At the precise moment Charlie Kirk was being murdered, I was watching the end of the documentary The Road Between Us at Roy Thomson Hall.

It was sad, but somehow apt. The Road Between Us is about two Israeli parents, Noam and Gali Tibon, rushing to a kibbutz in Israel’s South on Oct. 7 – to see if their son Amir and daughter-in-law Miri and granddaughters were dead, or to save them.

Amir is a writer, a great one, and he has opinions. He survived that day.

Charlie Kirk, meanwhile, was a young man who was a writer, too, and he had opinions. He was killed for them.

The Road Between Us had been banned, for a while, by the Toronto International Film Festival – which was completely outrageous. After you see the documentary, it is even more outrageous. It is a film that promotes peace, not

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