A Quebec Superior Court judge has granted McGill University a provisional injunction that bars disruptive protest on or within 5 metres of its campus for a period of 10 days.
The Oct. 8 judgment comes a day after a student walkout for Palestine ended in tear gas from the police, and the vandalism of a trio of McGill buildings by an independent group of demonstrators.
The injunction applies to anyone with knowledge of the order, but specifically names Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance (SPHR), the main pro-Palestine group on campus and one of the groups behind the pro-Palestine encampment earlier this year. SPHR declined to comment when reached by CKUT.
McGill told the campus community in an email that a week of planned protest by SPHR “clearly violates the fundamental academic rights of students, instructors, and all McGillians.” Judge Babak Barin agreed, but Hugo-Victor Solomon, vice-president external of McGill’s undergraduate student society (SSMU), told CKUT the injunction risked infringing students’ rights.
