Universities across Montreal are bracing for a tense Tuesday as thousands of students prepare to walk out of classes and hold demonstrations marking two years since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Student associations at McGill and Concordia, along with several CEGEPs and other Montreal universities, have voted to strike in protest of Israel’s actions and to pressure their institutions to shift investments from companies linked to Israel.

About 60 student groups representing tens of thousands of students have voted to strike, according to the Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC), though that assumes all those covered by strike mandates take part.

At McGill, for example, 9,190 students out of roughly 25,000 eligible voters c

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