The jokes write themselves. I only wish I could’ve been in the courtroom yesterday to join in the laughter that ensued in response to this ridiculous argument University of Toronto ‘s lawyer made

Living faculty life University of Toronto lawyers way. Breakfast at PCP. UofT Occupy for Palestine

Thx to Laxmi Prasad Ojha & Jennifer Burton for the invite to offer these comments on your special issue on teacher ed & multilingualism. Grateful to Dr. Joanne Weber & In Mourning/In Rage for helping me be more precise in my arguments. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#FACTS: "We have yet to see a ..high-profile event in solidarity with Palestine...organized by German academics...Jewish left orgs. have offered leadership; local & natl Palestinian groups have organized weekly demos...but the German liberal leftist public remains undisturbed."

Many friends here in Toronto are baffled as to why I don’t vote absentee in the US for candidates like Joe Biden. I invite them to read this excellent piece by Jeanne Theoharis for just one explanation

Not sure what’s worse here - the both-sidism or the fantasy that Fire Island is actually representative of ‘the L.G.B.T. Community’ nytimes.com/2024/06/22/nyr…

The Green think tank wrote an article about Germany’s Palestinian community and their experiences as refugees. They apparently deleted it after criticism from the usual suspects

University of Toronto students! Do you like #TurkishTVseries? Are you interested in #TurkishCinema? Do you have some fluency in #TurkishLanguage? Come join us for this new course to improve your Turkish through the "dizi", cinema, and media! NML372H1F Coming up this fall NMC at UofT! U of T Arts & Science

looking back, this should have been a red flag ...

Institutions are immovable, until they are not. Divestment is impossible, until it is not. University of Toronto will divest. It is not a question of if, but when 🇵🇸❤️

Marina Hyde nailing it, as usual.

Revisit the inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize-winning essay, “a map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies”, wherein Hashem Abushama uses conjunctural analysis to consider a multiplicity of existent Palestinian geographies. Read here: stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/a-map…

‘While no one would want to deny the existence of racism in Western societies, bringing race into the academic discussion about translanguaging unnecessarily polarises the discussion’ - linguistics FTW

excellent analysis by David J. Doorey🇨🇦 💙. The stakes are high at York. Solidarity with YUFA! lawofwork.ca/without-a-succ…

Pointed op-ed in The Hill Times by University of Windsor profs Naved Bakali and IJV member Jillian Rogin: "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau : when your special adviser [Anthony Housefather] weaponizes antisemitism to undermine academic freedom, the price will be steep. It’s time to rein him in."

The hits just keep on coming in Germany

"The York University Faculty Association (YUFA), representing over 1,700 full-time faculty, librarians and archivists, and postdoctoral visitors, has received a strong strike mandate from its members. In an unprecedented turnout of members (83.8%), 92.3% voted Yes". #UnionStrong

Amazing work by YUFA organizing its members to stand up to the employer’s bullying!

Deutsche Umfragen, 2024, koloriert

So excited to welcome Prof Donna Murch (Donna Murch) to deliver UTFA ‘s C.B. Macpherson Lecture on Sept 19 in William Doo Auditorium at 7pm. More details to come shortly but for now save the date and pls share widely! OCUFA YUFA