Toronto students forced to wear 'Colonizers' shirts at anti-Israel protest

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28. While I don't have first-hand experience, I believe I understand.

... and I fully empathize with that reaction, or at least I can try to.

I am just questioning if this particular incident happened in the way it was presented. There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical, and I am definitely not willing to throw teachers under the bus without knowing a lot more about this ... forgive me ... alleged incident.

I just don't see it. There is not one photo showing masked middle school kids, not one photo of a kid in a blue 'colonizer' shirt, not one photo of a kid holding a sign that has anything to do with Israel/Palestine, not one photo or video or audio of kids chanting slogans. They are just standing around while other people do that ... and there's no indication that they had any idea that this was going to happen.

How do you interpret the photo I posted here? The kid in the photo is holding one end of a banner that says, 'River Run', and I think the sign in the back says either 'Mercury Justice' or 'Mercury Injustice', hard to tell. But they just look sort of bored, although probably happy to get out of school. (Edited to add that the kid holding one end of the banner is actually right next to the kid in the Hurley T-shirt ... she's not actually in this screen shot.)