This week’s anti-Israel protest at Parliament Hill’s Confederation Building highlighted the consequences of our political leadership’s failure to confront the deepening divisions within Canadian society over the Israel-Palestine conflict, as radical voices found their way to the very doorstep of those in power. The protest, ending with arrests, was a visible expression of the divisions taking root in Canadian society—a needless polarization fed by the kind of equivocation we’ve seen from our political leaders.
