just shocking and not surprising

🚨 NEW: Platforming archaeologists who legitimize war crimes: By continuing to ignore PACBI, archaeological institutions worldwide are enabling Israel’s occupation of & genocide in Palestine open.substack.com/pub/sparrows...

REPOST from @jewssayno.bsky.social's ig: "This isn’t just a “messed up debate”—it’s a calculated institutional betrayal. The @munkdebates’ decision to host a two-state solution discussion featuring ZERO Palestinian voices is a gross abuse of an academic platform..." 1/

🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...

This whole thread and responses. It's just gut-wrenching...

The professor invited by UBC describes his work as an "archaeology of military occupation”, cites Foucault, but does not see the contradictions of working on an archaeological site built on ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village and next to one of the largest prisons for Palestinians👇

When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.

🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...

🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Honestly speechless at how depraved this is.

🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade substack.com/home/post/p-...

What happens when the university you work for allows genociders to work alongside you and to teach students? Is the university also complicit when they allowed this Engineering professor to make several trips, to murder innocent women, children, men in Palestine, and to return to teach in Toronto?

🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade substack.com/home/post/p-...

🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...

🐦🔎 The findidfsoldiers.net database lists five doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One went to serve after Oct. 7, 2023: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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This is pretty jaw-dropping stuff.

5 of the soldiers listed in @davidemastracci.bsky.social's database are doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One of them went to serve as a reserve fighter after October 7, 2023: substack.com/home/post/p-...

🐦🔎 The findidfsoldiers.net database lists five doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One went to serve after Oct. 7, 2023: substack.com/home/post/p-...

As they should!

"UNB historians denounce their university’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal violence in Palestine" nbmediacoop.org/2025/10/07/u...

🐦🫶🇵🇸 Follow us on Substack to learn more about how universities are complicit with apartheid and genocide, and find generative ways forward. First post out, second one coming very soon! substack.com/@sparrowsfor...

The Palestine exception AND the ongoing coloniality of British academia are in full display yet again

“Student action is not meaningless.” interc.pt/4nR9Gvf

In September 2025, an email regarding the expansion of the Canadian reciprocity work permit pathway for new hires from the Germany to the UK and Israel was sent to “Dean’s Office and Academic HR colleagues” Email quoted here: substack.com/home/post/p-... 4/

Since 2003, UofT has been in partnerships w 8 Israeli academic institutions: •HUJI (est. 2003) •Technion (est. 2013) •TAU(est. 2015) •U of Haifa (est. 2015) •Weizmann Institute (est. 2016) •Jerusalem College of Technology (est. 2018) •Ben Gurion U (est. 2018) •🇮🇱 Institute (est. 2021) 2/

🐦🔎 Quick answer: Deep. Very deep: substack.com/home/post/p-...

🐦🔎 Complicit Israeli universities in their own words: On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...

At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.” “If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

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If we ever live in a just world that holds individuals accountable for collaboration in genocide, I wouldn’t want to be a U of T administrator.

The University of Toronto has made a consistent point of surveilling and disciplining faculty members critical of Israel's genocide in Gaza. When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.

Sharing an important resource on APR, Islamophobia, and Israeli partnerships on Canadian University campuses -by the Expert Task Force report on genocide complicity and repression of Palestine solidarity at universities across Canada. The report is available at www.institutionalcomplicity.ca.

🐦🔎 Quick answer: Deep. Very deep: substack.com/home/post/p-...

UofT has not funded or supported Palestinian scholars-at-risk (like they did for Ukranians feeling Russia). The data suggests that, rather than divesting or cutting ties with Israeli institutions, UofT is hardening its position and increasing collaborations with Israel [3/3]

Sparrows for Palestine provides evidence for a deepening of partnerships between UofT and Israeli universities. And how UofT intends to increase work permit applications for citizens of Israel. Meanwhile UofT has not released a statement on the war crimes perpetrated by Israel in Palestine [2/3]

Rather than limiting or cutting ties with Israeli institutions (which play an important role in providing logistics, manpower, and research to support the genocide) UofT has intensified connections to and collaborations with Israel. See "Sparrows for Palestine" substack.com/home/post/p-... [1/3]

How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run? Quick answer: Very, very deep. sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...

🐦🎓🫶🏻🇵🇸Welcome to Sparrows for Palestine! Our collective gathers university members who care about our institutions ending their complicity in the apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian People by disclosing, divesting from and cutting institutional ties with complicit Israeli institutions.