What happened outside Mount Sinai Hospital as a pro-Palestine rally passed by?
What happened outside Mount Sinai Hospital as a pro-Palestine rally passed by?
A 21-second clip from a nearly four-hour rally became national news. Here we piece together what happened at the rally and afterwards.
Fuck Israel.
Is that directed at the people, the government, or both?
Is that directed at the people
Did they say "Fuck Israelis"? You have to be either really thin-skinned to take offense to "Fuck insert country here", or you support the thing that's being criticized (which in this case is genocide).
Like, I'm Canadian, and when First Nations people say "Fuck Canada" because of the centuries of oppression and genocide they've faced, I don't take personal offense because I do not support the genocide of First Nations people. They're right, fuck Canada.
no one talking about the fact that coverage of this situation was entirely falsified to make it seem like they protested at the hospital when they only just walked by it during their march
Fuck the Israeli government.
Part of getting anti-abortion protests away from hospitals was that we have no protests at hospitals
I imagine it’s the same people in both but how long until they learn to avoid hospitals?
Seems like it might be a bit more nuanced than that. From the article:
There is a federal law, C-3, which deems it an offence for anyone who “intentionally obstructs or interferes with another person’s lawful access to a place at which health services are provided by a health professional.” As far as I saw while I was passing the hospital, the entranceway was clear and no one was stopped from entering or exiting the building. Other than vague mentions, I found no specific evidence that people were prevented from entering or exiting the building.
Update, Feb. 15, 11:06 a.m.: It has come to our attention that the University Ave. entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital closes at 6 p.m. daily. The protest passed by the hospital around 8 p.m., two hours after that entrance had closed. See the bottom of the map below for the University Ave. entrance hours, accessed today from the Mount Sinai Hospital website.
So this may not have broken those laws. There was apparently an incident where the crowd blocked the car of a doctor that was trying to drive home, so perhaps some more care needed to be taken, but I think everyone's just really on edge right now and looking for things to get angry about.
We have this for no protests within 50m of entrances