University sues participants of pro-Palestinian encampment

Canada’s University of Waterloo is suing the participants and organisers of the pro-Palestinian encampment on its main campus for CA$1.5 million (US$1 million), writes Mark Douglas for Kitchener City News.

The court document published on the university’s website says the school is seeking “damages in the amount of CA$1,500,000, including damages for trespass, damage to property, intimidation, and ejectment”. The suit names “persons unknown” and seven specific people by name, and includes their email addresses. The document calls on the encampment participants to stop camping and never do so again on campus. Also, it directs defendants to restore the school’s property to the way it was on 12 May, including removal of all fences, tents, shelters, barriers, rubbish and more.

A social media post from the encampment says: “Incredibly shameful that @UWaterloo is choosing to sue their own student body protesting their university’s complicity in a genocide that’s 9 months in and has claimed the lives of over 40,000.” The post goes on to say: “History will absolve us. But you admin, how will you be remembered?”
Full report on the Kitchener City News site