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McGill University is dismantling the anti-Israel encampment that has been occupying its campus for weeks, while protesters at the University of Ottawa are ending their encampment voluntarily.

National Post columnist Barbara Kay joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss the concerning displays of antisemitism on university campuses, and address the silence from Jewish studies programs.

Montreal police announced an investigation into the McGill encampment’s  “revolutionary” youth summer camp with lessons on “Islamic resistance” and a poster showcasing Palestinian militants brandishing machine guns. 

Pro-Hamas McGill encampment organizers will be running a “revolutionary” summer camp for youth that will include a lesson on “Islamic resistance.” 

Montreal-based Jewish advocate Ysabella Hazan spoke out after being removed from the McGill anti-Israel encampment by police last week while attempting to have a peaceful dialogue with protesters.

The Montreal police were criticized for removing peaceful Jewish advocates from the McGill University anti-Israel encampment.

McGill University’s request for an injunction to dismantle an encampment of anti-Israel activists from its campus was rejected by a Quebec Superior Court judge. 

More radical anti-Israel encampments have been set up on Canadian university campuses, including at the University of Toronto and the University of Victoria.

A pro-Palestinian student organizer affiliated with an anti-Israel encampment occupying McGill University’s campus is refusing to condemn Hamas and its Oct. 7 attack on Israel or call for the return of hostages still held captive after nearly seven months.

The McGill University pro-Hamas student group, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill, which openly praised the Oct. 7 attack against Israel as “heroic” while celebrating the launching of rockets and taking of hostages, has been ordered to stop using the university’s name.