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The Toronto met uni has a student pro Israel organization that hosted IDF soldiers in a school sanctioned private event. Protestors naturally protested by forcing their way into an event and one person broke a glass door. Here's a video from it all attached to the post.

This was after the Idf soldier already trapped a few students inside with them and after the soldier had enough he grabbed Canadians and dragged them across the floor while their bodies hit against hardwood furniture and threw them through broken glass when those protestors had been entirely peaceful too.

The cops did not charge the IDF soldier Jonathan Karten but found it in them to arrest 5 different protestors after throwing them to the ground in the subway quite awhile later. A completely violent response in defense of a literal war criminal who treated female students like ragdolls and dragged them around before throwing them through broken glass. This is an extremely disturbing scene and seeing this play out while the school supports the soldier is deeply unsettling.

if you want to make any sort of statement toward the school about distaste with the matter global@torontomu.ca seems to be their most clearly documented email address. I have written them an email and you can use my premade email with this mailto link, and you can add anything you'd like or remove anything and sign your name if you'd like. You may need to copy the link itself since lemmy is being a bit weird about it since it has spaces between paragraphs.

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[โ€“] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for sharing this. What shameful and disgusting behaviour by the university

[โ€“] Jumpropegazing@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

happy to share, its important people make their voices heard