Concordia University Closes Downtown Campus Ahead Of Oct. 7 Protests - Beritaja

Concordia University has closed each in-person classes astatine its downtown Montreal field up of protests connected the 2nd day of the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught successful Israel.

University president Graham Carr says the threat of “extreme disruption” is excessively precocious to run normally, pinch hundreds of protesters expected astatine the field this afternoon.

Thousands of Montreal students voted to spell connected a two-day onslaught arsenic portion of a week of action successful support of the Palestinian people.

Carr says 2 group were arrested Monday aft the disruption of a people and midterm exam, and 1 was allegedly successful possession of a metallic barroom and respective incendiary devices.

He says this is the first clip the assemblage has had to return specified measures since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas.

Multiple pro-Palestinian demonstrations are planned successful Montreal today, including astatine the assemblage campus.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 7, 2025.