This whole thread: Concordia University "neutrality" = censorship, firing and repression. #montreal

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Katherine Franke: "While the university may call this change in my status 'retirement,' it should be more accurately understood as a termination dressed up in more palatable terms."

Curious (and beyond shameful) that @lapresse.ca would fail to mention that the store targeted with gunfire Sunday morning, Supermarché Mizan, is an openly Palestinian-owned business. Feels like a pretty giant detail to omit. #montreal #antipalestinianracism #doublestandards

Anyone can fill in this form, whether you are a member of staff, a director, or a board member of a cultural org. Any information will help us in this process. Later this month we will announce a new list of orgs that have committed to PACBI, building on the 22 endorsements announced last fall.

Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment to fill out the nationwide #PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called “Canada" : tinyurl.com/PACBI-SURVEY

Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment to fill out the nationwide #PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called “Canada" : tinyurl.com/PACBI-SURVEY

"Past and present Board members of the Azrieli network represent ties to illegal weaponry research (via Weizmann Institute), Israeli military intelligence, and efforts to ‘rebrand’ the image of Israel, donating $25k annually to Honest Reporting Canada."

"The Azrieli Group has holdings in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Azrieli Group also continues to profit from the colonization of the occupied Palestinian territories through its shares in Bank Leumi."

Note that #ConcordiaUniversity also shamefully has an official longstanding relationship with the Azrieli Foundation via their Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies.

Please join us this coming Thursday Jan. 9th @ 6pm for an artist talk w Palestinian-Canadian artist / filmmaker Rehab Nazzal. Rehab's work documents Israel’s settler colonial practices in Palestine + the resilience & resistance tactics of residents, primarily those in refugee camps. #montreal

️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥 via Artists Against Artwashing: Yesterday, artists in #Toronto delivered a letter with over 200 signatures calling on the Toronto Arts Foundation to cut ties with the zionist Azrieli Foundation. #palestine #PACBI

"I can no longer ethically or morally consent to use my labor in any way that supports an institution that is explicitly manufacturing consent for the unrestrained, illegal, “apocalyptic” ongoing series of “calculated” genocides to destroy the people of #Palestine."

More of this please: "Over 7,000 writers, editors, translators, illustrators, publishers, agents, librarians, and other book industry workers have now joined the boycott of Israeli literary institutions complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people." #pacbi #palestine #bds

Awful doesn't even come close to describing this tragedy. #endthegenocidenow

"The [PACBI] solidarity campaign, heeding the call from Palestinian civil society, takes aim at institutional complicity, not the identity or national origin of any individuals or groups of people."

via @boycottindigobooks (insta): #BoycottIndigoBooks is a grassroots campaign calling for the boycott of Indigo / Chapters due to its CEO’s ongoing involvement in the oppression of Palestinians and her complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. #bds #montreal

via Rehab Nazzal: Israel has been testing weapons in Gaza since '08. After each of the 5 onslaughts on the Strip between '08 - '23, [they] marketed weapons to international regimes as 'tested & proved'. Over the past 14months, new weapons have been used, the latest of which melts flesh and bones.

🔥 from The Link: #ConcordiaUniversity "refuses to address the real issues at hand—its complicity in violence, its financial ties to colonialism and war profiteers, and its silence in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people." #montreal #bds

It's about time!

️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥 #PACBI #BDS "Though this endorsement is an extraordinary measure, it is not the first time that PEN America has stood with besieged writers, as we have done for writers silenced by the South African apartheid regime and for Ukrainian writers under assault by Russia."

#ConcordiaUniversity, are you not ashamed? Sign our open letter demanding that Concordia immediately end their contract with Perceptage, a security contractor run by a former IDF soldier: tinyurl.com/Sign-On-Lett... #montreal #palestine #endthegenocide #idfoffcampus

And this is tomorrow night! #cinema #montreal

Next Wednesday! #montreal #lebanesecinema #foodsovereignty #resistance #documentaries

Open to local and international academic communities + Concordia community incl. alumni. Please sign if you can and help us send #ConcordiaUniversity a message that the IOF does not belong on our university campuses! #montreal #palestine #copsoffcampus #idfoffcampus

3/3 - Here is our open letter to #ConcordiaUniversity, feel free to share the slides! #montreal #palestine #idfoffcampus #copsoffcampus

2/3 - Al Jazeera reported on it earlier this morning. Please help us put pressure on #ConcordiaUniversity - let them know that hiring ex-IDF members to surveil / brutalize Palestinian & Lebanese students & faculty + allies on campus is beyond unacceptable! #palestine #montreal

Please sign! #ConcordiaUniversity has no business bringing ex-IOF members on our campuses! #montreal #palestine

This Sunday! #montreal #fundraiser

Ellen Gabriel is a legend - go if you can:

Rehab Nazzal, #WestBank #Palestine: "Today, around 30 masked and armed Jewish settlers from the illegal colony of Yitzhar attacked a home in the Palestinian town of Huwara, near the city of Nablus."

via CKUT-FM: Join us this Sunday for an evening of music, poetry and projections to raise funds for a project in #Beirut that supports #Palestinian youth living with disabilities in Burj El Barajneh refugee camp. Featuring 2 short films by RP members Razan AlSalah & Muhammad ElKhairy. #Montreal

via Racines de la résistance: Dec 11 @ #LaSalaRossa. Tiotià:ke / #Montreal PREMIERE OF 3 SHORT FILMS on #Lebanon 's biodiversity, created through a residency that paired environmentalists w filmmakers. These works reflect our relationship with the land, the environment, our history, and future.

What does ethics have to do with space, and what does a Mars rover have to do with Palestine? @adeenedenton.com & I will explore this (and more!) during our lecture & discussion series with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social to benefit a family in Gaza. Sign up: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei... 🧪

Jasleen Kaur, 2024 Turner Prize winner, stood in solidarity with #Palestine & the Palestinian liberation movement last night during her acceptance speech: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream meets life we are shut down."

Pick up some Palestinian fantasy and sci-fi this Read Palestine Week! Available in most bookstores (it keeps selling out, so be persistent!). Try buying from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social at the link below. www.workshops4gaza.com/bookstore/th...

#WestBank -based Palestinian journalist / writer Mariam Barghouti on #journalism: "Reporting is not just relaying statements. It is about understanding the smell of a space, the tone of tears, the vibration of laughter. We learn again & again that working in the field means communicating with it."

Rehab Nazzal #Jenin: "Living under siege, military occupation, and apartheid, Palestinians resisting their colonizers are faced with brutal military / surveillance power. There is nowhere to hide / nowhere to escape. They face killer drones, armored vehicles, and soldiers with orders shoot to kill."

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Edward Said & the Question of Palestine On the republication of Said's classic, thinkers – including Jehad Abusalim, Budour Hassan & Saree Makdisi – address the question today and the painful contradictions of narrative power in a time of genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWi...

via Decolonial Film Festival: un extrait du film Beyrouth, ma ville (1982) de Jocelyne Saab. En tandem avec le dramaturge libanais Roger Assaf, elle décide de parcourir sa ville assiégée par les Israéliens et de rendre compte de la situation à Beyrouth. #arabcinema #lebanon #palestine

It’s insane this still needs said

We could not be more proud of fellow RP member Razan AlSalah for winning #RIDM's award for Best National Short or Medium-Length Film for 'A Stone's Throw'. So incredibly well deserved! We'll keep you updated on opportunities to screen it, but in the meantime, here's a short review of the film:

via Rehab Nazzal: "Every time I go to Jenin, I visit the new cemetery established after the atrocity the IOF committed in the camp before Oct '23. Each time, I find new graves of martyrs, including those of siblings and friends who were martyred together, as well as new photographs." #palestine

Globalize the Student Intifada! #freepalestine

Looking forward to watching this. #gaza #palestine #studentintifada

Silence is complicity. #palestine #gaza

Online zoom talk this Monday re: "the new wave of repression against #Palestine solidarity movement in the context of the broader history of repression against the worker’s movement, Indigenous liberation struggles, and revolutionary movements."

"Despite the festival’s long history of creating a space for essential political discourse, #Berlinale made clear that it is content to be complicit in the German government's ongoing strategy of aggressively censoring any criticism of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians." #palestine