Pro-Palestinian protest ongoing at Concordia University [Video]

The lobby of Concordia University’s Hall Building was flooded with pro-Palestinian protesters Thursday as others gathered and chanted outside the campus in solidarity.

Close to 85,000 students across Quebec voted in favour of a two-day “strike” to boycott classes Thursday and Friday to demand their universities divest from companies they allege have ties with Israel and weapons manufacturers, and for an end to the siege on Gaza.

Students from McGill University and Dawson College joined the protest at Concordia. Dawson cancelled all classes Thursday out of “concerns about the safety of students and employees on the day of the boycott,” though students gathered there to protest before making their way to Concordia.

Standing on the bed of a U-Haul truck, a protest organizer led chants accusing universities of being “complicit in genocide” and demanding they put “students over donor money.”

“Boycott, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” …