Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

roxanne panchasi

@rpanchasi.bsky.social

3.6K followers 1.1K following 1.1K posts

assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france/empire/culture; nuclear weapons & power; world endings; founding host-new books in french studies; co-editor, journal of the WSFH; brown; settler; NOT my employer roxannepanchasi.com ——FREE PALESTINE——

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 11h

editing an academic journal for the past three years has been such a humbling experience and a profound exercise in seeing and understanding the other

2 16

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 1d

"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation."

proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

Planning Against Palestine • Protean Magazine

In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.

proteanmag.com

9 15

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 1d

lit profs cage fighting with words - would watch

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 2d

✔️

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 7d

Please sign the petition calling for Tom Alter's reinstatement. Explanation at the link where you can sign.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter On September 10th, 2025, Dr. Tom Alter, a respected and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired for remarks he made at a social...

docs.google.com

1 17 19

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Israel’s Prime Minister and former Defense Minister are wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity — including using starvation as a weapon of war and deliberately directing attacks on civilians.

Israel has been found to have committed genocide in Gaza...

Aaron Rupar via X (@atrupar): "Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: 'Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel.'"

2 32 79

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 3d

lol

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 3d

"Gaza’s vegetation, too, is largely dead. UNEP [United Nations Environment Program] has said that 97% of tree crops, 95% of shrubs and 82% of annual crops are gone."

Drone footage above Gaza City shows the toll of 2 years of war

New drone footage shows what remains of Gaza City after two years of war as a ceasefire holds in its second day.

apnews.com

1 11 12

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social · 4d

The McGill Association of University Teachers just endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, with over 90% of voters supporting the motion.

Be it resolved that we, the members of MAUT, endorse the Academic and Cultural
Boycott of Israel.
Be it further resolved that we call upon McGill’s administration to take all necessary
steps to implement the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, while ensuring that the
boycott applies to institutional partnerships and agreements, not individual Israeli
academics.
This resolution will sunset in two years unless it is renewed or extended by the
membership of MAUT at another General Meeting.

Resolution to Endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Whereas, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has declared that “Israel’s
policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the
United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (1948)”;1
Whereas, the International Court of Justice has found that Israel’s actions plausibly
constitute violations under the Genocide Convention, and leading international
organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have
described Israel as maintaining a system of apartheid;2
Whereas, in May 2025 the United Nations documented that Israel’s campaign of
scholasticide has destroyed every university in Gaza and killed at least 5,479 students
(as of April 2024) and over 190 university academic staff (as of May 2025);3
Whereas, the complicity of Israeli academic institutions in denying Palestinian human
rights has been comprehensively documented;4
Whereas, McGill has current exchange agreements with four Israeli universities,5 as well
as coordinating a three-week study trip with Hebrew University Business School (under
the banner of the McGill-Israel Entrepreneurship Program);6
Whereas, every one of these partner universities is a pillar of Israel’s system of
apartheid, colonization, and military occupation directed against the Palestinian people
in contravention to international law;7
Whereas, in 2005, 170 Palestinian civil society organizations called for boycott,
divestment, and sanctions against Israel;8

Whereas, that call has been interpreted by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic
and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) to call for a boycott of Israeli academic
institutions, not individual Israeli academics;9
Whereas over the past two years, at least 18 University Faculty Associations in Canada
passed motions calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the state of Israel
given its ongoing military assault on Gaza;10
Whereas CAUT has reaffirmed that faculty associations have the right to hold political
and even partisan positions and to pass motions calling for boycott and/or divestment
and/or sanctions of the State of Israel;11
Whereas in 1985, McGill became the first Canadian university to announce it would
divest from companies with ties to Apartheid South Africa,12 and in 2006 McGill
divested from companies in Myanmar;13
Whereas in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, MAUT examined its financial
portfolio in view of divestment from Russian companies;14
Whereas, MAUT has a history of calling upon foreign governments to end their
campaigns against universities and to protect academic freedom;15
Whereas, as a faculty association, MAUT has a duty to stand in solidarity with scholars
whose academic freedom and right to education are under attack; therefore,

3 7

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

Video shows rescuers pulling a Palestinian boy from the rubble of his home in Gaza City. Israeli forces attacked the house on Thursday after the approval of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

25 300 540

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 4d

@ruhistorydept.bsky.social 🎓♥️🖤

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 5d

Now that a ceasefire agreement has been called humanitarian & medical aid should be allowed to flow into Gaza without impediment. We call for the release of all prisoners, for the free flow of aid & release of all humanitarians who travelled on the Flotillas including the 6 Canadian passport holders

12 32

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 5d

a neighbour saw me carrying my regalia for fall convocation and asked me if it was a lord farquaad costume for halloween fml

Read and black academic regalia hanging from a French door.

2 4 76

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 5d

return of the repressed lol

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 5d

It’s one of those weird science annexes in a parking lot so totally fair not to remember it!

1 1

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 5d

@johnmunro.bsky.social i know you know exactly where this is too!

1 2

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 5d

sometimes it’s the little things that bring us joy

A white Tesla parked in an absurd place -at an angle close to a building and blocking a foot path and stairway-with a yellow parking boot on its front wheel.

2 15

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 5d

@sfufass.bsky.social @sfulinguistics.bsky.social @sfuindg.bsky.social @sfueducation.bsky.social @sfu.ca

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to SFU’s Indigenous graduates celebrating their achievements at today‘s Honouring Feast.

A collection of traditional cedar headbands with black and red backing laid out on a table.

1 1 13

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 7d

CC @rpanchasi.bsky.social I am playing The Specials "A Message to Rudy" in class today. I am thinking of you and your crew! 🫂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntv...

The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO

www.youtube.com

1 8

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 8d

Last week, our former fact-checker and colleague Alex Colston was detained by the Israeli military while reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla. We join @dropsitenews.com in calling for the release of Alex and all Flotilla participants.

Drop Site Urges the Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants, Including Drop Site Journalist Alex Colston

All of us at Drop Site News are deeply disturbed by the reports of inhumane and abusive treatment of nonviolent activists and journalists detained by the Israeli military while on board the Global Sum...

www.dropsitenews.com

10 20

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 9d

Today the mayor of Vancouver called me an antisemitic terrorist supporter. Here is my speech:

This isn’t controversial
Being against what the UN calls a genocide is not controversial
Being against apartheid is not controversial

19 88 460

Reposted by roxanne panchasi

COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 9d

Ken Sim killed the city's Equity Office.

Now, less than a week later, he's retweeting far-right residential school denialists and anti-LGBT activists.

Evict Ken Sim.

CTV News | City of Vancouver shutters Equity Office

@TheSerfsTV - "How do you think it's appropriate for an elected mayor to be amplifying a far right conspiracist and genocide denial account?"

Screenshot- "The New West Times," recently retweeted by Ken Sim to criticized anti-genocide protestors, promoting a residental school denalism film.

8 23

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 8d

sometimes love letters are sweet and i think that’s what this is

roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 8d

idk how it’s been 30 years since mad professor vs. massive attack came out but at 70 this man is pretty incredible…