This is why the academic boycott is necessary. Tel Aviv University is the largest and highest ranked university in Israel. It partners with 280 academic institutions in 46 countries TAU has produced more venture capital backed company founders than any university outside the US

Iskra Books' 'advent calendar': each weekday get a FREE pdf of our of our 2024 publications. 📘Day 3 - Internationalism in Practice: Claudia Jones, Black Liberation, and the "Bestial" War on Korea.📘 A groundbreaking collection of Jones’ writings from the early 1950s, and

Maysam Abu Khreibeh, a Palestinian writer and organizer whose criminal charges were dropped this week, speaks publicly about her arrest for the first time. She calls on Giller Foundation to end its partnerships with Scotiabank, Indigo and other companies “complicit in genocide”

Check out this conversation with Ellen Gabriel and SamirS_H happening tomorrow at the Quebec Book Fair:

Union representing 72K faculty & academic staff in Canada upholds right to criticize Israel’s crimes against Palestinians and to call for “boycott and/or divestment and/or sanctions of the State of Israel." 18 Canadian faculty associations have passed boycott/divestment motions.

This is so funny to me. Like, "We'd like to dispel the circulating rumors that we've grown a conscience. We reassure our members that we remain as cowardly as ever." No PACBI for PEN.

Outstanding statement from the Manitoba Library Association on the importance of continual funding of the Community Connections space at the Millenium Library. mla.mb.ca/2024/12/09/sta…

7,000 authors and book workers have now joined the boycott of complicit Israeli literary institutions Upon its release on October 28th, 2024, the public letter announcing the campaign already constituted the largest boycott against Israeli cultural institutions in history.

Every day, another extraordinary text comes to our inbox. This is from a short essay by Gazan poet & playwright Yousef el Qedra.

The always excellent Rev Left Radio's latest episode interview is with Torkil Lauesen on the topic of his recent book 'The Long Transition...' revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/the-long-trans… Free PDF and print copies available: iskrabooks.org/the-long-trans…

“rob mclennan is one of the best prose and monostich poets writing today”Dr. Han VanderHart is on Bluesky on World’s End by rob mclennan poetrynotesfromhan.beehiiv.com/p/ten-remarkab…

Han VanderHart lists my World's End, (ARP Books) in their "Ten Remarkable Small Press Titles I Read This Year" list! / ARP Books now at @arpbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/12/han-va…

legacy media refuses to write about the ways the culture sector is materially invested in Palestinian death, and has instead churned a year + of these asinine articles about "discord" and "division" in arts communities theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-h…

"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." J. Baldwin

"If police-reported crime rates go down, they are leveraged as proof that policing works and that police deserve more money, while if these rates go up, they become evidence of insufficient funding and resources." Good stuff from James Wilt thewalrus.ca/the-winnipeg-p…

Help save Community Connections at Millennium Library. Its 100 daily “patrons include newcomers from other countries & Indigenous communities, those without access to basic technologies [..] those more vulnerable, lower income, or at risk of homelessness.” instagram.com/p/DEk7_oqzdRI/…