With the United States vetoing a call for a ceasefire at the United Nations Security Council, the collective West has stood by and condoned Israel’s continued barbarity. This amounts to complicity in war crimes. The callous disregard for Palestinian rights and human lives paints a bleak view of humanity, one that is devoid of hope and redemption. We must fight for better.

In a Global News segment this past week, a journalist asked a Canadian diplomat if there were any Palestinian death toll in Gaza that would be too much—a “red line.” It’s a sickening and perverse question, as if there’s a penance in Palestinian blood that needs to be paid. But it is a question that Canadians need to ask of their government, because the answer doesn’t seem clear.