By Melvyn L. Solmon and Heidi R. Brown

On October 7, Hamas perpetrated the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust, murdering 1,200 Israelis and taking 230 individuals into Gaza as hostages. Days later, 74 Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) law students signed an open letter declaring “Palestinian resistance” to be “fundamentally just.” The letter further denied the existence and legitimacy of the State of Israel, stating it “is not a country.”