The entire Advisory Council of #ConcordiaUniversity ’s Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery have resigned in protest of administration’s unjust dismissal of Director Pip Day, citing donor intimidation and censorship over Palestine. #NoBusinessAsUsual #Montreal #censorship #antipalestinianracism

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

Academics for Palestine - Concordia@a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 2y ago

On Jan. 9, Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal joined us for a powerful artist talk & protest against #ConcordiaUniversity administration's unjust dismissal of curator Pip Day, the now-former Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery due to her pro-Palestine programming. #Montreal

'Beaten before release': Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners casts shadow on celebrations - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/celebrations-palestinians-released-israeli-detention-tainted-worry

'Beaten before release': Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners casts shadow on celebrations

Former detainees recounted abuse, violence and humiliation, even up to a few hours before they were released

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On Jan. 9, Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal joined us for a powerful artist talk & protest against #ConcordiaUniversity administration's unjust dismissal of curator Pip Day, the now-former Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery due to her pro-Palestine programming. #Montreal

Absolutely horrific, please amplify: Palestinian student assaulted in the Hall building - Christopher Bahnan condemns Concordia’s refusal to send out a warning to students following his assault in December. #Montreal #ConcordiaUniversity #antipalestinianracism theconcordian.com/2025/01/pale...

Absolutely horrific, please amplify: Palestinian student assaulted in the Hall building - Christopher Bahnan condemns Concordia’s refusal to send out a warning to students following his assault in December. #Montreal #ConcordiaUniversity #antipalestinianracism theconcordian.com/2025/01/pale...

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

Montréal | La vitrine d’un commerce brisée par un impact de balle

Un commerce situé à une centaine de mètres de la station de métro Guy-Concordia a vraisemblablement été atteint par un coup de feu.

lapresse.ca

"Perceptage agents have been accused of physically assaulting students while stationed at pro-Palestine demonstrations. According to a video posted on Nov. 22, officers were seen aggressively pushing students away from picketing actions and into the stairway of the Henry F. Hall building" #montreal

Concordia hires external security firm founded by ex-Israeli soldier | News

Concordia University spent $33,683 on services by an external security firm founded by an ex-Israeli soldier.

thelinknewspaper.ca

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."

Activists back US professor ‘forced’ from Columbia over Palestine advocacy

Katherine Franke says she was forced to retire over her views critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

aljazeera.com

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

Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies - Concordia University

concordia.ca

Regards Palestiniens@regardspal.bsky.social · 2y ago

️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥 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

Trudeau resigns, leaving a rotten political legacy that concluded with helping to fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza. www.readthemaple.com/fuelling-gen...

Fuelling Genocide: Trudeau’s Bloody Record On Gaza

An assessment of the Trudeau government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

readthemaple.com

"A two-part initiative designed to help Sites of Conscience and their allies build a better understanding of what has led to the situation in #Palestine today, encourage critical thinking, and inspire action towards building more peaceful societies everywhere."

Why Memory Matters in Palestine and Beyond - Sites of Conscience

An image from the 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba. Photo credit: CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Why Memory Matters in...

sitesofconscience.org

👏👏👏 : NEW YORK CITY—American Historical Association members attending the group’s annual conference voted 428 to 88 Sunday to approve a resolution opposing “scholasticide” in #Gaza and the U.S. government’s funding of Israel’s war.

AHA convention attendees oppose "scholasticide" in Gaza

The measure now goes to the group’s elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organization’s 10,000-plus full membership.

insidehighered.com

horrors upon horrors.

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 2y ago

The Israeli army raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, with more than 350 people inside at the time of the attack. Female staff told journalists that they were forced to strip off their clothes by soldiers and were beaten if they refused. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/all-contact-lost…

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

Rachel Bendayan is a Zionist and should not be in any position related to public safety.

Le Devoir@ledevoir.com · 2y ago

Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a nommé les Québécoises Rachel Bendayan et Élisabeth Brière parmi une poignée de nouveaux ministres vendredi, dans un remaniement ministériel qui survient en pleine crise de son leadership.

Human Rights Watch insists on using terms like ‘crimes of apartheid’ and ‘acts of genocide’ instead of straightforwardly saying, ‘Israel is an apartheid state that is committing genocide.’

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

Twins killed in Gaza after Ontario university acceptance were 'vibrant,' 'full of dreams,' family says | CBC News

The University of Waterloo community is mourning after twin sisters who were set to enter a PhD program in Ontario were killed this month in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war. Their family says the two “...

cbc.ca

️‍🔥 "The Hive Café Solidarity Co-operative stands in solidarity with the movement for the liberation of #Palestine, and to all #ConcordiaUniversity students and community members who demonstrate against the complicity of our institutions at all levels in supporting an ongoing genocide."

Open Letter: We now declare The Hive a police-free zone | Letters

We, the directors of The Hive Café, are writing to express our condemnation of the events of Dec. 3.

thelinknewspaper.ca

437.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2y ago

436 days of genocide.

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

7,000+ AUTHORS AND BOOK WORKERS JOIN HISTORIC BOYCOTT AGAINST COMPLICIT ISRAELI PUBLISHERS — The Palestine Festival of Literature

Thousands Join Pledge for Palestinian Rights since October

palfest.org

"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."

‘Do you value life, SJSU?’: longtime professor resigns over San Jose State University support for Gaza genocide

“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 seri...

mondoweiss.net

This is not good.

NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine@nyufsjp.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NYU Faculty Arrested for Supporting Students in Peaceful Pro-Palestine Protests. Faculty Also Declared Personae Non Grata and Banned from Campus. NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2024 –

"[T]he response of universities, with their long standing reputations of creating space for intellectual engagement and dissent, stands out. Faculty at Columbia and other universities have described a growing climate of academic suppression."

Universities are continuing to retaliate against staff for participating in Gaza campus protests

Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen ac...

mondoweiss.net

Signed this recently as a Concordia alum. Put pressure on.

Academics for Palestine - Concordia@a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 2y ago

1,100+ signatures & counting: If you're an academic; a member of the #Montreal community; or a member of the #ConcordiaUniversity community, please consider signing this open letter. We'll be submitting it to admin within the next few hours.

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

1,100+ signatures & counting: If you're an academic; a member of the #Montreal community; or a member of the #ConcordiaUniversity community, please consider signing this open letter. We'll be submitting it to admin within the next few hours.

Academics for Palestine - Concordia@a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/3 - SIGN-ON LETTER: #ConcordiaUniversity must drop Israeli-linked security and surveillance firm! Open to the Concordia community (inc. alumni) + local and international academics + *all* members of the #Montreal community. Please sign and share! tinyurl.com/sign-on-letter-link