Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:

The day after @ICJ concluded that Israel is plausibly committing Genocide in Gaza, some states decided to defund UNRWA, collectively punishing millions of Palestinians at the most critical time, and most likely violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention.

Lauren Thompson of the University of Alberta will be joining us for this month's WKE webinar series! Drop in on February 15th at noon for "Methylmercury production and export in permafrost peatland catchments of the Taiga Plains" Register here 👉 loom.ly/PKE4Pw8

This is the most draconian legislation ever introduced in Canada. It is a full on attack against trans and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. It is not only immoral, it is illegal. There is no evidence or research to support any of these recommendations. This is ideological warfare. #abpoli

The scale of the war crime committed against Hind Rajab, her family, and the rescuers cleared by the IDF to reach her, is beyond comprehension amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

students at the University of Alberta are setting up their encampment!

Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. "The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies," he says.

If there’s any meaningful work for the professoriate in this moment on earth, it is this.

He wrote If I Must Die to Al-Shymaa. He was addressing her. She's the one that was told to tell his story, to sell his things, and to not lose hope.

Emory professor Nicole McAfee, chair of the university's philosophy department, was among those arrested amid the Atlanta school's crackdown on student protesters. Democracy Now! spoke to Professor McAfee about the protests, which she says were "peaceful" until police arrived.

This is what the violence we're seeing on campuses is designed to defend.

BDS VICTORY: Yesterday, USaskFaculty voted to support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel! This is the 6th #BDS motion passed by a Canadian faculty association in just the last couple of months. cjpme.org/who_supports_b… BDS movement Faculty 4 Palestine

This is what happening right now. This is going to have lasting impacts on University of Alberta as people around the world watch the brutality you inflicted on your students by sending riot cops on them.

We condemn the violent assault by University of Alberta and Edmonton Police on peaceful protestors at the student encampment. Instead of listening to the principled calls to divest, UAlberta is attacking its students to protect its investments in genocide. A total disgrace.

This was Edmonton Police’s response. Here’s our community’s: DON’T TOUCH OUR STUDENTS Bill Flanagan University of Alberta #StudentJusticeForPalestine #Studentifada #FreePalesitne #DiscloseDivest

U of A poli sci professor David Kahane, someone who was caught up in the violent police sweep of the non-violent protest, demands that the Board of Governors not reappoint Bill Flanagan president and has new details that contradict Flanagan and EPS' version of events.

At least 70 dead people and over 300 wounded, the majority of whom are women and children, have been brought to Al-Aqsa hospital since yesterday following heavy Israeli strikes in the Middle Area of the #Gaza strip.

“All the rivers we used to travel by”: Indigenous knowledge of hydrological change and its impacts in the Mackenzie Delta Region, Canada link.springer.com/article/10.100… #PermafrostPaperADay

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance… thelancet.com/journals/lance…