Yhaacub Hans says he can’t work. He says he can’t sleep. His thoughts are focused on his family in Gaza and the civilians being killed around them every day.
His only reprieve from this looping mental anguish, he says, comes when he bands together with people who share his pain.
That’s why the Niagara mechanic donned his kaffiyeh and piled his wife, nephews, one-year-old daughter and 65-year-old aunt into his car and drove to what would become the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in Toronto since the Israel-Hamas war broke out Oct. 7.
25K? That’s a lot of Hamas supporters.
Toronto – November 3 – pro-Palestinian protestors swarm around an Aroma cafe and chant “boycott”. Social media campaigners have even called to boycott “What-a-Bagel” – a bagel chain founded by Canadian Jews in 1997. 1/2 #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/5b7NEn02Ef
— Documenting Antisemitism (@AntisemitismCA) November 4, 2023
In the UK …
Everyone repeat after me…
“DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!”
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) November 5, 2023
