granting an injunction to clear out the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto. For the university, as well as for Jewish groups, Jewish students, and members of the wider U of T community, there was the obvious: students and their allies had to pack
“In our society we have decided that the owner of property generally gets to decide what happens on the property,” Justice Koehnen wrote, stating the obvious. “If the protesters can take that power for themselves by seizing Front Campus, there is nothing to stop a stronger group from coming and taking the space over from the current protesters. That leads to chaos.”
by the adults at the Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario, who ostensibly have full-time, protected jobs, to defy the injunction and risk academic and legal penalties that could affect their future career prospects. Upon their departure, the students who had occupied King’s College Circle declared victory, as anyone who has spent months sleeping in their shoes for a cause will do. “Let us be clear,” they wrote. “The University of Toronto will disclose its investments, divest from companies profiting from Palestinian suffering and death, and cut ties with academic institutions tied to the Israeli war machine. The question is not if, but when.