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STUDENT McGill University in Canada has also set up a camp to defend Palestine.

Students said their fears were allayed when the camp took over public space to defend Palestinians.

Report of Al JazeeraFarrah, one of the students among the protesters, was sitting on a bench in the heart of the McGill University campus.

Farrah said she and her fellow student protesters wanted their school to listen to them.

Less than a week ago, students from McGill and other Montreal universities set up dozens of tents on the McGill campus to denounce Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip and demand that their universities divest from any company complicit in Israeli abuses.

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They are part of a growing student protest movement that gained international attention last month after demonstrations in the United States.

The movement shows no signs of slowing down and is making international headlines as the Israeli offensive on Gaza continues.

“Montreal campuses came together to do this,” said Farrah, who asked to use a pseudonym for fear of reprisal.

About 75 tents were set up in a field just steps from the university’s main entrance in downtown Montreal, Canada’s second-largest city.

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Canadian McGill University students help establish camp to defend Palestine

Many supporters came throughout the day to bring equipment and words of encouragement.

“You are financing the genocide,” could be read on the fence around the camp, covered with Palestinian flags and large banners.

“We won’t stop until you divest,” wrote another.

“We may just be a group of people, but we understand that we have support and are part of a movement that spans the world. “We’re not the only ones fighting for the right thing,” Farrah, 21, said.

Just hours after the Montreal camp was established, MP Anthony Housefather, one of the most pro-Israeli voices in the Canadian Parliament, urged the university administration to disperse the demonstration.

McGill President Deep Saini said in an email to students and staff that the university had requested help from Montreal police to remove the encampment.[Sdz]