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I am so proud of this podcast! Huge thanks to all our guests, to our producer Taylor Stark & to @girishdaswani.bsky.social for being the incredible host he is (his intro essays, which you can also read on EO, are also superb everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eo-podcast/ )

🐦🚨NEW: UofT Economics is offering a course on "Israeli Economy" taught by a Ben Gurion University in the Neguev visiting professor this fall. The course seeks to ask: "How can one small country teach us about the world's biggest economic questions? 🧵1/

A must-read article by @breachmedia.ca on Canadian universities sharing tips on suppressing speech about Israel’s genocide in Gaza & monitoring faculty & student protests. Not surprised to see YorkU listed.

Look: My dear employer UofT, which waited till the very last minute to divest from South African apartheid back in the days, features prominently in that edifying profile. Plus ça change... 🤡

Emma is a brilliant reporter and an even better human being. It's devastating to lose her labour reporting at PressProgress, and anyone who's encountered her work knows the importance of it continuing. Read her full thread, follow her, support her ⬇️

This is my last working week as the labour reporter at PressProgress. I received notice a little over a week ago that the labour reporter position is being terminated and I’m being laid off.

This was all so obvious and every person in the Biden administration was either too stupid, or too cynical, to admit what was happening. Not a single one of them should come close to holding public office again www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and IranTop officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.www.newyorker.com

"International Court of Justice has directed third States [Canada] not to enter into 'trade dealings with Israel concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory' Letter from MP Salma Zahid to @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social Includes Save on Foods, Urban Fare, Shoppers Drugmart

The first indefinite union-led nursing strike in Canada in 27 years is officially expanding picket lines to Vancouver Island. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday: nurses will be picketing at Vic General, Nanaimo Regional General, and Royal Jubilee hospitals. #yyj Article re: how job action is going so far:

CAWLS annual conference call for proposals - Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action
Brock University, St. Catharines ON, Jun 2-4, 2027 cawls.ca/en/2027-annu...

Why is @naheednenshi.bsky.social meeting with Israel's ambassador to Canada?

Dear god

This was a great conversation about Palestine and North American universities.

Another banger hosted @girishdaswani.bsky.social, with Muhannad, @nkalamb.bsky.social and Heidi speaking TRUTHS!

"The exhibit focuses on the suffering of the Palestinian people from 1948 until today, with text, artifacts and personal stories from Palestinians affected. But completely absent is any acknowledgment that I don’t want to hear about any of that."

“It is absurd that a federally funded Museum of Human Rights would focus on this one alleged Human Rights Violation, instead of all the other ones it also covers.”

Last month, Canada imposed a new round of sanctions on Israeli groups connected to extremist settler violence. One of them has received thousands of dollars from a Toronto-area charity. zurl.co/x9iUG