Regards Palestiniens

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

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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.

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."

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.

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

Anyone can fill in this form, whether you are a member of staff, a director, or a board member of a cultural org. Any information will help us in this process. Later this month we will announce a new list of orgs that have committed to PACBI, building on the 22 endorsements announced last fall.

Visual featuring white and red text on a black background that reads: Nationwide PACBI Survey - for cultural organizations in "Canada" What is your organizations relationship to PACBI? Already endorsed PACBI? In the process of endorsing PACBI? Would like more information about PACBI? Needs help to restart endorsing PACBI? Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment and fill out the nationwide PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called "Canada"

Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment to fill out the nationwide #PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called “Canada" : tinyurl.com/PACBI-SURVEY

Anyone can fill in this form, whether you are a member of staff, a director, or a board member of a cultural org. Any information will help us in this process. Later this month we will announce a new list of orgs that have committed to PACBI, building on the 22 endorsements announced last fall.

Visual featuring white and red text on a black background that reads: Nationwide PACBI Survey - for cultural organizations in "Canada" What is your organizations relationship to PACBI? Already endorsed PACBI? In the process of endorsing PACBI? Would like more information about PACBI? Needs help to restart endorsing PACBI? Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment and fill out the nationwide PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called "Canada"

Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment to fill out the nationwide #PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called “Canada" : tinyurl.com/PACBI-SURVEY

"Past and present Board members of the Azrieli network represent ties to illegal weaponry research (via Weizmann Institute), Israeli military intelligence, and efforts to ‘rebrand’ the image of Israel, donating $25k annually to Honest Reporting Canada."

"The Azrieli Group has holdings in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Azrieli Group also continues to profit from the colonization of the occupied Palestinian territories through its shares in Bank Leumi."

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

Promo event poster for an artist talk featuring Palestinian artist and filmmaker Rehab Nazzal at Concordia University (downtown campus) this coming Thursday January 9th at 6pm. Location: EV 1.605. White background with a thin red border + a red, green and black traced image of a deaf girl named Amal from northern Gaza who was featured in Nazzal's brilliant documentary film 'Vibrations From Gaza'. She is holding her arms out in a 'power' pose.

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

Call on Arts Institutions to Cut Ties with the Azrieli Foundation! Sign up to get involved in efforts by arts and culture workers in solidarity with Palestine.

To sign on to the letter and/or get involved: tinyurl.com/NoAzrieli #palestine #PACBI

️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥 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

‘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...

"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."

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

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

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 “...

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

"The [PACBI] solidarity campaign, heeding the call from Palestinian civil society, takes aim at institutional complicity, not the identity or national origin of any individuals or groups of people."

An image composite featuring a background photo of an Indigo Kids store display, with an overlay of 4 square slides that read (from left to right): 1. Your purchase makes Indigo CEO richer 2. Indigo CEO is a Director of HESEG Foundation 3. HESEG recruits mercenaries to the Israeli military 4. Israeli military commits genocide against innocent children

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

This photo is of remnants of a drone missile that melted a car in Tubas, north #WestBank, the passengers were sitting beside it, two were killed, and the third was severely injured and kidnapped from a hospital."

This photo is close up image of a child's hand holding the remnants of a drone missile that melted a car in Tubas, north West Bank, the passengers were sitting beside it, two were killed, and the third was severely injured and kidnapped from a hospital.

via Rehab Nazzal: Israel has been testing weapons in Gaza since '08. After each of the 5 onslaughts on the Strip between '08 - '23, [they] marketed weapons to international regimes as 'tested & proved'. Over the past 14months, new weapons have been used, the latest of which melts flesh and bones.

Gaslight, deny, repeat | Opinions Students respond to the hypocrisy of Concordia University’s call “to denounce violence in all its forms” while the university still supports genocide in Palestine.

🔥 from The Link: #ConcordiaUniversity "refuses to address the real issues at hand—its complicity in violence, its financial ties to colonialism and war profiteers, and its silence in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people." #montreal #bds

It's about time!

PEN America endorses the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) PEN America today announced that it has joined the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and committed to complying with the guidelines for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cu...

️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥 #PACBI #BDS

"Though this endorsement is an extraordinary measure, it is not the first time that PEN America has stood with besieged writers, as we have done for writers silenced by the South African apartheid regime and for Ukrainian writers under assault by Russia."

#ConcordiaUniversity, are you not ashamed?

Sign our open letter demanding that Concordia immediately end their contract with Perceptage, a security contractor run by a former IDF soldier: tinyurl.com/Sign-On-Lett...

#montreal #palestine #endthegenocide #idfoffcampus

And this is tomorrow night! #cinema #montreal

Next Wednesday! #montreal #lebanesecinema #foodsovereignty #resistance #documentaries

Open to local and international academic communities + Concordia community incl. alumni.

Please sign if you can and help us send #ConcordiaUniversity a message that the IOF does not belong on our university campuses! #montreal #palestine #copsoffcampus #idfoffcampus

1 of 4 - Open Letter Slide that reads: We, the undersigned Concordia faculty, students, staff, alumni; members of the Montreal community; as well as members of the broader Canadian and international academic community are deeply shocked and appalled by Concordia University's decision to hire the contractor Perceptage for the purpose of policing, surveillance, and targeting their students. Since October 7, 2023, the university administration has called for a “safe and respectful” space for all, “where we can debate, discuss and explore different, even polarizing, ideas”. Yet we now know that the university hired a security contractor run by a former IDF soldier. Furthermore, employees of this firm who have been coordinating activities with Concordia security include former IDF soldiers or reservists and veterans of the Canadian military. The presence of this Israeli-linked security company on Concordia's campus further intensifies a climate of intimidation, repression and violence that those standing in solidarity with Palestine have been enduring.

2 of 4 - Open Letter Slide that reads: For over a year, thousands of Concordia University students have mobilized in support of Palestine and in opposition to what the International Court of Justice has described as a plausible genocide in Gaza. Students and their organizations have repeatedly demanded that the university disclose its investments and divest from Israeli apartheid. The university administration has consistently refused students' demands and claimed political neutrality. However, Concordia's decision to contract an Israel-linked security contractor, whose CEO supports Israel's ongoing occupation and war crimes, starkly exposes its one-sided position. In this context, the university's stated commitment to decolonization and to equity, diversity and inclusion rings hollow and hypocritical.

3 of 4 - Open Letter Slide that reads: The presence of this security company, above and beyond the already heightened policing on campus, is traumatizing for Palestinian and Lebanese members of Concordia's community, many of whom have lost family or have family presently facing displacement, siege and starvation. The militarization of Concordia's campus is also triggering for other BIPOC and 2+LGBTQ members, especially considering that Concordia's Campus Safety and Prevention Services coordinate regularly with Montreal's Police Services (SPVM) - a police force who were, as recently as September 2024, found to be engaged in systematic racial profiling by a Quebec Superior Court judge.

4 of 4 - Open Letter Slide that reads: The decision by the Concordia administration to hire Perceptage undermines the community-building work which is so vital at this moment in the history of the university. Heightened security and militarized policing should not be the way the university interfaces with its students, staff and faculty. We, the undersigned, request an immediate end to the contract with Perceptage, and call for full transparency into who was involved in hiring this company and what procedures were followed to procure its services.

3/3 - Here is our open letter to #ConcordiaUniversity, feel free to share the slides! #montreal #palestine #idfoffcampus #copsoffcampus