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Law Students for Palestine at McGill
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Law Students for Palestine at McGill
@LS4PM
- We are delighted to welcome UN Special Rapporteur, @FranceskAlbs to our campus tomorrow, despite shameless attempts to supress her @mcgillu . So proud of the courageous coalition of organizers from across communities who stand in solidarity against genocide @IndJewishVoices
- When the law and public opinion aren’t on your side, it’s no surprise you’d resort to such desperate, bottom-of-the-barrel tactics to smear an event attended by 300 people and met with several standing ovations. Pathetic actions from someone so utterly pathetic. @FranceskAlbs
- Replying to @LS4PM9/ We condemn a university that is unaccountable to its community and that fails to provide spaces for learning and sharing ideas. We condemn attempts to silence voices that stand fiercely against genocide.
- Replying to @LS4PM8/ Why is hosting a world-renowned legal scholar to discuss pressing international law issues at the law faculty met with such interference? Forcing this vital conversation out of the Faculty of Law is a serious affront to its legacy.
- Academic repression.
- we love to see it!
- Replying to @LS4PM1/ On Nov 1, 2024, Neil Oberman sent a letter to McGill's President Deep Saini, with Dean Leckey CC'd, demanding the cancellation of our event with the Rapporteur. The letter was filled with factual errors and had no legal merit.
- Replying to @LS4PM5/ After pressure from students and faculty alike, the administration walked back its outrageous claims, but attempted at the last-minute to relocate the event to a smaller venue in a busier area of campus, seemingly increasing security risks rather than mitigating them.
- Replying to @LS4PM7/ We held our ground on the original location despite veiled threats of disciplinary action for "unauthorized use of university space." Refusing to engage with an administration acting in bad faith, we're now hosting the event at a new location on campus.
- Replying to @LS4PM4/ Over the weekend, we continued to press the administration to explain their decision, stressing that our event was central to McGill’s mission of fostering free exchange of ideas on public matters.
- Replying to @LS4PM3/ These conditions included rescheduling our in-person event to 7:30 PM or moving it entirely online—clearly an attempt to cancel the event. No daytime academic speaker would agree to such last-minute changes.
- Replying to @LS4PM2/ At 12:11 PM that day, shortly after the letter was received, the Dean imposed arbitrary and onerous conditions for the event, citing vague safety concerns from the University’s Rapid Response Group.
