On Monday, over a thousand Montrealers gathered outside Concordia’s Hall building, many of them students, in a walkout for Palestine.
Speakers called on universities like Concordia and McGill to cut ties with Israel and divest from companies they say are complicit in a genocide in Gaza.
The demonstration was met with the almost-total shutdown of McGill campus and a large police presence throughout downtown.
The demonstration ended around 4:30 pm, after police used tear gas to disperse the crowd outside Pine and Aylmer streets, where a small group of protesters were breaking windows and spraying paint beside the McGill gym. Police Chief Fady Dagher said no arrests were made.
With additional files from Cheï Levesque
