As many as 200 people protested outside the Munk Debates in Toronto on Wednesday, where a panel of all-Israeli speakers discussed whether a two-state solution is in the best interest of Israel.

Protesters held signs and Palestinian flags as they chanted before the demonstration was broken up by police. One of the protesters, Trevor Miller, called the event “unacceptable.”

“We are here to speak out for the people of Palestine, everyone who suffers under imperialism,” he said.

According to the Munk Debates website, the focus of the discussion was: “Be it Resolved, it is in Israel’s national interest to support a two-state solution.”

Ehud Olmert, former Israeli prime minister, finance minister, and mayor of Jerusalem and Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former justice and foreign minister, argued in

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