There was a story recently in Canadian news. In it Palestinian-Canadian professor, Samer Abdelnour, remarked: “It’s tiring. I feel like growing up in Toronto, the narrative has been so hostile against Palestinians. … It’s just tiring to face this sort of constant aggressiveness and denial. It really is an act of erasure.” Though the story is primarily about the legality and lack of ethics surrounding not properly labelling Palestinian wines, Abdelnour’s words—perhaps because of my own lived experience—left a stronger impression on me than the story itself. As a Palestinian ally, I find it challenging living in the Toronto political...