Pro-Palestinian activists who have camped on campus grounds at McGill University in downtown Montreal since April say the institution’s latest offer falls far short of what would be needed to convince them to leave.
Several groups involved in the encampment issued a joint statement calling the latest offer “laughable” and an “immaterial response” to their demands.
McGill released a new offer Monday including a proposal to review its investments in weapons manufacturers and grant amnesty to students participating in the encampment.
The university argued that it also offered to disclose more investments, this time to include investments of less than $500,000, and to support Palestinian students displaced by the war in the Gaza Strip.
Members of the encampment say the McGill administration continues to delay taking substantive divestment steps and that the university’s latest offer contains no concrete plans to sever ties with Israeli institutions.
Activists say their demands are simple, starting with the immediate reallocation of funds from investments in companies linked to the Israeli military.