Press Release
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) and Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) are horrified by the Quebec government’s and local media’s uncritical reception of CIJA’s “Unlearn it” curriculum, which includes harmful pro-Israel propaganda and is not a useful resource for learning about and addressing antisemitism.
Palestinians and Jewish Unity (PAJU) denounces the political profiling of the SPVM and is concerned about the intimidation and escalation of police forces against the right to demonstrate.
“The request for an injunction is rejected for lack of demonstration of an emergency,” we can read in the decision of judge Chantal Massé, rendered this Wednesday at the Montreal courthouse.
Canadian universities, including McGill University, remain public institutions funded not only by the students who are bravely protesting and asking for accountability but the universities are also funded by public funds. It is therefore imperative that these institutions remain accountable for misuse of public funds in order to fund genocide.
Colonial oppressors cannot expect to have kept their boots on Palestinians’ collective throats for 75 years without there being armed uprisings in defense of the Palestinian dream for freedom. As Nelson Mandela put it, it is the oppressor who determines of resistance of the oppressed. Violence begets violence.
Nelson Mandela, this giant of the 20th century, said that between the oppressor and the oppressed, it is the oppressor who determines the means of resistance of the oppressed.