A senior Palestinian doctor has died inside an Israeli prison after being held in detention for more than four months, a Palestinian prisoners’ association said.Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of orthopedics at Al Shifa Hospital – Gaza’s largest medical facility.He was arrested along with 10 other medical workers by Israeli forces while treating patients at Al-Awada Hospital in north Gaza, the part of the Strip which Israel’s incessant missile strikes have completely flattened.The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society called his death an “assassination”, saying it was part of “a systematic targeting process against physicians and the health care system in Gaza”.Al-Bursh’s body has not yet been released by Israeli authorities.

“The request for an injunction is rejected for lack of demonstration of an emergency,” we can read in the decision of judge Chantal Massé, rendered this Wednesday at the Montreal courthouse.

Canadian universities, including McGill University, remain public institutions funded not only by the students who are bravely protesting and asking for accountability but the universities are also funded by public funds. It is therefore imperative that these institutions remain accountable for misuse of public funds in order to fund genocide.

The support of so-called progressive institutions, media, and politicians for violent state repression is becoming increasingly explicit in response to mass mobilizations around Palestine solidarity. One of the most alarming local moments was the political-class consolidation around the demonstrable lie that a pro-Palestinian rally, including an anonymous climbing Spiderman, was specifically targeting Mt. Sinai Hospital. This false claim was repeated and uncontested on this panel and promoted by two of the most prominent participants at the Summit, Jagmeet Singh and Olivia Chow. The purpose of this lie is to repress dissent in the name of “safety,” a strategy that has justified police violence from protests to picket lines. Progressives attack conservatives as spreading misinformation, but close ranks across the political spectrum in service of colonial-imperial state projects.