The anti-Palestinian collusion on display the last month runs very, very deep. It probably plays into the mythology of (just) colonialism that countries like Canada were founded on, that US foreign/immigration policy is predicated on, etc. The only positive I can take away from all of this is that this incident has sensitized me (a white-Canadian in their 30s) to the enormous consequences and injustice of ethnocultural privilege and marginalization more than any other world event that I've lived through has