{"id":6710,"date":"2025-10-08T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:01:53","slug":"newsbrief-8-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/newsbrief-8-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsbrief (8.10.2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concordia University closed its downtown Montreal campus yesterday, to deal with \u201cthreats of extreme disruption,\u201d and President\u2013Vice-Chancellor Graham Carr says the decision relates to the arrest of two people who helped disrupt a class and midterm exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students for Palestine\u2019s Honour and Resistance and Academics &amp; Staff for Palestine gave advance notice, protestors would gather at the Hall building, claiming President Carr tries to portray students as \u2018dangerous,\u2019 while his administration \u201c&#8230;supports the flow of weapons to Israel that have violently murdered the students of Gaza, destroying every university\u201d and are \u201c&#8230;fed up with the zionists and imperialists in Carr\u2019s administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied on one side of the street as a counter-protest of pro-Israeli supporters gathered on the other side, each yelling at the other and throughout the afternoon thousands of people had gathered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Mcgill university, an Israeli flag was burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel\u2019s foreign ministry called the protests \u201cshameful\u201d; \u201c&#8230;Concordia University student groups are organizing a rally this October 7, celebrating the massacre and atrocities committed by Palestinians, glorifying terrorism under the banner of resistance\u201d and \u201d&#8230;celebrating murder, rape and the kidnapping of innocent civilians, carried out by Hamas terrorists, under the protection of a Canadian university. 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