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In September, Israel is set to play Canada in a Davis Cup tennis match in Halifax—sportswashing its genocide. El Jones argues that Israel should not be allowed to play while it turns Gaza into a graveyard. breachmedia.ca/israel-sport...

‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine -- In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The cop who punched Abdirahman Abdi to death in Ottawa, Daniel Montsion, was the highest paid officer in Ontario in 2024. His salary is nearly double the other highest salaries, at a stunning $410,710.

I’m in the process of transferring @fadi1996.bsky.social some money to help pay for a new tent - they were kicked out of the one they were using - and to get food. If you’d like to contribute something that will get to him today or tomorrow, make a donation via PayPal. chuffed.org/project/1322...

Israel is not the only government in history to cut off access to food and water as a tool of war. The United States and Canada have also used starvation to conquer Indigenous peoples and acquire their land.

Israel has now killed more journalists in Gaza than were killed in both world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia, combined. This is the deadliest conflict for journalists ever recorded. Gaza is not just a war zone—it has become a graveyard for press freedom.

Don't give your money to NGOs, politicians, or online pundits. Please donate instead directly to Gaza. Below is a link to the Sameer Project's South Gaza Campaign, which urgently needs support: chuffed.org/project/1132...

No Pride in Genocide. Call on Capital Pride to reinstate their solidarity with Palestine. Sign and share the petition. actionnetwork.org/letters/capp...

Microsoft just became the second company to be valued at over $4 trillion. They’ve also fired over 15,000 workers this year. They’ve also spent over $18 billion on stock buybacks over the last year.

"...despite deceptive government statements, the flow of military cargo from Canada to Israel has been uninterrupted." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release. This is censorship and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

For those who asked. The link tree for the Sameer Project is here: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Francesca Albanese's most recent report has profound implications for higher ed. None is more serious than this: administrators are *personally accountable* under international law for complicity in genocide for institutional entanglements w/ Israel and military-industrial companies. We explain:

Carney ran against Trump’s ‘Conservative buddies,’ then governed as their collaborator. Military spending hikes, Big Tech tax cuts, and anti-Indigenous bills reveal the truth: his base was always capital, not Canadians.

In her unparalleled new report, Francesca Albanese comprehensively indicts economic complicities with "the Israeli illegal settler-colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory, which now functions as a genocidal machine." You must read the whole report. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Activists spent a decade getting cops out of Ontario’s schools. Doug Ford’s government is about to put them all back. pressprogress.ca/ontario-gove...

Barbara Marx Hubbard says that our task is “to hospice what’s dying and midwife what’s being born.” There’s a lot to do and a lot to grieve and a lot to organize against and there’s also living to do and beauty to behold. - from me: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

"But if killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?...In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?"

My second piece for the Guardian in a month! As promised, I wrote about Bill C-2 the border bill and how it’s MAGA-inspired www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote about Toronto’s bubble zone bylaw for @canadiandimension.bsky.social TL;DR: it’s bad, but probably not (just) for the reasons you think it is

NEW: Canada Sold $18.9 Million Of Military Goods To Israel, Despite ‘Pause’ The data confirms Liberal politicians have repeatedly lied to the public about Canada stopping military exports to Israel. www.readthemaple.com/canada-sold-...

"The wholesale betrayal of Canada’s largest racial justice movement by those in power continues to have deadly impacts for Black and Indigenous folks today." @policingblack.bsky.social reflects on five years since the 2020 BLM uprising. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I wrote about discovering my grandmother’s hair in Harvard’s Peabody Museum in The Trouble of Color. It still haunts me. I salute Tamara Lanier who persisted in her quest to win control of her ancestor’s images from the same museum — and prevailed! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/h...

Dr. Ghada Ageel: The word 'Nakba' is no longer sufficient to describe what is being done to Palestinians. She proposes a term Al-Ibādah or the Destruction. In Arabic, the phrase for genocide “al-Ibādah jamāʿiyyah” means “the annihilation of everyone and everything” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Due to administrative concerns, our Ottawa conference is closing registration one week before the conference's start. Please go to callforrepentanceconference.com/tickets to secure your tickets before May 21st!

Love to see this!!! AUNBT welcomes UTFA to the faculty union divestment club.

BDS victory: Yesterday, the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa passed a motion calling on the university to divest from institutions “enabling human rights violations, war crimes, and any other breaches of international law in the [OPT].” www.cjpme.org/who_supports...

The Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (APUO) joins at least 18 other Canadian faculty union/ academic association in passing: Motion on Institutional Obligations relating to Violations of International Legal Standards in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

University of Guelph divests fully from fossil fuel companies School previously held a $33-million investment in fossil fuel companies #UniversityofGuelph #Ontario #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In my first time writing for the @thestar.com, I shared why Gaza is the best lens to help Canadians decide which parties and candidates deserve our votes this Monday. This election, I'm voting for Gaza. But please don't call me a single-issue voter www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"Disciplines like Black Studies, Indigenous Studies and Gender Studies are not just academic pursuits. They provide students with essential analytical tools to understand our most pressing issues, including economic precarity, the erosion of civil freedoms and land sovereignty."

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary. Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

NEW: “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

@mesa1966.bsky.social condemns in the strongest terms the targeting of noncitizen students and researchers for their constitutionally protected speech and advocacy. We call on universities and colleges to take 9 steps to ensure the protection of their campus communities. mesana.org/advocacy/let...

The acting director of ICE told the Border Security Expo that his dream is to make the deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.” He added, “We need to get better at treating this like a business.” The depravity of these folks knows no bounds. t.co/sF7TqcqfF8

Life. Beauty.

"I woke up this morning, like most mornings for the past 480 days of genocide, to the latest round of corpses. And instead of getting to mourn or grieve, I am instead responding to your email." @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

The Vote Palestine (votepalestine.ca) platform which is seeking endorsements from candidates from across party lines includes: - impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel - address anti-Palestinian racism and protect freedom of expression on Palestine - protect and fund Gaza relief efforts - ...

NEW: The “fascism experts” ditching Yale for Toronto's Munk School appear blissfully unaware that the academic centre was founded by one of Canada’s most infamous oligarchs, whose company Barrick Gold has been linked to massive human rights violations around the world.

I haven't purchased my annual membership yet. Have you? It's always a good time to support feminist studies - now more than ever. Renew, support for the first time, and annoy your colleagues to do the same.

"No matter how loud the Eid takbeers or festive songs are played, the sounds of bombings and the cries of mothers who lost their children are louder."

Seems like an important moment to talk about racism and our political commitments. Looking forward to this book talk with R. Cassandra Lord & Sheila Batacharya, Fighting Feelings (UBC Press) at UofT.