Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, July 5, 2024 – Today, at 5 a.m., riot police from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) surrounded the popular Al-Soumoud encampment. They then forcibly evicted all the campers, destroying part of the camp’s facilities in the process.
Rather than cease their complicity with the ongoing genocide in Gaza and listen to the voices of the street, our institutions have chosen their camp: that of repression. They are trying to stifle any political voice calling for concrete action, refusing to accept their responsibilities and stubbornly endorsing Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.
The Désinvestir pour la Palestine collective denounces the dismantling of the popular Al-Soumoud encampment by the Ville de Montréal and the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). This police action violates our right to freedom of expression and our right to demonstrate. It constitutes an attack on the very values of democracy and justice.
The dismantling of the camp does not mean the end of our mobilization. We will not be intimidated by institutions complicit in human rights violations and by Zionist groups! The intifada will continue until Palestine is liberated. We will continue to make our voices heard everywhere and by any means necessary. We will not stop mobilizing as long as our institutions remain complicit in a genocide that has been going on for 9 months, with over 40,000 martyrs and more than 80,000 wounded.
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) still has 14.2 billion invested in 87 companies linked to violations of international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people. The Quebec government continues to maintain the opening of a Quebec office in Israel. We say: shame on you!
Let’s intensify the struggle in every corner of the Empire!
Let’s paralyze the system for as long as necessary!
From Turtle Island to free Palestine, let’s divest from genocide!
References
List of 87 companies – Mouvement pour une paix juste as of December 31, 2023
Summary of the 87 corporate accomplices
