On May 9, Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance (SPHR) at McGill hosted a gathering to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Montreal community members establishing the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on McGill’s Lower Field. 743 days later, community members of all ages met for a potluck, arts-and-crafts, and a letter-writing campaign[Read More…]
Tag: Divestment
Students organize events and rallies during Shut It Down departmental strikes for Palestine
From Nov. 17 to Nov. 21, 20 departments at McGill went on strike, calling for the university to divest from companies complicit in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. These departmental strikes, organized by Divest McGill, Divest for Palestine, Working Alternatives McGill, and McGill Admin Watch, occurred alongside programming put together by[Read More…]
Sudan’s genocide is fueled by global and local apathy toward Black lives
In April 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group descended into a civil war. Since then, both groups have executed large-scale massacres and targeted ethnic cleansing against Black, non-Arab ethnic groups, such as the Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa peoples. This genocide—enabled by a[Read More…]
The Tribune Explains: Departmental strikes for Palestine
In the November 2023 Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) Fall Referendum, 78.7 per cent (5,974 voters) of SSMU constituents voted in favour of the Policy Against Genocide in Palestine. Undergraduates also voted to go on strike for Palestine through the SSMU in April 2025 and October 2025. Now, in[Read More…]
From campus to City Hall: Students campaign for the Montreal Anti-Apartheid Pledge
The Montreal Anti-Apartheid Pledge is a citizen-led campaign, backed by a multitude of civil society groups, to pressure those running in the Montreal municipal elections that took place on Nov. 2 to sign a set of six demands with the aim of ending Montreal’s complicity in Israeli apartheid against Palestinians. [Read More…]
SSMU-hosted municipal debate cancelled after protests from audience
On Oct. 27, the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) hosted a debate in the University Centre Ballroom between representatives from four Montreal parties that competed in the municipal election: Ensemble Montréal, Futur Montréal, Projet Montréal, and Transition Montréal. Angela Campbell, professor in the Faculty of Law and Interim Deputy[Read More…]
Thousands fight for Palestine during Oct. 7 student rally and strikes for divestment
A sea of demonstrators in red, white, black, and green chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” at the Montreal student rally for Palestine on Oct. 7. Commencing outside of Concordia University’s Henry F. Hall Building at 1:00 p.m., thousands of university and CEGEP students and[Read More…]
BREAKING: McGill faculty pass historic resolution supporting academic and cultural boycott of Israel
On Oct. 10, 2025, the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT), which represents full-time professors and librarians, passed the Resolution to Endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel—marking the first official collective action for Palestine taken by McGill faculty to date. The motion, introduced by ten professors across multiple[Read More…]
McGill, your students condemn genocide—so must you.
Today, Oct. 7, 2025, McGill students are striking in support of Palestinian liberation. On Sept. 29, the Students Society of McGill University (SSMU) held a Special Strike General Assembly (GA), in which Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance (SPHR) presented a motion calling for a strike for divestment. Students exceeded[Read More…]
SSMU General Assembly votes for motion to strike on Oct. 7 for divestment from genocide
Over 500 students gathered in person and over Zoom at the Sept. 29 Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU)’s Fall General Assembly (GA) to vote on a motion to strike on Oct. 7 for McGill’s divestment from Israel’s genocide. The one-day solidarity strike motion calls on McGill to accept the[Read More…]