Pro-Palestinian encampment remains at University of Toronto [Video]

Protesters donned rain ponchos and huddled in tents at a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto on Friday as they faced wet and windy conditions during the second day of a demonstration calling on the school to distance itself from Israel.

The encampment — one of several established at Canadian university campuses in recent days — went up early Thursday morning after students said they breached the fence around an area on the downtown campus known as King’s College Circle.

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The camp remained overnight following an evening rally, and protesters spent part of Friday securing tents and other materials to withstand the wind.

The overnight stay went “quite peacefully,” said Mohammad Yassin, a fourth-year student and one of the protest’s spokespeople. It was a little bit cold but “generally, everyone was in quite high spirits,” he said.

Yassin, who has …