This Sunday in Toronto, thousands of people are scheduled to take part in a walk to demonstrate support for the people of Israel and raise money for those who have suffered from the Oct. 7 terror attack. The mayor, Olivia Chow, should walk alongside them.
Walking on Sunday would be a way of making amends. . This year’s trek takes walkers five kilometres along Bathurst Street. It ends with a feel-good rally featuring rappers, DJs, food and drink. The money raised will go to help families displaced and people traumatized by the Hamas attack.. New York just held a similar walk. Among the participants was Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader.
In the past few months they have witnessed not just the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust, not just the kidnapping, abuse and prolonged confinement of all those people taken from southern Israel, some with ties to Canada, not just the surge in hate crimes and all the accompanying echoes of a dark past, but a months-long string of demonstrations and occupations by protesters who often portray Israel as a brutal, colonialist, even racist, power that has only itself to blame for Oct.