Outside the same courthouse, a protest of Eritrean residents was blocking streets as they marched up on their way to protest Israel at the Israeli embassy.
The counter argument will be the length of the 'occupation' but it doesn't get to the meat of the issue in that the convoy was effective. Protest has officially been commodified into a glorified city event they don't have to plan and the last thing they want is to give people ideas about what they have to do to enact large scale change.
What happened to hating anti-Semitism?
Also these Eritreans have a history of violence, and by history I mean literally less than 2 weeks ago: https://www.rebelnews.com/mass_melee_erupts_as_eritrean_political_tensions_fill_calgary_streets
The counter argument will be the length of the 'occupation' but it doesn't get to the meat of the issue in that the convoy was effective. Protest has officially been commodified into a glorified city event they don't have to plan and the last thing they want is to give people ideas about what they have to do to enact large scale change.