What about hateful attacks on the PM?

Re: Tasha Kheiriddin: Anti-israel hate marches holding the rest of us hostage while Trudeau shrugs (Column, April 23)

U.S. President Joe Biden, asked to comment on college campus student protests demanding a Gaza war ceasefire, condemned the antisemitic and violent rhetoric from some of the students.

In the same breath he condemned those who refused to understand the position of the Palestinians struggling for their rights. I would add they are struggling as well for their land and their lives.

Yes, we were all rightly appalled by the nearly 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas on Oct. 7. Why are we not even more appalled by the over 34,000 Palestinians who have died in Gaza over the past seven months? This is a war against the Palestinian people who are being ruthlessly slaughtered.

I am glad to see that dozens of student protests have taken off in recent weeks.

The antiwar movement in the 1960s and '70s, as well as the protests to end apartheid in South Africa, were similar.

Acts of civil disobedience typically break laws in order to disturb the status quo.

If Ms. Kheiriddin is so concerned about our being a nation of “peace, order and good government,” where is her condemnation of the protests encouraged by the Conservative party to end the carbon tax in which large signs say “F--- Trudeau”? This is the leader of the opposition encouraging such hateful, personal attacks on our prime minister.

Is this not considered “anything goes” and a “hate farm” of a different sort?

The civil rights movement in the U.S. took dozens of years to achieve some modicum of justice. The Palestinian people have a right to their own land and nation.

Why is it taking us so long to hear their voices? At least the college students are awake to the moral imperative of the wrong of this war.

Carolyn Arbour-dokuchic, St Joachim