McGill has always been on the wrong side of history

McGill has always been on the wrong side of history

Are major institutions so afraid of being seen as critical of Israel – or worse, promoting peace – that they are literally cutting down trees?

McGill did just thatremoving a white pine sapling – a symbol of indigenous people depicted on Montreal’s flag – planted in the name of peace on the site where the pro-Palestinian camp stood for more than two months last spring.

Forget reconciliation — or even reforestation — McGill says Indigenous activists “have not been given permission” to plant a peace tree on what the university considers “unceded Indigenous territory.”

Some would argue that this shows McGill’s hypocrisy; I think it shows consistency: McGill has always been on the wrong side of history.

His students, for the most partdon’t have.

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