismantled the camp until 22:00 local time on Thursday.

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“We demand that the University of Toronto stop investing in apartheid Israel.”

“We demand that the University of Toronto end its investment in apartheid Israel and end its complicity in the occupation of Palestine,” the protester said.

“They want us to leave before 10 p.m., but we’re not going to do that. Many of us here are prepared, and many of us in the community are ready to mobilize.

“It’s time The University of Toronto will do the right thing.“added the student representative.

Erin mentioned the situation in the United States, where police and pro-Israel groups acted violently against protesters at the country’s universities.

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“University of Toronto chooses to threaten violence” against students

“The University of Toronto is choosing the threat of violence, the threat of police intervention, rather than doing what they must do to end the camp: cancel their investment in Israel.”

As in the United States, students at numerous Canadian universities staged protests last week against the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Since the beginning of the conflict on October 7, Israeli troops have At least 35 thousand people were killed, mostly women and minors.

On May 1, a Quebec provincial judge refused to order the eviction of a student camp set up at McGill University in Montreal that had been established there six days earlier in favor of Palestine and against Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip. (EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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