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Assistant Professor University of Toronto | @sawporg | @palestineUofT | @fac4pal | Afro-Asian Networks | @Liberation_PP

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Chandni Desai

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Honoured to have been invited to contribute to one of the Journal of Palestine Studies 50th anniversary special issues. My article “Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas & Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine” is out.

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Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas and Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle...

This article explores the resurgence of Indigenous/Palestine solidarity during the Wet’suwet’en land sovereignty struggle in Canada that took place around the same time Donald Trump’s Middle East “...

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UofT was stunning last night!!!! Students, faculty, staff, community show their solidarity with The Peoples Circle for Palestine! @occupyuoft

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University of Toronto, revolution illuminated! The Peoples Circle for Palestine. The campus has never looked this beautiful. pic credit: @HA4Palestine

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Settlers set the village of Al-Mughayyir, north of Ramallah on fire to burn down agricultural crops and olive trees.

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Ahmed Manasra is now in a prison hospital due to deteriorating mental health in prolonged solitary confinement.The UN states that Solitary longer than 15 days is torture - Ahmed spent over 6 months in solitary confinement.Though he was a child when arrested, the court delayed

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Everyone needs to be in the streets. Silence is complicity. Inaction is complicity.

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UQAM students have reached a settlement. UQAM adopted a resolution establishing an academic boycott against Israeli universities. They pledged not to hold any assets in funds or companies profiting from armaments, & to disclose their list of investments

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UQAM pro-Palestinian encampment to come down, McGill denounces intimidation on campus

After three weeks of protesting, the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) encampment is set to come down – with demonstrators said to be “satisfied” that there demands have been met.

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UofT students begin their People’s Circle for Palestine. They join the global student movement to disclose, divest, and cut ties with Israeli universities, institutions and corporations complicit in occupation, apartheid & genocide.

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The undergraduate student union (UTSU) at uoft just passed a resolution tonight to “wholly divest funds & further forbid investments to firms complicit in the occupation of Palestinian territory”.

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U of T students call for divestment from apartheid and genocide, the key demand of their two-day sit in. Please consider signing on to this open letter in support

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University of Toronto and Broader Community in Solidarity with Student-led UofT Occupy for Palestine

April 3, 2024 Dear colleagues, In light of the student-led University of Toronto Occupy for Palestine movement's occupation of University of Toronto's President Meric Gertler's office in solidarity...

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In a historic show of solidarity The Ontario Federation of Labour @OFLabour representing 1 million workers took a stance to protect students,faculty & staff being threatened with an injunction (police violence), discipline, fines up to $10k & mass termination of faculty.

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health conditions. “Ahmad’s imprisonment for almost six years has deprived him of childhood, family environment, protection, and all the rights he should have been guaranteed as a child,” the experts said. #FreeAhmadManasra

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Shame on the University of Calgary.

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Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦

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BREAKING: Dramatic scenes from the university of Calgary as the Police begins to dismantle the anti-Israel encampment on day 1. Follow and support @MediaBezirgan for more on-the-ground coverage.

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his trial until he was 14 to intentionally try him as an adult. UN human rights experts* today urged the Government of Israel to immediately release Ahmad Manasra, a 20-year-old Palestinian detained in Israeli prisons since he was 14 years old, while suffering serious mental

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We are honoured to be hosting Prof @UssamaMakdisi at the University of Toronto for the second annual Palestine Studies Salon lecture. The event will feature creative works by UofT students, followed by his lecture “Genocide & the Denial of Palestine”

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Our UofT students take the streets and participate in a global general strike in solidarity with Palestine.

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University of Toronto students take the streets demanding Justice #FreeGaza #EndIsraeliGenocide

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A week ago,news broke that student fees allocated to the University of Toronto Graduate Students Union(UTGSU) and its Boycott,Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) caucus would be withheld by the university administration.They claim that the caucus broke its own anti-discrimination policy

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All I want for the holidays is a ceasefire. Scholars everywhere, join heroic surgeon @GhassanAbuSitt1 , Fields Medalist David Mumford, Judith Butler, Robin DG Kelley & hundreds of other academics in signing this statement @sawporg calling for an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza

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Scholars Against the War in Palestine Petition “All I Want for the Holidays is a Ceasefire” Please read, sign and share the petition widely to your networks

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After UofT admin threatened mass termination of faculty in a trespass notice they gave to @occupyuoft , they now allude that this was a “misunderstanding”. The admin clarified yesterday if “faculty who do not comply with the trespass notice, they will not be terminated”.

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Day 50 of the UofTs People Circle for Palestine.The largest encampment in Canada & one of the largest in North America,with over 180 tents.The university has filed for a court injunction to clear the circle.The court must uphold basic Charter rights rather than outlawing protest

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Toronto today.

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Khalid Hamadeh

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RIGHT NOW in Toronto - enormous protest for Palestine! #Gaza_under_attack #CeasefireInGazaNOW #FreePalestine

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I support the amazing students at the People Circle for Palestine & @occupyuoft ’s demands to disclose, divest & cut ties with🇮🇱apartheid, occupation & genocide. Over 100+ faculty,alum & honorary degree holders express solidarity with our students demands

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The University of Toronto’s Investments in Israeli Apartheid, check out the report. Disclose, Divest, Cut Ties @occupyuoft

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Our students are incredibly brilliant & remarkable for creating the People’s Circle for Palestine, a liberated space of possibility, care, & freedom dreams. Their steadfast spirit to stay till they achieve their demands during a genocide is an act of courage & ❤️ @occupyuoft

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UofT Occupy for Palestine

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day 15 and we’re going into week 3 of the People’s Circle for Palestine! it is so humbling and heartwarming to see the amount of community support we’ve gotten, whether it’s someone donating food or people staying at the camp overnight. this is only possible because of you ❤️❤️

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Leaders of settler states like🇨🇦will deny genocide because such states were built on genocide themselves. The historical record on residential schools & mass graves of Indigenous children found in🇨🇦tell us why they will reject the premise of SA’s case at the ICJ #genocidedenial

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Quds News Network

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BREAKING| Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denies that Israel has been committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza saying that his country rejects the premise of South Africa's case at the ICJ, which was described as fact-based and compelling.

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One of the most significant statements made by the traditional council of Kahnawake who have confirmed that students have the right to be on this land in accordance with the Two Row Wampum Peace Treaty

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Now you are horrified? You should have been horrified in Oct, at the very least in Jan when the ICJ warned of plausible genocide. This is what complicity in genocide gets you. We’ve been horrified by your in action. #sanctions and #arms embargo now.

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We are horrified by strikes that killed Palestinian civilians in Rafah. Canada does not support an Israeli military operation in Rafah. This level of human suffering must come to an end. We demand an immediate ceasefire.

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The increasing violence (without a cause) we are seeing daily on the streets & subways in Toronto is part of a deep economic crisis people are facing because of capitalism. It is not simply random mental health issues spiralling out of control as the government suggests.

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🚨🚨Toronto all out tommorow. Demand an end to the genocidal attacks on Rafah & the genocidal war.

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Real estate agency selling Palestinian land illegally. This is colonial theft.

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Rabbi David Mivasair🔥

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At a real estate sales promo event in a #Toronto synagogue selling properties on land stolen from Palestinian families. “Thou shalt not steal.” “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.” ⁦ @IndJewishVoices ⁩ ⁦ @palyouthmvmt ⁩ ⁦ @IfNotNowOrg ⁩

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Had an incredible rich conversation with @ShreeParadkar about Palestine. Check out her brilliant piece, informed by our conversation. This is responsible journalism, thank you Shree.

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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁

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As thousands of people across Canada rallied to support Palestinians, as they were newly bombed by Israel, I look at the links that bind Black, Indigenous and Palestinian liberation movements with the help of U of T scholar Chandni Desai.

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A powerful💔graduation ceremony honouring Gaza’s student martyrs was organized by our students yesterday. Reflecting on the #scholasticide , hundreds of names of the over 6000 students killed were read aloud alongside moving speeches from students & faculty on day1 of convocation

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Over 100 UofT faculty pledge for the academic boycott of Israel. Inspired by the courage & integrity of our students @occupyuoft , alongside our steadfastness peers & colleagues being murdered, maimed, tortured & imprisoned across Palestine Sign on 🧵

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University of Toronto Faculty Pledge for the Academic Boycott of Israel - F4P

University of Toronto Faculty Pledge for the Academic Boycott of Israel [To sign this pledge, fill this form] University of Toronto Faculty Pledge for the Academic Boycott of IsraelIsrael’s ongoing...

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Faculty 4 Palestine

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The F4P UofT chapter has just released a University of Toronto Faculty Pledge for the Academic Boycott of Israel. 100+ faculty have pledged to uphold @PACBI ’s call for academic boycott. UofT faculty are urged to sign the pledge as students demand BDS.

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Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been released after a court order rejected police findings. The court dismissed a police request to extend her remand, citing insufficient justification for the arrest.

Court orders release of prominent Palestinian professor suspected of

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Students have reclaimed spaces on campuses globally & are demanding divestment inspired by the S.African anti-apartheid divestment campaigns. Agreements to divest so far have been reached at -Rutgers -Minnesota -Evergreen state college -Brown agreed to hold a divest vote

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External review finds TMU law students’ pro-Palestinian letter didn’t breach school’s code of conduct

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TMU law students’ pro-Palestinian letter ‘greatly flawed’ but didn’t breach school’s code of...

While the letter was understandably offensive to many, the students' participation was a valid exercise of student expression, writes retired judge.

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UN Experts call all arms manufacturers supplying Israel weapons to immediately stop arms transfers as they risk complicity in violations of international law. #armsembargo

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UN Special Procedures

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US, Germany, UK & arms manufacturers incl Boeing, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce Power & RTX must end weapon transfers to Israel: UN experts "By continuing arms transfers to Israel, States & companies risk complicity in violations of int'l law"

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Stand with the People's Circle for Palestine student encampment at UofT Fill out the form below to send an email to your City Councillor, Mayor Chow, & provincial and federal reps & demand that students are not subjected to state violence.

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They are targeting babies in incubators at Al-Shifa hospital @JustinTrudeau . Where is your moral compass? How do you, a father, stand idle? They have cut oxygen lines for a hospital. These are war crimes. This is genocide. #CeasefireForGazaNOW

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Palestine is a global struggle discussion on Friday June 25th, 4-6pm. Join Nahla Abdo, Rinaldo Walcott @blacklikewho , Himani Bannerji, @AyyashMark & myself. The event is organized by @ScholarStrikeCa

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Defend Academic Freedom, Free Palestine! | ScholarStrikeCanada

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Women being raped in Gaza, pregnant women being mowed over, people being executed. And the US Congress just allocated $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel yesterday. This Israeli-US genocide has to stop immediately. @CIJ_ICJ what are you people doing?

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‘Women in Gaza are being raped and this is not being investigated or reported’ Canadian doctors volunteering in Gaza have reported.

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Toronto Star @ShreeParadkar ’s piece on scholasticide in🇵🇸as a “dangerous aspect of genocide” is a must read. Gratitude for giving space to @abedtakriti & I to discuss scholasticide as a key aspect of eliminating🇵🇸futures & highlighting the @sawporg campaigns aims to resist

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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁

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There's a clear concern about scholasticide + the denial of it, Abdel Razzaq Takriti tells me. "As scholars, we cannot fathom how it is possible that we're supposed to stay silent while our colleagues are being bombed with bombs supplied by our countries."

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All major Indian trade unions have called upon the govt to scrap agreement with Israel to export Indian workers & appealed to workers to boycott Israeli products & refuse to handle Israeli cargo.

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Join 200+ hundred faculty, alum, & honorary degree holders support the People Circle for Palestine and @occupyuoft ’s demands to disclose, divest and cut ties. See the growing list here: We Are UofT University of Toronto

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University of Montreal's #SGPPUM is the first Canadian Faculty Association to call for a boycott of Israeli Universities! The historic motion was passed unanimously last Friday March 22nd by the SGPPUM Council, amid growing mobilization by student and faculty

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Faculty 4 Palestine

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University of Montreal's SGPPUM is the first Canadian Faculty Association to call for a boycott of Israeli Universities! The historic motion was passed unanimously last Friday March 22nd by the SGPPUM Council, amid growing mobilization by student and faculty.🧵

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We can be anti-western intervention and anti-sanctions and simultaneously support the Iranian and Kurdish peoples revolution and critiques of the state. We can also refuse western reductive orientalist frameworks about hijab and women’s oppression and stand for gender justice.

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“They do everything to make us hate, the target is love” - Daqqa May Walid Daqqa -the revolutionary and intellectual - rest in power. May his fighting spirit and fighting heart inspire us all on the path towards liberation.

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Walid Daqqa’s body will be held captive until March 2025, “to complete his sentence.” Even in death, his family is denied a last embrace.

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CUPE National, Canadas largest union with over 75000 members, pass an emergency resolution and stand with Palestine. 2/3 majority at @cupenat convention.

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Labour for Palestine

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(1/4)🚨 BREAKING: @cupe_scfp members just adopted Emergency Resolution #804 at their national convention in Quebec City by a 2/3 majority. Fight the power, turn the tide! End Israeli apartheid! 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

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on the basis that the caucus fee – for all graduate students – discriminates based on nationality. BDS is an anti-colonial, anti-racist movement guided by the inclusive agenda of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance that

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This is a tactic of silencing pro-Palestine advocacy. Faulty allegations and attempts to discipline an autonomous union (using lawfare strategies) reveals how deeply the university is invested in silencing advocacy on Palestine & complicit in anti-Palestinian racism.

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The 2nd Annual Palestine Studies at University of Toronto is tom. In-person is sold out @UssamaMakdisi lecture “Genocide & the Denial of Palestine” will be hybrid. Tune in online 7pm EST for the zoom webinar Tues Nov 28

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The Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty Association (TFA) has voted in favour of a motion in solidarity with the people of Palestine, upholding the principles of academic freedom in the face of ongoing injustice. At its Annual General Meeting today, faculty members voted to

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Faculty 4 Palestine

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Important victory for Palestine solidarity at Toronto Metropolitan University!

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was held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. BDS does not discriminate against individuals based on ethnicity or nationality, rather it targets institutions that are complicit in human rights violations. BDS extends its solidarity with all marginalized communities including

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In Nabka Genocide 2023/24 I argue how structural genocide & ethnic cleansing will occur together in this war. I historicize the attacks on UNRWA as part of Israels enduring colonial strategy to annihilate the right of return in this @PalStudies paper

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Rafah is “comprised of 3 entirely different worlds:the east is an archetypal war zone,the middle is a ghost town & the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions”. 19 int’l aid agencies warned “the humanitarian response is on the verge of collapse”in Rafah

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A court injunction sought by UofT has ordered students from @occupyuoft to remove their⛺️by 6pm today emboldening Toronto police to enforce the order by force. This ruling privileges private property (on stolen land), policing, & sets back the right to protest & peaceful assembly

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'The rights of the protesters must prevail' @occupyuoft lawyers push back on U of T's court bid to have the encampment cleared. Students outside the courthouse powerfully reiterate their intentions & why disclosure, divestment & cutting ties during an ongoing genocide in urgent

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Presser this morning as students reiterate their demands.

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Students and faculty at the University of Toronto upon the mics decrying the criminalization of the university community. Students reiterate their fundamental demands to the press assembled: the university must divest from Israeli apartheid and end its complicity in genocide.

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Yet, students and faculty that build campaigns and movements for justice on our campus and beyond have always prevailed against such forms of power and discipline. The censure was one example. This will be another.

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On Oct 14 Netflix Launches ‘Palestinian Stories’ Collection With Award-Winning Films. These are must watch films!

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UQAM will also ensure that none of its current or future academic agreements conflict with the principles of peace and international humanitarian law #BDS victory!

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Today Israel’s apartheid regime denied Khalida Jarrar the right to attend her daughters funeral. In 1969, the apartheid regime in South Africa refused Madiba to attend his son’s funeral while incarcerated. Today also marks one year since his daughter passed.

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Christo Brand

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A year ago today Nelson Mandela’s daughter, Zindzi, passed away. On this same day, 13 July 1969, his son Thembekile, died in a car accident at the age of 24. Mandela, who was then a prisoner on Robben Island, was refused permission to attend his son’s funeral. @NelsonMandela

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Thrilled to see WUFA standing on the right side of history. More faculty associations need to follow their and University of Montreals lead. Congrats to all the comrades that organized.

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F4P SW Ontario

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BREAKING: The Windsor Faculty Association (WUFA) just passed a motion on Academic Freedom, Preservation of Palestinian Education & Solidarity with Palestine at its AGM!

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Honoured to launch a special issue of the Decolonization journal on Palestine which records, analyzes and provides a praxis for another future @chandni_desai4 , @stevesalaita , @vijayprashad , @dies_journal , @stopthewall , @haidareid , @EricaVioletLee

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National day of action Montreal for ASA/MESA attendees.

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The M.J.❤️Mary-Jo Nadeau Activist Scholar Award for Graduate Students in Sociology is 4 a York PhD student in Sociology whose work demonstrates a commitment to anti-racism,feminist inquiry & is in solidarity with local &global struggles for social justice.

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The Mary-Jo Nadeau Activist Scholar Award (The M.J.) for Graduate Students in Sociology was established by family, friends, and colleagues of Dr. Mary-Jo Nadeau, a graduate (’05) of York University’s...

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Indigenous, Black, Asian, Latino, Roma, Jewish, Muslim, Dalit) that are targets of xenophobic and far-right racist movements. The allegation of ‘discrimination based on nationality’ by the administration ellipses the material conditions - ongoing settler colonial occupation,

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During the 1936-39 Arab revolt the British Mandate which colonized Palestine banned the keffiyeh. Hours ago the Legislative Assembly banned the keffiyeh in Ontario’s legislative building. Settler intimacies reveal their #antiPalestinianRacism & alliance with a genocidal state

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Sarah Jama

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My statement on the Keffiyeh Ban at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario #onpoli #HamOnt #FreePalestine

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ethnic cleansing and apartheid across historic and occupied Palestine - that led to the emergence of the BDS movement in the first place. The administration mischaracterizes the BDS movements mandate against all forms of racism and racial discrimination including anti-Semitism.

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hassina has been ousted after weeks of protests.

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Chittagong, Bangladesh, 03 August 2024

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I’m looking forward to presenting on Palestinian archives, archival violence, the challenges of preserving Palestine & reflecting on creating spaces to hear Palestine from “the undercommons” @PalestineUofT this Thursday Nov 25, 12-1:30 EST.

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Institute of Islamic Studies, Univ. of Toronto

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The 'Hearing Palestine' initiative ( @PalestineUofT ) is hosting Dr. Chandni Desai ( @4cdesai ) on Nov 25, 12pm EST for a presentation on the challenges and contradictions of preserving Palestine, from occupied Palestine to campuses in Canada. Register:

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The allegation of ‘discrimination based on nationality’ also completely misses how racial justice movements organize. Caucusing is a racial justice strategy through which groups that share common identity, values, and a cause gather and meet to connect, learn and engage in

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Confronting colonial violence and racism is not about the needs & feelings of the oppressor and/or those that largely benefit from the colonial state.Yet the admin centers those that benefit from colonial violence by making accusations that they are the ones discriminated against

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Chandni Desai

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i have analyzed several sieges in the context of occupations so was reluctant to call the Ottawa insurrection a siege. but it’s a siege as the organizational leadership of the convoy constitutes deep knowledge of law enforcement, policing & military tactics

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Open letter by Gaza academics & university administrators to the world “The rebuilding of Gaza’s academic institutions is not just a matter of education; it is a testament to our resilience, determination & unwavering commitment to securing a future for generations to come” Read

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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities 🧵

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Looking forward to giving this lecture at Brown next week on Palestine, Lotus & the Afro-Asian left! Humbled that a pedagogical initiative I developed at UofT inspired the brilliant @abedtakriti & his students to curate the upcoming exhibit! Please join us if in the area!

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Abdel Razzaq Takriti عبدالرزاق التكريتي

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So proud of my Palestinian Revolution class students for curating & organizing this exhibit! It was inspired by @4cdesai ’s fabulous Palestine Studies Salon at the University of Toronto, so it is only fitting that she will come to Brown as our keynote speaker 🤩

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The Ontario Federation of Labour is organizing an emergency rally Nov 1st at 5pm at the Ministry of Labour (400 University Ave) to stand with CUPE @CUPEOntario education workers and defend the right to free and fair collective bargaining.

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The children of Gaza tell the world don’t stop demonstrating. ❤️💔

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Ahmed Masoud

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A message from children in Rafah. Don't stop demonstrating people, Gaza children can hear your voice #CeasefireNOW

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His government has wiped out every university in Gaza, massacred thousands of students, hundreds of professors & teachers. Yet, Columbia students are “anti-Semitic”. MLK would have stood on the lawn with those courageous students fighting to #EndIsraelsGenocide & death machine.

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People of conscience are appalled, devastated & disturbed hearing the guilty verdict against #HassanDiab A case based on inconclusive “secret evidence” & unfair trails. A racist state looking for a scapegoat Cant imagine the 💔 Diab & his family are feeling this Eid. No words

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TAKE ACTION ICLMG is appalled at the guilty verdict against Dr. #HassanDiab by the French court announced today. We send our love & solidarity to Dr. Diab & his family on this terrible day & we commit to continue to fight for justice to prevail 1/ #cdnpoli

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Today’s landmark ICJ ruling determined Israel’s actions in Gaza are plausibly genocidal, & that states have a legal obligation to prevent genocide. This means it’s time for sanctions, an end to the arms trade & amping up divestment & boycotts against a genocidal state #BDS

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The indomitable Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Israeli police in the Old City of Jerusalem on the charge of incitement to violence. Shame on @HebrewU for persistently repressing her academic freedom, which led directly to today’s arrest. #FreeNadera #EndScholasticide

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3 months

Really great article on the encampments for disclosure and divestment by @krisnas85 @springmagca .

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Krisna Saravanamuttu

3 months

I wrote this piece for @springmagca to highlight student activism in anti-apartheid struggles from South Africa to Palestine. Palestinian students and workers across Turtle Island shared their insight. Voices from the student encampments for Palestine

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in conversations about structural racism, state violence, power and/or privilege. The purpose of a caucus is to decenter dominant ideology and perspectives and center the histories, voices and material conditions of the oppressed.

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Chandni Desai

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Canada & US cut funding to #UNRWA the same day that the ICJ ruled that🇮🇱s actions in Gaza are plausibly genocidal. 🇮🇱massacred 100+ UNWRA staff in Gaza,no condemnation.Unproven🇮🇱i allegations on 0.004% of UNRWAs staff leads to genocide denial,$ cuts & collective punishment. shame

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Ahmed Hussen

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7 months

Canada unequivocally condemns the October 7th attack on Israel. I am deeply troubled by the allegations relating to some UNRWA employees. I have instructed Global Affairs Canada to pause all additional funding to UNRWA pending the outcome of the investigation. Read my statement:

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To understand the attacks on #UNRWA this policy paper outlines how Israel is attempting to annihilate the right of return by enacting ethnic cleansing through genocide It situates @UNLazzarini ’s concerns ⬇️ within a broader political-historical context.

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Philippe Lazzarini

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On March 4, I told 🇺🇳 General Assembly that #UNRWA is facing a deliberate & concerted campaign to undermine its operations, and ultimately end them. I did not expect it would go as far 👇 Israeli influence operation targets U.S. lawmakers on Hamas-UNRWA

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2 years

Elated to share our article “Lotus and its afterlives: Memory, pedagogy and anti-colonial solidarity”, co-written by @RafeefZiadah and myself for a special issue in the journal Curriculum Inquiry @CI_Editors

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Lotus and its afterlives: Memory, pedagogy and anticolonial solidarity

In this article we examine the Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings journal as an insurgent space that reflected Afro-Asian solidarity. We argue that Lotus constituted “infrastructures of dissent” and “infra...

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Chandni Desai

3 years

Really heartened to see so many amazing folks supporting the @censureutoronto . These stances are meaningful esp to those of us that do our scholarship on Palestine & have faced years of censorship, harassment, silencing, unfair treat, & threats to our lives. #UofTScandal

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Deborah Cowen

3 years

🧵1/6 What do these inspiring scholars, artists and public intellectuals have in common? Arundhati Roy, Robin D. G. Kelley, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Saskia Sassen, Seyla Behnabib, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Lauren Berlant, Lisa Lowe...

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In case you missed these rich presentations and discussion that Scholar Strike Canada organized on Friday!

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Palestines oldest mosque was just bombed & destroyed. Built in the year 620 Hijra (1220 AD), the mosque is one of Gaza’s main archaeological sites. Palestinian cultural heritage is being targeted. Museams, archives, cultural centre’s, libraries, archaeological sites churches,

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Malaka

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This is the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza. First built in the 4th century. Used at times as a church and at others as a mosque since then. The oldest and biggest mosque in Gaza until this morning. And you got it right. Israel just destroyed it. And I’m shattered. (pics from google).

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It was an honour to be in dialogue with leading Baloch human rights defenders & victims of forced disappearances & torture.1 of the most moving lectures of the term. My student @LateefJohar led 1 of the most significant hunger strikes of the Baloch struggle which was memorialized

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Lateef Johar Baloch

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We held a screening and lecture on #Balochistan at @uoft , which was a great success. During the event, we focused on the issue of forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings caused by the Pakistani government's counter-insurgency policies, including the infamous "kill and

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When the Canadian state wants to be self righteous about women’s rights in Iran and pose sanctions, why do they conveniently forget of their own treatment of the Indigenous women right here, the many missing and murdered by settlers and agents of the colonial state (the cops)?

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This must also apply to librarians and staff. Their civil liberties and Charter Rights also cannot be violated.

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Not our tax dollars @JustinTrudeau for a war on Yemen.During inflation when 1/2 this country is struggling to survive,you are sending $ for airstrikes.🇨🇦is a signatory to the genocide convention,instead of trying to stop it,you sanctioning $ 4 escalation of a regional war. Why?

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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

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❗️Canada’s support for US/UK airstrikes on Yemen is a dangerous escalation of violence which effectively makes us a party to the conflict in a growing regional war. This is the exact OPPOSITE of pushing for a ceasefire. Stop bombing Yemen, end the genocide in Gaza!

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Honouring the Life & Work of Aziz Choudry May 30th, 2023 | York University 001 Vanier College 10:45am-12:15pm Palestine Solidarity Panel Roundtable participants: Salim Vally Aidan McDonald Cynthia Wright Chaired by Chandni Desai

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Another professor killed in Israel’s scholasticide - an aspect of its genocidal war. Our universities stay silent about this scholasticide. Many of our colleagues remain silent. Attacks on universities, academics & students constitute war crimes. May Dr. Abu Hein rest in peace

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sawporg

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Israeli snipers have just killed Dr. Fadel Abu Hein, renowned professor of Psychology at Al-Aqsa University & former director of Community Training Center for Crisis Management in Gaza. He contributed significantly to the field of trauma and its impact on the mental health of 🇵🇸s

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Looking forward to this virtual event and hearing from some of my favourite people that have been working tirelessly on @censureutoronto

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Censure UofT

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3 years

Join us to celebrate, reflect, build! #WEareUofT @nickwestes @ananyaUCLA @CAUT_ACPPU

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