Doug Ford's cops can't stop you from fighting for Palestine

Not if you have the courage to keep standing.

In March 2025, pro-Palestine demonstrators march in massive throngs along Yonge Street towards the Israeli Consulate in Toronto, shutting down the entire street for all vehicular traffic. This brings some irony to the “DO NOT BLOCK INTERSECTION” sign. | Copyright © Jake Landau, all rights reserved.

Happy New Year! It’s 2026, and we all have to deal with the exact same bullshit as 2025, but now they’re even more brazen! Aren’t you excited!

On December 30^th, this past Tuesday, Solicitor General of Ontario and PC MPP for York Centre Michael Kerzner penned a public letter to Toronto Chief of Police Myron Demkiw and Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board Shelley Carroll, directing the police to act against the “mob intimidation and harassment” of pro-Palestine protestors, a baseless accusation made without evidence.

Michael Kerzner@TeamKerzner

Today, I issued a letter to the @TorontoPolice Service and the @TPSBoard to clearly outline concerns surrounding the lack of consistent enforcement when it comes to intimidation, harassment and other hate-motivated offences. Our government’s efforts to protect Ontario have been

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Even if there was evidence of improper conduct at pro-Palestine demonstrations, which there is not, the Solicitor General of Ontario designating specific enemies of the provincial government and ordering police to target those enemies specifically is a deep perversion of the democratic order.

The elected government only has the power to write laws, and those laws must remain compliant with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Enforcement of those laws belongs to the police, and police are supposed to enforce those laws evenly, without discrimination or favour.

Canadians have the right to demonstrate publicly under the Charter, and the state cannot abrogate that right simply because they don’t like your specific cause. Events like the Convoy occupation of Ottawa are the exception that proves the rule, as those are seditious movements seeking to overthrow the democratically elected government.

Of course, as someone who not infrequently calls police officers “pigs”, I don’t believe cops actually enforce the law evenly, or that elected governments care about writing laws that follow the Charter. Indeed, on the topic of Israel and Palestine, enforcement is blatantly biased.

On the one hand, activists who splatter red paint on an Indigo bookstore, in protest of Heather Reisman’s financial support of Israeli lone soldiers, find themselves the subject of violent no-knock raids by Toronto Police after Ms. Reisman places a personal call to Police Chief Demkiw.

And on the other hand, when a pro-Israel lunatic tries to run over pro-Palestine protestors with a several-tonne snowplow, Toronto Police refuse to take any action, lying to the public that they received “no complaints” when there is video evidence of them refusing to take complaints from the victims.

So the truth is that Toronto Police will eagerly use violence against those who support Palestine, and defend Zionists who use violence against Palestinians. They have created a system designed to kill those in Toronto who support Palestine, either directly through their own police-issued gun, or by shielding Zionist extremists.

It probably isn’t a surprise to many of you that Solicitor General Kerzner has a personal interest in demanding the police use violence. Remember his riding, York Centre?

That same riding is host to the “Bathurst and Sheppard” protests that he decries in his letter above, and it’s host to a large Jewish population that places pressure on their politicians to say “damn the Charter and damn Palestinians, we will send the police to club you all.” He has a direct political stake in pushing for violence against pro-Palestine protestors, because his electorate demands it and rewards it.

But this is just even more reason for why the protests need to continue. Those who support Palestine must flex their muscle against these authoritarian attempts to stifle freedom. Random elected officials do not get to tell us to stop protesting because it’s not politically convenient for them!

So if Toronto Police try to stop you from marching? You keep marching. If they try to grab one of your fellow protestors? You grab your comrade too, and yank them back to de-arrest them.

And if they try to hurt one of your fellow protestors, if they try to use violence to silence Palestinian voices for the comfort of white colonizers?

You fight back. You have to, because it will only become harder the longer you wait. And if Toronto Police don’t like the idea of people meeting violence with violence?

Well, sow the wind, reap the whirlwind, as they say.