Pro-Palestinian protesters erect tents at U of O [Video]

Nearly two dozen tents popped up on the University of Ottawa campus between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning as protesters call on the school to end its investment in companies and organizations with ties to Israel.

What started off as a sit-in earlier this week had become an encampment by late Tuesday when a group called INSAF uOttawa erected tents on the lawn in front of Tabaret Hall at the corner of Laurier Avenue E. and Cumberland Street.

“We’re asking the university to disclose their investments,” said U of O student Sumayya Kheireddine, one of the pro-Palestinian protest organizers.

But she said so far it’s been “radio silence” from the university, she said. 

“The people were upset and they wanted to be heard, and the decision was we’re …