Derek Sayer
@coastsofbohemia.bsky.social
Author and retired academic. British/Canadian. Unapologetically woke. Loves food, drink, music, travel, and our standard poodles Luci and Alice. Free Palestine! I write at https://substack.com/@dereksayer1
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Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza isn’t peace—it’s an ultimatum. Palestinians are told to disarm, abandon legal claims of genocide, and accept foreign control, while Israel retains the right to “finish the job.” A ceasefire that erases justice is no peace at all, writes @coastsofbohemia.bsky.social.
The rewards of terror
Almost two years after October 7, Gaza lies in ruins. Western governments have condemned the slaughter but continue to shield Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu push a “peace plan” critics see as surre...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza isn’t peace—it’s an ultimatum. Palestinians are told to disarm, abandon legal claims of genocide, and accept foreign control, while Israel retains the right to “finish the job.” A ceasefire that erases justice is no peace at all, writes @coastsofbohemia.bsky.social.
My latest Substack on Gaza. dereksayer.substack.com/p/the-reward...
The rewards of terror
Erasing a genocide with the art of the deal
dereksayer.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
My latest Substack on Gaza. dereksayer.substack.com/p/the-reward...
My latest Canadian Dimension piece. Btw why did it take Anita Anand 2 weeks to call Kim Prost (as she has now done)? canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Oh Canada, where art thou?
Canada once stood apart by challenging apartheid and asserting an independent foreign policy, even against US pressure. Now, as Washington sanctions Canadian ICC judge Kimberly Prost for pursuing Isra...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My latest Canadian Dimension piece. Btw why did it take Anita Anand 2 weeks to call Kim Prost (as she has now done)? canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
I have a new piece in Canadian Dimension on the Gaza genocide. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
A graveyard of liberal illusions
The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It needs also to wake up to the evils it has nurtured not just for the last two years, but for o...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I have a new piece in Canadian Dimension on the Gaza genocide. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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NEW: What’s happening in Gaza isn’t a tragedy, it’s policy. A deliberate effort to erase a people. And the West, fully aware, keeps supplying the weapons and covering with words. This isn’t just happening on Israel’s watch. It’s happening with our permission, writes @coastsofbohemia.bsky.social.
Endgames in Gaza?
What’s unfolding in Gaza is not just a humanitarian crisis—it’s a deliberate, systematic campaign to destroy a population. Mass killings, starvation, and attacks on aid efforts are part of a broader s...
canadiandimension.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
NEW: What’s happening in Gaza isn’t a tragedy, it’s policy. A deliberate effort to erase a people. And the West, fully aware, keeps supplying the weapons and covering with words. This isn’t just happening on Israel’s watch. It’s happening with our permission, writes @coastsofbohemia.bsky.social.
My latest piece on Gaza. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Endgames in Gaza?
What’s unfolding in Gaza is not just a humanitarian crisis—it’s a deliberate, systematic campaign to destroy a population. Mass killings, starvation, and attacks on aid efforts are part of a broader s...
canadiandimension.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My latest piece on Gaza. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Our magnificent wet sock creature.
July 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Our magnificent wet sock creature.
My latest article on the genocide in Gaza: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
July 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My latest article on the genocide in Gaza: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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My new piece on the Gaza war and Israel’s attack on Iran. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Gaslighting the way to World War III
Are we so morally bankrupt that we will allow Netanyahu’s cynical maneuver, an act of naked aggression in flagrant breach of international law, to divert us from our responsibilities to end Israel’s g...
canadiandimension.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My new piece on the Gaza war and Israel’s attack on Iran. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
June 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My latest article on the genocide in Gaza. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
One day, everyone will have always been against this
One of the most remarkable—not to say shameful—features of the last 20 months of carnage in Gaza has been the near-unanimity of support for Israel’s assault from Western governments and political part...
canadiandimension.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My latest article on the genocide in Gaza. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Proud to be one of over 400 Canadian signatories to this open letter to PM Mark Carney and foreign minister Anita Anand on Gaza. Please share. www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...
Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along
We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organ...
www.alexneve.ca
June 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Proud to be one of over 400 Canadian signatories to this open letter to PM Mark Carney and foreign minister Anita Anand on Gaza. Please share. www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...
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Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:
April 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:
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every fucking democrat who says that there was nothing biden or harris could have done to take the question of a FUCKING GENOCIDE off the table before they lost a fucking election over it needs to shut the fuck up forever.
April 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
every fucking democrat who says that there was nothing biden or harris could have done to take the question of a FUCKING GENOCIDE off the table before they lost a fucking election over it needs to shut the fuck up forever.
What does it tell you about the contemporary US—its people, its culture, its education system, its self-images—that it has contrived to elect two demented psychopaths in succession to the highest office in the land? It’s terrifying.
April 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
What does it tell you about the contemporary US—its people, its culture, its education system, its self-images—that it has contrived to elect two demented psychopaths in succession to the highest office in the land? It’s terrifying.
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see this is the problem with liberals
it's all about the veneer of respectability with you, not the actual crimes against humanity
Biden simply aided Israel in a genocide
But Trump wants to build a resort once the rubble has been cleared and the bodies buried? oh, now that's a bridge too far
it's all about the veneer of respectability with you, not the actual crimes against humanity
Biden simply aided Israel in a genocide
But Trump wants to build a resort once the rubble has been cleared and the bodies buried? oh, now that's a bridge too far
April 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
see this is the problem with liberals
it's all about the veneer of respectability with you, not the actual crimes against humanity
Biden simply aided Israel in a genocide
But Trump wants to build a resort once the rubble has been cleared and the bodies buried? oh, now that's a bridge too far
it's all about the veneer of respectability with you, not the actual crimes against humanity
Biden simply aided Israel in a genocide
But Trump wants to build a resort once the rubble has been cleared and the bodies buried? oh, now that's a bridge too far
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JUST IN: After criticism, the National Park Service has restored an old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman.
After a backlash, National Park Service restores old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman | CNN
The National Park Service seems to have returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, following backlash after her presence on the page was dramatical...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
JUST IN: After criticism, the National Park Service has restored an old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman.
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I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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To sum up: An estimated 5 million people protested in 50 states but the stories were deliberately relegated to the back of most major newspapers.
April 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
To sum up: An estimated 5 million people protested in 50 states but the stories were deliberately relegated to the back of most major newspapers.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Go back in time and tell yourself that one day the fucking MTA will do more to stand up to authoritarianism than Congress, the Supreme Court, and Columbia University *combined*
Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands
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MTA, feds agree to keep NYC congestion pricing tolls through October
The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement to keep New York City congestion pricing through October.
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April 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Go back in time and tell yourself that one day the fucking MTA will do more to stand up to authoritarianism than Congress, the Supreme Court, and Columbia University *combined*
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Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
April 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.