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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

8 months

Protesting the illegal sale of occupied land is not antisemitism.

Anthony Housefather

@AHousefather

8 months

Clearly the message has not sunk in yet so let me repeat. Demonstrating outside of Jewish institutions to protest against Israeli actions is antisemitism pure and simple. It should not be happening in Thornhill or anywhere else in Canada.

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@danrueck

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Here's @uOttawa 's "Special Advisor on Antisemitism," who is supposedly in that position to promote antiracism and safety on campus, celebrating a massive indiscriminate attack that killed and maimed scores of civilians in Lebanon.

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@danrueck

4 months

As a historian of colonialism, it's my duty to speak out against the colonial present. If understanding past colonialism doesn't help us to identify and oppose colonialism today, what's the point?

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@Jairo_I_Funez

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It's easier to write about colonialism in the past tense than to speak out against the colonial present.

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7 months

The Irish Potato famine, like the current Gaza famine, was a deliberate starvation campaign by the occupying power.

Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

7 months

Extraordinary video of the Irish PM lecturing Biden to his face - Biden who loves reminding people he's Irish! - on why "the Irish people are deeply troubled about [Gaza]" and why "the Irish have such empathy for the Palestinian people". The Irish PM

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@danrueck

3 years

This arrived in the mail. I receive it with gratitude to all of my teachers who have guided me and continue to hold me up. Niá:wen

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@danrueck

8 years

1. Many of you have seen this revealing 1948 letter from Kamloops IRS principal F. O'Grady make the rounds on social media.

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@danrueck

2 months

Here's @uottawa 's recently appointed "Special Advisor on Antisemitism" getting into a shouting match with one of our professors. How does any of this uncivil online behaviour promote a safer campus for all? @recteurUOpres @APUOtt

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@danrueck

2 months

Here's @uOttawa 's recently appointed "Special Advisor on Antisemitism" calling an anti-Zionist Jew racist and accusing him of promoting "blood libel." How does any of this online bullying and name-calling promote a safer campus for all? @recteurUOpres @APUOtt

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@danrueck

5 years

You think the idea of genocide was uncontroversial in post-war Germany? Allies "sometimes required adults to view footage of liberated concentration camps before they could receive ration cards; one memoirist recalled that people...turned their heads...refused to watch"

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@danrueck

5 years

It's typical that people deny their own complicity in genocide, deny genocides their nation perpetuated. It happened in Germany. It's happening in Rwanda. Those are the two genocides people point to as being undeniable. If you are denying genocide in Canada, you fit a pattern.

Daniel Rück

@danrueck

5 years

You think the idea of genocide was uncontroversial in post-war Germany? Allies "sometimes required adults to view footage of liberated concentration camps before they could receive ration cards; one memoirist recalled that people...turned their heads...refused to watch"

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@danrueck

8 years

5. O'Grady remained bishop until 1986. That year UBC bestowed on him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

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@danrueck

6 months

It's not anti-German to oppose the Holocaust. It's not anti-Turkish to oppose the Armenian genocide. It's not anti-Canadian to oppose the genocides of Indigenous peoples. It's not antisemitic to oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza.

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@danrueck

2 months

Here's @uottawa 's recently appointed "Special Advisor on Antisemitism" suggesting that he can't be critiqued re his position on colonialism and apartheid because he is the son of Holocaust survivors and because he has worked for equity and inclusion in the past.

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

5 months

In light of the calls of the McGill Palestine-solidarity encampment to @boycott_FHSS Congress @federation_hss , I’ve decided to withdraw my participation from Congress, and from the three @CndHistAssoc panels I am involved with. @mcgillu

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

6 months

May all university presidents who authorize the brutalization of students lose our confidence

Karl Jacoby

@karl_jacoby

6 months

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University just returned a vote of no confidence in President Shafik Vote breakdown: Yes (in favor of resolution): 458 (65% of those voting) No (not in favor of resolution): 206 (29% of those voting) Abstain: 45 (6% of those voting)

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@danrueck

6 months

This is what we are fighting against. The dehumanization and demonization of an entire people facing genocide.

Mayor Jeremy Levi

@jerlevi

6 months

Given the recent behavior of the pro-Palestinian group, Canada should reconsider its immigration plan for Gazans. Their values seem incompatible with ours, and I have no desire to welcome more hatred into our country.

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@danrueck

6 years

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established as part of the legal settlement of the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history.

Seamus O'Regan Jr

@SeamusORegan

6 years

Collaboration, rather than litigation, is the best way to right historical wrongs and advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

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@danrueck

3 years

@Ian_Mosby Why not add Indian Agents while we're at it?

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@danrueck

8 years

The psychological suffering of an exposed white imposter ≠ thousands of racialized people killed by white mobs

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@danrueck

2 years

Whoever hides behind this account has never read the piles and piles of peer-reviewed published history on residential schools in good faith. Instead they pick and choose tidbits that support their desired interpretation and latch onto the few anecdotes that fit it.

TheDorchesterReview

@DorchesterRev

2 years

It is false that indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools. Even when compulsory attendance was introduced in 1920, parents had a choice of day school or boarding. Lots of false narratives are going unchallenged by non-objective media. @NCTR_UM @CBCIndigenous

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@danrueck

8 years

13. It's time to re-examine the 'heroic' status of men like O'Grady who worked so hard to dehumanize and destroy Indigenous peoples.

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@danrueck

6 months

Thread on settler colonialism as moving into homes of people who were expelled. Reminds me of the New England settlers who didn't have to clear land to farm because it was already being farmed. And the gall, then, to justify it by saying Indigenous ppl didn't work it properly.

Christi Belcourt

@christibelcourt

6 months

Was listening to a descendant of a Holocaust survivor retell their story of persecution and when their grandparents moved to Israel and were offered keys to a home - they found plates set on the table. Realizing it was someone's home they immediately saw (con't)

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@danrueck

5 years

"Five years after the war, surveys revealed that one-third of the country thought the Nuremberg war crime trials had been “unfair.” Majorities believed that Nazism had been a “good idea, badly applied,”

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

5 months

Another example of environmental racism in Canada. Reserve land is often severely impacted by illegal dumping of all kind.

Christopher Curtis

@titocurtis

5 months

🧵We followed the dump trucks unloading soil on Mohawk territory. We found was construction sites across Laval using Indigenous land to dump their refuse. Experts say this persists because Quebec refuses to enforce its own environmental laws.

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@danrueck

8 years

8. Note that this article uncritically employs anti-Indigenous "go west/north young man" trope so integral to settler colonialism.

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@danrueck

8 years

3. Fergus John O'Grady was Oblate missionary at St. Mary's Mission and at Kamloops from 1936-46. Then principal for 6 yrs at Kamloops IRS.

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@danrueck

5 years

"...consistently, over a third of the population continued to prefer that the country be free of Jews. As late as 1955, 48 percent of respondents felt that Hitler would have been one of Germany’s greatest leaders, “but for the war.”

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@danrueck

3 months

@Heidi__Matthews It's also the racist trope that your ownership of the land isn't real if you don't farm it "properly." North American Indigenous people are intimately familiar with this sorry excuse for land theft.

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@danrueck

5 years

"During the first 15 years of the postwar era, German schools buried any mention of the Holocaust or other Nazi atrocities; later, they slowly incorporated such subject matter in the curriculum."

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@danrueck

8 years

9. (in 2013) O'Grady portrayed as plucky frontiers-man, w white-man's burden to save Indig ppl. Juxtapose that w his 1948 letter to parents.

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@danrueck

8 years

2. I saw someone ask a question about whatever happened to Rev. O'Grady so decided to take a quick look.

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@danrueck

5 months

I'm proud to be among the signatories here. Canada needs to meet its international legal obligations and uphold international law

Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

375 law profs, lawyers, legal scholars, academics, civil society, faith & labour movement leaders & former diplomats and parliamentarians have written to @JustinTrudeau calling on Canada to unambiguously support the ICC's work with respect to Palestine 🧵

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@danrueck

5 months

An important thread suggesting that the confluence of multiple crises at @mcgillu isn't an accident but the result of incompetence, arrogance, and racism of university leadership. Much of this could have been easily avoided.

@AMPL/AMPD

@AMPL_AMPD

5 months

After having declined to return to the bargaining table with its law professors for over six weeks, @mcgillu senior administrators abruptly closed yesterday’s one day of bargaining: the only one to which it had agreed in all the months of May, June, and July. 1/21

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@danrueck

9 months

I barely use this any more, but for anyone who is still here, I have a new article in Settler Colonial Studies "The continuity of settler colonial narratives: the diary of a nineteenth-century dominion land surveyor and the enduring language of harm"

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@danrueck

8 years

4. O'Grady then principal at Williams Lake IRS. Appointed 1st bishop of Prince George in 1956, w/ continued involvement in Indian education

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@danrueck

6 months

uOttawa student demands. This university has billions of dollars invested in all sorts of places including companies involved in illegal occupation, surveillance, and murder of Palestinians. These demands are reasonable, and I hope university administrators take them seriously.

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@danrueck

8 years

7. Check out this 2013 article celebrating the life of John Fergus O'Grady. Published during heyday of #IdleNoMore

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@danrueck

8 years

11. That Catholic media continue to publish celebratory stories on people so central to the IRS system & all it represents, is troubling.

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@danrueck

5 months

There has been an virtual encampment of right wing conspiracy theorists and antivaxers on parliament hill for months. The different response is hard to explain, unless it's racism

Leilani Farha 🍉

@leilanifarha

5 months

Ottawa Police have moved in to remove peaceful pro-Palestinian protestors from in front of Parliament Hill. I asked an officer why they're arresting + removing- he said: "Because they're blocking the road. They've been here for hours". Pretty lmtd understanding of free speech!

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@danrueck

8 years

6. O'Grady died in 1998, at Mazenod Residence in Saskatoon, at the age of 89.

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@danrueck

8 years

10. The article also notes O'Grady was "an ardent booster of BC history."

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@danrueck

3 years

The Laws and the Land is available for pre-order at your local bookstore

The Laws and the Land

The Laws and the Land - The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada; The Laws and the Land, an original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between...

www.ubcpress.ca

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@danrueck

3 years

There's a counter plaque to tell another side of the story

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

3 years

Here's my new piece situating Indigenous protest in a history of constant settler land theft, specifically for the #landback action in Kahnawake since summer 2021.

The Shifting Boundaries of Colonial Land Taking: The Continuity of Settler Land Theft and Indigen...

Daniel Rück Non-Indigenous people who encounter Indigenous #LandBack protests are often surprised or taken aback. They may be angry about being inconvenienced on their commute and may even resort t…

activehistory.ca

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

8 years

Got @apihtawikosisan 's book in the mail today--looking forward to introducing my students to her work!

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@danrueck

3 years

Settler historians of previous generations have massively overemphasized the orderliness and lawfulness of Canadian colonialism. Join us on Thursday as I share a bit about the legal and environmental chaos in Kahnawa:ke caused by colonial interventions

McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

@MISCCAN

3 years

This Thursday, join us for a lecture from @danrueck ( @uOttawa ) based on his recent book "The Laws and the Land," about the settler colonial invasion of Kahnawà:ke. 4pm EST, register here for the link:

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@danrueck

3 years

How not to apologize

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

3 years

I join the Canadian Bishops and the whole Catholic Church in Canada in expressing my closeness to the Canadian people, who have been traumatised by shocking discovery of the remains of two hundred and fifteen children, pupils at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

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@danrueck

7 months

The IDF regularly kills humanitarian aid workers in Gaza. This wasn't an accident. The last one wasn't an accident. The next one won't be an accident either. This is the same military that targets journalists and medical workers, and has killed over 10,000 children in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen

@WCKitchen

7 months

We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER.

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@danrueck

1 month

The trend among fearful Canadian university leaders seems to be to try to stifle speech in solidarity with Palestinians facing genocide and to falsely represent these student movements as violent. Here's a powerful response by UNB employeers

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb

1 month

100+ UNB employees respond to the President's statement about social movements on campus. "The letter casts a chill on campus... We take this opportunity to correct your misrepresentation of the two incidents and ask that you retract your statement."

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@danrueck

3 years

I'm looking for a number of films to include in my Canadian Environmental History course. They could be feature films, documentaries, shorts. What would you show to students to help them understand Canadian environmental history?

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@danrueck

4 months

Universities including @mcgillu can trade their fake outrage about the historical photo of a gun for an end to their investments in actual guns and genocide

Ted Rutland

@TedRutland

4 months

McGill students tirelessly turn attention back to the real issue: "The real question is why are people not focusing on the fact that our administration is investing in real guns and real weapons that are currently perpetrating massacres and violence in Gaza as we speak.”

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@danrueck

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12. Here's a man held up by the church as a hero who has roads and schools named after him.

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@danrueck

4 months

Universities that act this way are actively participating in genocide. Not only are McGill, UdeM, and Concordia ignoring the student encampment and protests asking for divestment and boycotts, they are forging ahead with new partnerships that contribute to Palestinian death.

Jason Toney

@jasontoney_

4 months

3 Quebec universities partner with Ben Gurion University in Israel. This week, they launched the Quebec-Israel Universities Entrepreneurship Fund "to encourage joint activities between BGU and Quebec universities" and to "add a new dimension in Quebec-Israel relations"

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@danrueck

5 months

"The Student Encampment Movement is Part of a History of Militant Struggle Against Settler Colonialism" by my University of Ottawa colleague, John Carlson

The Student Encampment Movement is Part of a History of Militant Struggle Against Settler Colonia...

John Carlson on the links between the student encampment movement for Palestinian liberation and Indigenous-led struggle against settler colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine.

www.midnightsunmag.ca

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@danrueck

6 months

It's great to see the university promoting this event so effectively. See you there!

Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa

@uOttawa

6 months

Message to the uOttawa community on freedom of expression. For more information -

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@danrueck

8 years

15. O'Grady founded the Frontier Apostles, as a way to staff IRSs without having to pay them. Former students reported Furlong abused them.

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@danrueck

4 months

It is with great disappointment in my university that I congratulate these brave and principled students who did everything they could to try to move our administration toward a fact-based, ethical stance on its investments in Israel and its genocide.

The Fulcrum

@The_Fulcrum

4 months

BREAKING: U of O encampment for Palestine ends after 71 days Shortly after midnight on July 10, over 2 months since its establishment, the student encampment at the University of Ottawa has begun to come to a conclusion.

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@danrueck

5 years

In Canada it is well-known that residential schools for Indigenous children were infested with rapists. Less well-known: residential schools were used as boot camps for missionary recruits who then went abroad.

Chrissy Stroop

@C_Stroop

5 years

I think we’re going to see many more cases of sexual abuse on the mission field breaking. A missionary doctor whose family attended one of my childhood churches was arrested in a foreign country for sexually assaulting young female patients. This is the tip of the iceberg.

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

9 years

I don't see any traditional white militia territory on this map. #AttackOnOregon

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@danrueck

3 years

I'm looking forward to discussing my new book at @mcgillu next week. Join us! @IIRSuOttawaIREA @uOttawaHistoire

McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

@MISCCAN

3 years

Next week! A lecture from @uOttawa 's Dan Rück on the history of Kahnawake, co-presented with the @mcgillu History Dept. Register now:

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

5 years

@C_Stroop @katiekelaidis "Paul is awful" was also a key emancipatory revelation to me as I emerged from evangelicalism. It was so freeing to be able to say that parts of the Bible suck after having tried so hard for so long to make sense of the whole thing as God's Word.

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@danrueck

2 months

@Arturmaks @uOttawa You can sling all the mud you want. I take issue with my university for hiring a partisan bully for a position that's supposed to promote antiracism and safety for all on our campus.

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Daniel Rück

@danrueck

6 months

Students at University of Ottawa have turned their sit-in into an encampment. It's a peaceful, creative space with food, art, learning, and community. Take a moment to drop in and encourage these principled, well-informed students who are fighting for a better world.

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@danrueck

4 months

Important public history intervention in Ottawa at the former Canadian headquarters of the Oblates, who operated 48 residential schools.

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@danrueck

8 years

Reconciliation in Canada is now apparently whatever uninformed opinion white people want to have about Indig people

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@danrueck

5 years

White privilege can be hard to explain to white people who are suffering. Here it is done very well.

Amanda Golden

@amandawgolden

5 years

A poignant moment at @SenGillibrand 's Youngstown, OH roundtable occurred when a white woman holding her baby asked her about how Dems talk about white privilege while she is still struggling. Gillibrand took a beat, and then answered the woman’s question. Full exchange below:

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