The Link, 16 September 2025: "On Aug. 18, Regards Palestiniens, Academics and Staff for Palestine Concordia, and the collective Stop Artwashing released a statement advocating for the full boycott of the gallery."Regards Palestiniens
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The Link reported on 16 September 2025 that Regards Palestiniens, with two other groups, released a statement on 18 August 2025 advocating for the full boycott of Concordia University's Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
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Evidence
5 itemsYesterday, Monday, August 18, 2025, artists featured in the upcoming Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery Montreal screening, "À défaut d'une image", withdrew their work. The screening was canceled. Their decision was made in protest against the use of their work to artwash Concordia University's suppression of Palestine solidarity at the Gallery and on campus.to collectively call on the Canadian government to cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade AgreementBDS Movement, 2021-01-07, "Artists and academics in Montréal oppose the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement": signatories "call on the Canadian government to cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement" [Organizational endorsers: "Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrants / Immigrant Workers Centre"]The militant reaction from Palestinians in Gaza on October 7, 2023, is a result of decades of cruel and oppressive treatment.



