How Montreal's "boycott" of Israel turned out to be a non-story

Haaretz21 October 2026, 12:07 UTCPalestine

A motion to end all institutional ties between Montreal and Israel ran into a small problem: it's not clear if such ties actually exist. This anecdote tells a larger story on the theatrics of Israel-Palestine activism

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