Dear Free Press Re: “Bubble zones sought after protests clash over Hamas” AKA “Pro-Palestinian protest at Jewish campus sparks call for safety-zone legislation” Thank you for changing the headline of Chris Kitching’s article on the event by Students Supporting Israel at the Asper Community Campus. The body of the article raises good questions about the appropriateness of protesting religious spaces. However, even after the removal of the gross mischaracterization from the headline, the second paragraph of the article gratuitously invokes Hamas, biasing the discussion. Why does the article prominently invoke memory of the violent and cruel attack on October 7, 2023, without any mention of the more salient point that the event that raised the discussion platformed soldiers of the army that has been committing a genocide for more than 500 days? (The Rome Statute, of which Canada is a signatory, defines war crimes and genocide and other states’ obligations not to participate in or...
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