Girish Daswani
@girishdaswani.bsky.social
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"The Munk School isn’t just an external bystander; it functions as the institutional partner & academic anchor of these debates.By allowing this platform to frame the future of 🇵🇸 as merely an ‘🇮🇱 vs🇮🇱’ internal matter, your institution actively supports the erasure of Palestinian self-determination"3/
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"The Munk School isn’t just an external bystander; it functions as the institutional partner & academic anchor of these debates.By allowing this platform to frame the future of 🇵🇸 as merely an ‘🇮🇱 vs🇮🇱’ internal matter, your institution actively supports the erasure of Palestinian self-determination"3/
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"...and the responsibility lies squarely with the University of Toronto and its leadership. Janice Stein, as the Founding Director of the Munk School and its key intellectual voice, you are central to this calculated political move." 2/
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"...and the responsibility lies squarely with the University of Toronto and its leadership. Janice Stein, as the Founding Director of the Munk School and its key intellectual voice, you are central to this calculated political move." 2/
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REPOST from @jewssayno.bsky.social's ig: "This isn’t just a “messed up debate”—it’s a calculated institutional betrayal. The @munkdebates’ decision to host a two-state solution discussion featuring ZERO Palestinian voices is a gross abuse of an academic platform..." 1/
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
REPOST from @jewssayno.bsky.social's ig: "This isn’t just a “messed up debate”—it’s a calculated institutional betrayal. The @munkdebates’ decision to host a two-state solution discussion featuring ZERO Palestinian voices is a gross abuse of an academic platform..." 1/
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Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
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In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
Acknowledging the #anthropologists who could not or did not attend the @americananthro.bsky.social meeting due to fear of being detained at the border or turned around, to not having an American passport, to being denied their visa, to not having sufficient funds, to taking a principled stance.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Acknowledging the #anthropologists who could not or did not attend the @americananthro.bsky.social meeting due to fear of being detained at the border or turned around, to not having an American passport, to being denied their visa, to not having sufficient funds, to taking a principled stance.
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🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The professor invited by UBC describes his work as an "archaeology of military occupation”, cites Foucault, but does not see the contradictions of working on an archaeological site built on ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village and next to one of the largest prisons for Palestinians👇
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
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UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
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November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The professor invited by UBC describes his work as an "archaeology of military occupation”, cites Foucault, but does not see the contradictions of working on an archaeological site built on ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village and next to one of the largest prisons for Palestinians👇
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When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
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Will anyone at this year's conference ask for ASOR to be held to account for its active complicity with the archaeology-washing of apartheid and genocide in Palestine? How are they complicit, you might ask? Here's a refresher 🧵 1/
The ASOR 2025 Annual Meeting begins today in Boston & online! Join scholars for 4 days of sessions, workshops, and celebration—starting tonight with the Opening & Plenary Session feat. Dr. Timothy P. Harrison.
Welcome to #ASOR25, celebrating 125 years of archaeological research and collaboration.
Welcome to #ASOR25, celebrating 125 years of archaeological research and collaboration.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Will anyone at this year's conference ask for ASOR to be held to account for its active complicity with the archaeology-washing of apartheid and genocide in Palestine? How are they complicit, you might ask? Here's a refresher 🧵 1/
What happens when the university you work for allows genociders to work alongside you and to teach students? Is the university also complicit when they allowed this Engineering professor to make several trips, to murder innocent women, children, men in Palestine, and to return to teach in Toronto?
🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
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Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
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UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide and Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Dr Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What happens when the university you work for allows genociders to work alongside you and to teach students? Is the university also complicit when they allowed this Engineering professor to make several trips, to murder innocent women, children, men in Palestine, and to return to teach in Toronto?
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What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
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This week! Make sure to register online!
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
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co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
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Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This week! Make sure to register online!
Our panel "From Accra with Laughter" is now available. Ghanaian artist Bright Ackwerh speaks about his decade long sociopolitical commentary on Ghana and the African continent. This conversation was sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute's Program for the Arts.
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From Accra with Laughter: An art talk with Bright Ackwerh
YouTube video by Human Stories
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October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our panel "From Accra with Laughter" is now available. Ghanaian artist Bright Ackwerh speaks about his decade long sociopolitical commentary on Ghana and the African continent. This conversation was sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute's Program for the Arts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbQ...
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Open letter opposing US military incursions & reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. In the words of the late Barbadian PM Errol Barrow, “we are satellites of none,’ and in the words of the late Grenadian PM Maurice Bishop, “we are in nobody’s backyard” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
OPEN LETTER OPPOSING US MILITARY INCURSIONS AND REAFFIRMING THE CARIBBEAN AS A ZONE OF PEACE
We, Caribbean advocates for equality, security and development within and between States, note with grave concern the recent incursions by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea. This signifies egreg...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Open letter opposing US military incursions & reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. In the words of the late Barbadian PM Errol Barrow, “we are satellites of none,’ and in the words of the late Grenadian PM Maurice Bishop, “we are in nobody’s backyard” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I wish nothing but misery on the agents who talked to him. Nothing. But. Neverending. MISERY.
October 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I wish nothing but misery on the agents who talked to him. Nothing. But. Neverending. MISERY.
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This is pretty jaw-dropping stuff.
🐦🔎 The findidfsoldiers.net database lists five doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One went to serve after Oct. 7, 2023:
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October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is pretty jaw-dropping stuff.
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2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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1/ I’m testifying on university complicity in genocide on Saturday, October 25th at the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul:
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Home - Gaza Tribunal
How Tribunal Operates Chambers Steering Committee Administrative & Supportive Units More Updates Finance Calendar
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October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
1/ I’m testifying on university complicity in genocide on Saturday, October 25th at the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul:
gazatribunal.com
gazatribunal.com
What does it mean for IOF soldiers to teach Medicine in Canadian universities? How aligned is one’s service in an occupation/genocidal army with the Hippocratic oath and with Canadian universities and hospitals commitment to safety, equity and equality? See Sparrows4P 👇
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Canadian Doctors & Medical Educators in the IOF
One went to serve after October 7, 2023
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October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What does it mean for IOF soldiers to teach Medicine in Canadian universities? How aligned is one’s service in an occupation/genocidal army with the Hippocratic oath and with Canadian universities and hospitals commitment to safety, equity and equality? See Sparrows4P 👇
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substack.com/home/post/p-...
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🐦🔎 Complicit Israeli universities in their own words:
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🐦🔎 Complicit Israeli universities in their own words:
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
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🐦🔎 Quick answer: Deep. Very deep:
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October 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🐦🔎 Quick answer: Deep. Very deep:
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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.
When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.
How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
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.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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.
When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.
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This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Sharing an important resource on APR, Islamophobia, and Israeli partnerships on Canadian University campuses -by the Expert Task Force report on genocide complicity and repression of Palestine solidarity at universities across Canada. The report is available at www.institutionalcomplicity.ca.
Palestine at Canadian Universities
www.institutionalcomplicity.ca
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sharing an important resource on APR, Islamophobia, and Israeli partnerships on Canadian University campuses -by the Expert Task Force report on genocide complicity and repression of Palestine solidarity at universities across Canada. The report is available at www.institutionalcomplicity.ca.
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How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
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
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...