Pro-Palestine campus encampment dismantled after 110 days

A pro-Palestinian encampment at Vancouver Island University (VIU) was dismantled on Sunday morning, 18 August, 72 hours after the British Columbia (BC) Supreme Court granted the university an injunction ordering its removal, reports CBC News.

Protesters had until 9.30 am to clear the encampment filled with tents, tarpaulins and signs, which had occupied the campus quadrangle in Nanaimo, BC for more than 100 days. As university workers dressed in hazmat suits began dismantling the site, student protester Sara Kishawi criticised VIU’s decision to seek a court order rather than engaging in dialogue with its students.

The encampment at VIU was one of many that sprang up on campuses in both Canada and the United States in response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, with participants demanding universities cut financial and academic ties with firms and institutions linked to Israel. Similar protest encampments in BC were vacated this summer at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia.
Full report on the CBC News site