Concordia University announced Tuesday morning that it cancelled downtown campus classes for the day, citing safety concerns as hundreds of demonstrators are expected to gather in the city on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks.

“The threat of extreme disruption is simply too high to operate as usual,” university president Graham Carr wrote in an email to students.

Montrealers are expected to mark the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel with protests, amid continued tensions over the deadly war in Gaza that followed the assault by Hamas.

Carr said that while the university has seen protests on campus over the last two years, they’ve never been forced to enact such preventive measures.

“That changed yesterday after two individuals were arrested following the disr

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