Award-winning journalist @smohyeddin.bsky.social was denied entry into "Munk Debates". The message: Let's not ask questions about a "debate" that erases Palestinian voices and mirrors this genocide. This is a debate on what kind of apartheid system Israelis want to continue having, not co-existence.

🤯 Journalist, Munk Debate member, U of T graduate, and recent (unanimously selected) PEN Canada Ken Filkow Prize recipient for her work advancing freedom of expression in Canada, @smohyeddin.bsky.social, is turned away from attending tonight's Munk debate in Toronto. Good grief 🤷

Meanwhile a huge contingent of police is deployed NOT to arrest the genocidal war criminals participating in the Munk "debate", but to protect them 🫠 Award winning journalist @smohyeddin.bsky.social was also refused entry despite having tickets and being a Munk member

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

this shit is just beyond parody, man

"The Munk School isn’t just an external bystander; it functions as the institutional partner & academic anchor of these debates.By allowing this platform to frame the future of 🇵🇸 as merely an ‘🇮🇱 vs🇮🇱’ internal matter, your institution actively supports the erasure of Palestinian self-determination"3/

"...and the responsibility lies squarely with the University of Toronto and its leadership. Janice Stein, as the Founding Director of the Munk School and its key intellectual voice, you are central to this calculated political move." 2/

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/

Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

Acknowledging the #anthropologists who could not or did not attend the @americananthro.bsky.social meeting due to fear of being detained at the border or turned around, to not having an American passport, to being denied their visa, to not having sufficient funds, to taking a principled stance.

🚨 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 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.

Will anyone at this year's conference ask for ASOR to be held to account for its active complicity with the archaeology-washing of apartheid and genocide in Palestine? How are they complicit, you might ask? Here's a refresher 🧵 1/

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.

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.