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A reading list on Palestinian refusal
On the tail end of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, these articles, books, and podcasts demonstrate Palestinians’ strong spirit of refusal.
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The birds shall return: Imagining Palestinian feminist futurities
Envisioning a liberated Palestine means imagining liberated Palestinian women. What is a Palestinian feminist future, and how do we get there?
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Khalil Abu Yahia: Dispatch from Palestine on COVID-19
“If you don’t put the maximum pressure on Israel to lift the siege right now, Gaza will become a graveyard.” Khalil Abu Yahia, a 24 year-old English teacher in Gaza City, reflects on life under the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Asmaa Tayeh: Dispatch from Palestine on COVID-19
“We don’t have the capacity or equipment to keep us safe from this virus. It will spread very easily, and we will start to see the numbers here that we’ve been seeing in Italy and Spain.” Asmaa Tayeh, living in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in the north of the Gaza strip, reflects on life under the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fighting antisemitism today
Why did IfNotNow Toronto have to defend their antisemitism training against other Jews? The answer lies in the left and the right’s competing definitions of antisemitism.
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The new Jewish left
While antisemitic hate crimes increase in Canada, there’s been a resurgence of the Jewish left – led by young people, rooted in solidarity with other marginalized communities, focused on ending the Israeli occupation, and held together by new articulations of Jewish community and ritual.
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The war on boycotts
Jason Kenney is borrowing from Israel’s anti-BDS playbook to take down environmentalists who threaten Alberta’s oil industry
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Making a killing
Palestinian workers in illegal Israeli settlements are calling for boycotts of Israeli goods – even though it may mean they lose their jobs
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Start-up nation, apartheid state
Israeli R&D companies and their Canadian collaborators that appear to work toward clean energy or life-saving medical technologies are part of an economic infrastructure that both extends the physical occupation of Palestine and normalizes the inevitability of the Israeli state.
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Who will commemorate the Nakba in Canada?
Trudeau recently celebrated the birthday of Israel while remaining silent on the 700,000 Palestinians that were driven out of their homes. Why is the Canadian government so dead-set on ignoring Israel’s past and present human rights abuses?
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Talking Back to the Citizenship Oath
What is expected of people at the Canadian citizenship ceremony?
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Bombardier in Israel
Bombardier is contracted to supply trains for a high-speed rail line in Israel that will travel across the Green Line and through the occupied West Bank – a blatant violation of international law. While Palestinians are fighting against this newest iteration of dispossession, many Canadians are financing and profiting from Bombardier’s activities.
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Davis calls for this generation to fight for full substantive freedoms, so that future generations will not be left addressing the same issues.
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Pinkwashing Settler Colonialism
Settler colonial states like Israel and Canada use homonationalism to position gay-friendly narratives and legislation as the justification of occupation and oppression.
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“The more they oppress, the less safe they feel”
Bridging Palestine solidarity work with Indigenous struggles in Canada.
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University of Regina set to endorse Israeli occupation?
Hebrew University is a shocking choice for a collaboration in public safety management, say Palestinian students.
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“An irresistible force”
Before dawn one Sunday in June 2010, nearly 1,000 people converged on the Port of Oakland in northern California. Following a well-devised plan, they marched to the dockside gates of SSA Marine, one of the world’s largest shipping corporations, and awaited the arrival of the Israeli cargo ship Zim Shenzhen.