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?

What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together. Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.

This week! Make sure to register online!

Our panel "From Accra with Laughter" is now available. Ghanaian artist Bright Ackwerh speaks about his decade long sociopolitical commentary on Ghana and the African continent. This conversation was sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute's Program for the Arts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbQ...

Open letter opposing US military incursions & reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. In the words of the late Barbadian PM Errol Barrow, “we are satellites of none,’ and in the words of the late Grenadian PM Maurice Bishop, “we are in nobody’s backyard” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I wish nothing but misery on the agents who talked to him. Nothing. But. Neverending. MISERY.

This is pretty jaw-dropping stuff.

2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

1/ I’m testifying on university complicity in genocide on Saturday, October 25th at the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul: gazatribunal.com

What does it mean for IOF soldiers to teach Medicine in Canadian universities? How aligned is one’s service in an occupation/genocidal army with the Hippocratic oath and with Canadian universities and hospitals commitment to safety, equity and equality? See Sparrows4P 👇 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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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]

In his book "Intellectuals in Developing Societies" Syed Alatas writes about "bebalisma." Derived from the Malay language-"bebal" in Malay means stupid, indolent, stubborn-the concept is meant to convey an attitude of wilful ignorance that coexists with different and diverse ideologies 1/

📖😍🐍 I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my edited volume "The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period" is now available in paperback AND at a 20% discount on CUP's website! 🎊

🌆🌊🏦💥❤️‍🩹 The official poster for "Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving & Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine" workshop is out! Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at AUC Tahrir + on zoom rsvp: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...

The Arab countries neighbouring or close to Palestine and Sudan have been one of the biggest disappointments in the starvation and genocidal violence we are witnessing. May all their regimes fall and may their people gain both courage and liberation for all.

I witnessed a Sudanese woman being policed by a non-Sudanese academic for using the phrase "world's largest humanitarian crisis" to describe the situation in Sudan, critiquing the term crisis and it was such a misplaced critique. Reserve that kind of language policing (1/2)

Using anti-imperialist, Decolonial language does not make someone’s analysis anti-imperialist and anti-colonial. Reactionary propaganda can dangerously be cloaked in such language and I’m not talking about the US context here.

I recommend reading this report by Dr. Suliman Baldo @SulimanBaldo and Ahmed Soliman on gold and the war in Sudan. It demonstrates that most of the gold extracted from Sudan is ending up in the UAE, including gold mined in SAF controlled areas. www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...

This article argues why Canadian universities should be included in Albanese’s report. UofTs Anthropology department implicated due to connections to “Archaeology of Israel Trust”, which is "set up to make a “significant contribution to the archaeology of Israel"" www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Let's talk a little bit about the Weizmann Institute's deep entanglement with Zionism and, therefore, Land theft and genocide, shall we? 1/ 🧵

In a review of Maya Wind's book "Towers of Ivory and Steel", Marcy Newman reminds us that "the Technion (1925) and the Weizmann Institute (1934) were “established to advance the scientific and technological development of Israel”" 2/ mondoweiss.net/2024/03/how-...

The delegation visited Hebrew U, Tel Aviv U, & Weizmann Institute (which host a center funded by Schwartz & Reisman) + “leaders of the 🇮🇱 high tech industry”. Numerous, enthusiastic tweets from that period document this trip, which marked a period of snowballing ties btw 🇮🇱 institutions & UofT...10/

Partnerships with foreign universities are so essential to legitimizing Israeli Zionist institutions like Weizmann that enable apartheid & genocide that in 2016, 🇮🇱 embassy in Canada tweeted to welcome UofT dean of medicine on her partnership-seeking trip to 🇮🇱 alongside then premier Kathleen Wynne 9/

It is important to remember that the Weizmann Institute (recently bombed) is intimately connected with the Zionist military complex, therefore land theft and genocide. I want to acknowledge that U of T has several partnerships with Weizmann University- all documented below.

Columbia U deserves to lose its accreditation: Not over the false claims of the Trump gvt, but over its failure to protect academic freedom Thrilled to join @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social as co-author of this @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social oped www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

Ghanaian political cartoonist Bright Ackwerh will be giving a talk “From Accra with Laughter” (moderated by anthropologist Dr. Joseph Oduro-Frimpong) on April 28th (11am-1pm EST). Please RSVP for this virtual Zoom event.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians on Thursday, including at least 27 sheltering at a school, Gaza's Health Ministry said.

For my Toronto folks...

The @americananthro.bsky.social needs to decenter itself from the US, its imperialism, fascism and its complicity in genocide. If it continues like business as usual, then many will leave. Those not based in the US cannot risk travelling there. And if you are privileged enough to, ask yourself why.

🚨 I have an urgent request. My aunts and uncles are in a village in northern Gezira and they and many others in the village have dengue fever. Some people have already died. They have no clean or running water and need urgent medications. Can anyone (1/2)

State agents kidnapping students for being against a genocide. The Nazis did that. They went after students, professors, universities. The US is doing that. Universities not protecting their students. Zionist groups actively facilitating these abductions. Fascism in full display.

How much more of this can a heart take? The slaughter of innocents, ethnic cleansing of a people, murder of journalists, medical staff, educators, students, men, women, children. Countries support, universities profit, departments complicit, colleagues silent, look the other way. Monsters we become.

"In the Ruins of History: A CAWS/#EOTalks Roundtable in Solidarity with Palestine" Tuesday, February 18, 10am Toronto-time/3pm London-time/5pm Gaza time/10pm Jakarta-time on zoom. RSVP, found in link below. everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i...

🚨@girishdaswani.bsky.social on anti-Palestinian racism in higher education Respect to the brave students who shared their harrowing experiences and accepted for them to be shared The focus is on UofT but the APR patterns are widespread everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/l...

🚨 New on Everyday Orientalism: "Desirable Commodities, Undesirable Migrants: Black International Students in Canadian Universities" by Amidu Mutaru, Alyanna Denise Chua & @girishdaswani.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/d...

Just out on Everyday Orientalism: Heritage first: Archaelogical update from northern Gaza with immense respect and gratitude to Fadel AlUtol everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/h...

🚨 Save the date! The lineup will be announced soon but I can tell you now that it will be *fantastic* Abstract + rsvp: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/i...

High admin laughing after a 🇵🇸 student shared their family's grief w them?✅ Prof debating in class if Palestinians deserve humanitarian aid while joking about genocide?✅ Same prof hosting a guest who tells students that 🇿🇦 apartheid never happened?✅ by @girishdaswani.bsky.social tinyurl.com/462x3ted

🚨Radical Teacher's special issue on student encampments for 🇵🇸 is out! w 3 chapters on UofT's encampment by Jenna Maingot, Clelia Rodriguez + @girishdaswani.bsky.social & me. Merci to Bob Rosen + Joseph Entin for their trust: radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

Everyday Orientalism's 2024 = 29 new publications, many of which focusing on 🇵🇸 + documenting the ongoing complicity of universities & academic fields with the genocide enacted by 🇮🇱 See you in 2025 for more out-of-the-box content! 🎶Ajwiju by Nishtiman everydayorientalism.wordpress.com