A beautiful spring morning at the University of Toronto.

The pro-Israel counter protestors at UCLA were organized by a group funded by billionaire Bill Ackman and friends, including Jessica Seinfeld (wife of the erstwhile comedian Jerry Seinfeld).
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Successful day 1 for UofT students, and incredible solidarity from our community.

Mahmoud Darwish

📣 URGENT: Emergency action at 7 pm tonight at 1 Kings College Circle, Toronto.

UofT admin is threatening to kick students out by 10 PM tonight. We need to show up in large numbers to send a clear message: Complicity in apartheid and occupation cannot be swept under the rug.

57 years ago, May 2 1967, 26 armed members of the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self-Defense entered the California State Assembly Hall to protest the Mulford Act, a piece of legislation intended to disarm them. News coverage of the action made them internationally famous

what a decade

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

The final post of Dr. Adnan Bursh, head of the orthopedic department at Al-Shifa Hospital, who was tortured to death in IOF prisons.

'We will die standing, & we will not kneel....
& as I said... all that remains in the valley are its stones... & we are its stones'

the united states showing the world it will eagerly erode its own democracy to defend its genocidal colonial outpost in the middle east, regardless of whether democrats or republicans are in power

Understand that these people’s evil is not limited to these protests. They are managers, teachers, cops, real-estate agents, and so forth. Their bigotry is not suddenly “shut off” in their work roles. No, they shape our society and the future of whomever they have authority over.

Free The Land, Free Palestine

Nothing’s changed since Edward Said wrote these words in 1982—Palestinians were to be treated as terrorists & two-legged beasts, & neither as human beings nor as potential citizens. This made it easier to bomb them & to pretend that Israel was doing the work on behalf of humanity

“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.”

Refaat wrote this in 2014.
I took this photo in March 2022.

And I would add, “Many loved our homeland even more because of Refaat.”