Student-led demonstrators who organized a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto cleared the site after more than 60 days of protest, ahead of a court-ordered deadline to leave Wednesday.
The encampment may be gone, but the solidarity lives on
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Student-led demonstrators who organized a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto cleared the site after more than 60 days of protest, ahead of a court-ordered deadline to leave Wednesday.
The move came a day after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted the school an injunction to tear down the encampment on its property and gave Toronto police the authority to remove and arrest anyone who didn’t comply with the 6 p.m. deadline.
At a news conference just before Wednesday’s deadline, Mohammad Yassin, an encampment organizer and recent graduate, told reporters the decision to leave was made in order to avoid police violence.
Organizers demanded that the university divest from companies profiting from Israel’s offensive in Gaza and end partnerships with Israeli academic institutions they say are complicit in the war.
Roey Stav and David Gurov, two Jewish U of T students who founded a student-led initiative called United Against Antisemitism on campus, said they felt relieved that the encampment was taken down.
In a ruling issued Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Markus Koehnen said the encampment was not violent or antisemitic, but its presence took away the right of the university as property owner to control the space it occupied.
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