The Jerusalem Post reports: “Quebec was flooded with pro-Palestine protests on Thursday as 85,000 students across 13 university campuses went on strike for two days to demand their universities divest in Israel.

According to one of the organizing groups – Coalition de résistance pour l’unité étudiante syndicale (CRUES) – the strikes were designed to coincide with the opening of the NATO conference in Montreal. CRUES accused Nato of refusing aid to Palestinians, and of approving of ‘the ongoing genocide.’

The main protest took place in Concordia University in Montreal, but was joined by students from McGill and Dawson college. The latter cancelled all classes on Thursday out of ‘concerns about the safety of students and employees on the day of the boycott,’ Canadian news reported…”