UBC Campus Security recently issued a series of obvious and dangerous lies in a PUBLIC STATEMENT on the student occupation of the bookstore. This sets a disturbing precedent for how free expression is treated on campus. From @peoplesuniversityubc on Instagram. 🧵

Through extensive research undertaken with UBC Graduate Students for Palestine, we found that UBC’s 2023 endowment investments in Israeli apartheid, settler-colonial occupation, and genocide of Palestinians totalled over $113.8 million across 88 firms 🧵
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Kaliane Bradley, author of 'The Ministry of Time':

'“People never ask refugees, ‘Are you grateful?’ They ask, ‘How grateful are you?’” Bradley says, quoting from the memoir Landbridge by Canadian-Cambodian writer Y-Dang Troeung, which she published at Penguin.'

UWaterloo English

Announcing a special e-zine, “Arts of Encampment: a living digital archive of the UBC Student Solidarity Encampment for Palestine.”

Submissions are open now. Please submit and help spread the word.

Free Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸

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So to be clear here:
A concentration camp.

The Association for Asian American Studies writes to strongly support and affirm students, communities, and campus protestors in their call for an end to complicity in Palestinian genocide. Full statement available here: aaastudies.org/advocacy-state…

Almost 2,500 UBC Alumni as well as former & current workers, staff & faculty stand with UBC student encampment for Gaza

Every university in Gaza has been destroyed, yet, UBC is choosing genocide. We offer our voices in support of divestment from genocide

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Don’t forget to follow the Scholar Strike Canada (SSC)virtual program in support of student encampments across the country today at noon on SSC youtube here.youtube.com/live/REHnVlD0C…

The The New York Times advises use of the word Palestine only in rare cases. Remove the word and remove sight. It's become clear that many do not see Palestinian lives as entirely real. They don't see their life, their death, their children. They don't even see that they don't see.

THIS IS WHY STUDENTS CAMP.
From Ramallah, Palestine

Madeleine Thien I wish Professor Troeung was here to witness these ever growing acts of global solidarity. Free Palestine. ❤️

This past week, Y-Dang Troeung’s Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia was recognized with an Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary Book Award at the Association for Asian American Studies 2024 Conference!

Solidarity grows day by day! The signs at the encampment speak volumes about the intersectional, transnational, anti-colonial anti-fascist nature of this global student movement

Excited to co-edit this special issue of Amerasia Journal with Heidi Amin-Hong (Heidi Amin-Hong) and Emily Hue on 'Between Refuge and Refuse: New Mediums/Methods for Theorizing Refuge(e) Environments.' Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract, due May 15!

UBC People's University for Gaza enters week 2.

As Israel is bombing Rafah, over 750 UBC Alumni and current/former UBC workers & faculty stand with students. We call on UBC to immediately divest from genocide & cut ties with Israeli institutions.

SIGN: forms.gle/ufMwPQEToBnPrG…

This is Canada. A white woman with the Jewish Defense League, an outside agitator to UofT Occupy for Palestine at the People’s Circle for Palestine, tells an Indigenous woman drumming and singing—on Red Dress Day—to “get out of our country.” Settler colonialism is a structure, not an event.

Emergency Teach-In 15: Saluting Administrators & All Faculty Protesting Genocide. Wow. Featuring Sinan Antoon, Cultural Landscape Specialist, Adel Iskandar, Media Landscape Specialist, Bassam Haddad, Social Science Specialist x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

—James Baldwin