Montreal ​​Police Arrest 15, Use Tear Gas, as Pro-Palestine Protestors Occupy McGill University Building

Montreal police used tear gas to disband demonstrators and arrested 15 people on June 6 after masked protestors occupied the main administration building at McGill University. The arrests came after demonstrators barricaded themselves in the James Administration Building on the third floor of McGill University’s downtown campus in what the protestors described as a “global call to action.” The occupation was a bid to “escalate for Rafah,” according to a social media post by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill, a student group participating in the encampment. Rafah is the southern Gaza city where Israel is carrying out an offensive against terrorist entity Hamas....