The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and his minister of defense Yoav Gallant for war crimes. This only confirms what everyone has known for a long time. But they represent only the tip of the iceberg of an entirely criminal system.

On Saturday May 25, U of T president Meric Gertler delivered an ultimatum to the pro-Palestine encampment on university grounds: clear out or you will be violently removed by Monday morning. In response, the Ontario Federation of Labour responded, stating “If you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” 

Millions of people around the globe collectively reeled in horror on Sunday after an IDF airstrike laid waste to a tent camp for displaced civilians in Rafah, killing at least 45 people.

Yesterday the world’s media was rocked by the surprise news that the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, is seeking arrest warrants for war crimes, against Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, and Yoav Gallant, the Defence Minister.

Here, we publish two eyewitness reports from our comrades who were involved in the encampments in Alberta when the police violently broke them up.

Students at the University of Toronto encampment in solidarity with Palestine faced off against pro-Israel counter-protesters May 8.

The long-planned attack on Rafah has begun. On Monday 6 May, the IDF launched airstrikes on the city and issued calls for the evacuation of around 100,000 Palestinians from its eastern neighbourhoods to the so-called ‘humanitarian zones’ of al-Mawasi towards the coast, and an area west of Khan Younis.

There has been a conspiracy of silence around the real overt racism and extreme violence of the Zionists attacking campuses these past few days.

It is clear that marches, petitions, and letter writing campaigns are not enough. The state has not listened to moral appeals. It needs to be confronted in the language of force.

On Saturday morning, an encampment was set up at McGill University in downtown Montreal. This weekend, thousands of people visited the camp to show their solidarity. Students from McGill, Concordia, UQAM and other campuses are also present.