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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3m

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Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 4h

🐦🎓🫶🏻🇵🇸Welcome to Sparrows for Palestine! Our collective gathers university members who care about our institutions ending their complicity in the apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian People by disclosing, divesting from and cutting institutional ties with complicit Israeli institutions.

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Girish Daswani @girishdaswani.bsky.social · 3h

Rather than limiting or cutting ties with Israeli institutions (which play an important role in providing logistics, manpower, and research to support the genocide) UofT has intensified connections to and collaborations with Israel. See "Sparrows for Palestine" substack.com/home/post/p-... [1/3]

How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become?

Quick answer: Very, very much.

substack.com

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mānas @manas-0.bsky.social · 3h

canada's post-secondary institutions are christofascist, zionist, and now full of hindutva

there is no “fighting fascism” here
it is already deeply fascist

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4h

The University of Toronto has made a consistent point of surveilling and disciplining faculty members critical of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.

Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 4h

How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4h

The University of Toronto has made a consistent point of surveilling and disciplining faculty members critical of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.

Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 4h

How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...

How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become?

Quick answer: Very, very much.

sparrows4palestine.substack.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4h

This is entirely fair critique. Where were these Columbia faculty members when Mohamed Abdou needed them?

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11h

What an offensive statement from so-called historians. There have been others who have been chased out of the country. Mohamed Abdou was deported for his teaching about Gaza…and he was a prof AT COLUMBIA! But he was queer, Muslim, brown & untenured. Do only white straight tenured profs get sympathy?

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Dawn Ages 🇹🇹 @dawn.duhado.com · 5h

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

WTF is the head of FIFA doing at the summit?

FIFA President Gianni Infantino attending Donald Trump’s so-called “Gaza peace summit” in Egypt.

But sure, tell us again how “football and politics don’t mix.”
Absolutely insane.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 14h

“Over the last two years, the western media has failed to properly hold Israel to account. Journalists have largely failed to scrutinise their own governments' involvement….”

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Full story:

www.thenational.scot/news/2553687...

The National's front page today: How genocide happened

THERE has been a sense of relief these past few days from Palestinians and their allies thanks to the long-awaited ceasefire agreement.

www.thenational.scot

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14h

canadian media would never have this courage

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 18h

They take genuine pleasure in torturing people and a political culture that has long ago normalised this will not stop unless forced to

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 18h

Really looks like that summit was merely an opportunity for men - and I think they were all men? - to make sure they were close to Trump while Trump was happy

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

WTF is the head of FIFA doing at the summit?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18h

As someone who is descended from Holocaust survivors I find this offensive af. Israel and the Zionist project is distinct from the Holocaust even if they do try to appropriate it.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19h

How about no genocide.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19h

I’m sorry, what?

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Malak @malak61.bsky.social · 1d

The war may have ended, but our suffering continues. Our home was destroyed, and we have been living in a tent for over a year. We are struggling to rebuild our lives from nothing. Your support means the world to us.You are our hope to start again.
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/142381

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 21h

Genuinely evil

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 1d

In tomorrow's paper: As Israel continues to deny genocide after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words from Israeli politicians and media showing how the atrocity came to pass.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19h

Exceptionally well done.

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Geoff Pigman @geoffpigman.bsky.social · 19h

Is there any depth to which Infantino won't sink...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

WTF is the head of FIFA doing at the summit?

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 19h

There is a non-zero chance that the entirety of the world gymnastics championship gets canceled because of this decision.

Court of Arbitration of Sports ruling should come on Tuesday.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships.

This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.

apnews.com/article/indo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will block Israeli athletes from competing at the upcoming gymnastics world championships in Jakarta, a government official said Thursday.

The decision to deny visas to the Israeli athletes comes after their planned participation had sparked intense opposition in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, which has long been a staunch supporter of Palestinians.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

Truth telling.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 1d

a massive development in the US is how a plurality (roughly) of Americans reached the same conclusion as the UN/etc. that Israel’s committing genocide, despite the censorship/rationalization of these statements in mainstream discourse. Something changed; the aftermath of the change is anyone‘s guess

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Reid Maltby 🇵🇸🍉 @rmaltby.bsky.social · 23h

Never Again
*certain conditions apply

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Remind me of the conditions placed on the families of the released Israeli captives?

Israeli occupation have barred families of Palestinian captives from celebrating or speaking to press after their loved ones are released. They have also dropped leaflets on the homes of prisoners’ families that read:

“The Israeli security forces will not allow demonstrations in support of terrorist organizations.

Anyone who takes part in such activities exposes themselves to questioning, punishment, and arrest.

You have been warned — we are watching you closely.”

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 23h

Someone among the people the NPR broadcast last night kept referring to as "detainees" and while they spoke about Israeli hostages.

Detainee implies they committed a crime; hostage (rightly) implies innocence. Why would a "neutral" news source deem Israeli prisoners innocent and not Palestinians?

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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 23h

What a front page!

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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