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Pro-Palestinian encampment coming to the University of Manitoba next week (CTV News Winnipeg)

The three-day event will be hosted by U of M students advocating for justice in Palestine in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Organizers are asking participants to stand together “in solidarity with land defenders globally.”

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May 04, 2024

Pro-Palestinian encampment planned for U of Manitoba campus (CBC News Manitoba)

Organizers want university to divest from groups with ties to Israel

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May 03, 2024

Terry Glavin: Finally, a terrorist sympathizer is arrested (National Post)

After everything that has happened since October 7, it might not have been the worst way to begin Jewish Heritage Month in Canada. Following on 207 days of bloodcurdling antisemitic incitements, attacks on synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses, and lurid public celebrations of the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, an arrest has been made.

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May 03, 2024

Proposal to teach Palestinian history in schools faces backlash (CBC)

Nakba noticeably absent from teaching, proponents say; Jewish group says inclusion would 'delegitimize Israel'

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May 02, 2024

Proposal to teach Palestinian history in schools faces backlash (CBC News British Columbia)

Nakba noticeably absent from teaching, proponents say; Jewish group says inclusion would 'delegitimize Israel'

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May 02, 2024

Quebec court won't order removal of McGill anti-Israel protest encampment (National Post)

Montreal police have yet to act, but one Jewish advocacy organization says that 'the situation continues to escalate'

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May 01, 2024

Police arrest woman who praised Hamas attack at Vancouver protest (CTV News Vancouver)

Authorities have arrested a 44-year-old woman who praised last October's attack on Israel during a rally in downtown Vancouver.

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May 01, 2024

Vancouver police arrest pro-Hamas woman who chanted 'Long live October 7 (The Jerusalem Post)

Police said that they had arrested the 45-year-old woman, and while Kates has been released, authorities are conducting a criminal investigation.

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May 01, 2024

Vancouver police made an arrest based on a viral video of a woman praising terrorists—a few days before she was spotted at the encampment at UBC (The Canadian Jewish News)

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) announced on Wednesday, May 1, that it had arrested a 44-year-old woman, who, during a rally on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery the previous week, praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel—and referred to several terrorist organizations as heroes.

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May 01, 2024