Pro-Palestine student protesters say lawsuits, crackdowns won’t deter them

Demonstrators lift a key - a symbol of ongoing Palestinian displacement - at an antiwar protest and encampment at the University of Toronto [Courtesy of Sara Rasikh]

Toronto, Canada – When University of Waterloo student Nicholas Sarweh received an email from the school informing him he was being sued for 1.5 million Canadian dollars ($1.09m), he was certain it was a mistake.

“I thought it said $1,500 and that they had made a typo. But after a while, I just absorbed that it was $1.5 million,” Sarweh, who is in his early 20s, told Al Jazeera.