The University of Waterloo in Canada has filed a lawsuit against its students for continuing its pro-Palestine encampment urging the university to disclose and divest from Israel.
According to reports in the Canadian press, administrators were suing the encampment for $1.5m in damages including “trespass[ing], damage to property, intimidation and ejectment”.
The university alleges the student encampment has damaged the school’s reputation, driven up administrative and operational costs for the university and depreciated the university’s property values.
In statement released by organisers of the encampment, Occupy UWaterloo, the student group said it was “incredibly shameful” that the university adminstration had decided “to sue their own student body that’s protesting the university’s complicity in a genocide that’s almost nine months in and has claimed the lives of over 40,000”.
yeah that was damaged well before this encampment but ok.
Or “We’re the UofW, we’ve never cared about students or what they believe in…like never. IF they refuse to be fed to the grinder of a US tech company or refuse to be a research zombie then we couldn’t give two shits about them. We spend what little we can on facilities here and have done so for…well forever, I mean really have you ever been to Dana Porter Library? and we said the quiet thing out loud with property value cause…yeah. Fuck the students and fuck Waterloo and especially fuck those peasants living in Kitchener…just ew.”