In Canada, the Montreal City Council passed a resolution in solidarity with Palestinians on Monday, after councilors removed much of the motion’s original language, which included calls to suspend institutional and diplomatic ties with Israel. The original provision would have also seen the city of Montreal officially recognize and denounce Israel’s assault on Gaza as a “genocide” and its treatment of Palestinians as “apartheid.” This is Alex Norris, a Projet Montréal city councillor who co-sponsored the motion.

Alex Norris: “One reason Gaza has had such an impact is that we have watched it unfold in real time. On our phones and on our screens, we have seen civilians attacked. We have seen neighborhoods erased. We have even seen perpetrators celebrating what they have done. That is why Gaza has been so often described as the world’s first live-stream genocide. What Israel has done in Gaza and the role Western governments have played in enabling it has become one of the defining moral tests of our time. Today, this council has the opportunity to say, 'Enough.'”