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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The entire Advisory Council of #ConcordiaUniversity ’s Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery have resigned in protest of administration’s unjust dismissal of Director Pip Day, citing donor intimidation and censorship over Palestine. #NoBusinessAsUsual #Montreal #censorship #antipalestinianracism

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Entire Advisory Council of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery resign in protest at the dismissal of Director Pip Day, citing donor intimidation and censorship over Palestine.

Black and white photo of an armed Montreal police officer standing guard inside the entrance of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery - from October 31st, when Concordia University ejected the entire Gallery team from their workplace, in order to use the Gallery to detain students protesting increased police presence on campus.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This whole thread: Concordia University "neutrality" = censorship, firing and repression. #montreal

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

On Jan. 9, Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal joined us for a powerful artist talk & protest against #ConcordiaUniversity administration's unjust dismissal of curator Pip Day, the now-former Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery due to her pro-Palestine programming. #Montreal

Featuring artist Rehab Nazzal holding up a protest sign, leading a group of students, academics and artists through the halls of Concordia's EV building to the Bina Ellen Gallery, following her artist talk.

A group of protestors lined up in front of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery in protest of Concordia's censorship of Palestine.

A photo of Rehab Nazzal speaking in front of a group of students, academics and artists about Concordia University's complicity in the genocide and Pip Day's unjust dismissal as Director of the Bina Ellen Art Gallery.

The SPVM officers that were called on protestors by campus security after trying to bar our entry to the Library Building atrium. 10 cop cars were stationed outside.

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Absolutely horrific, please amplify: Palestinian student assaulted in the Hall building - Christopher Bahnan condemns Concordia’s refusal to send out a warning to students following his assault in December. #Montreal #ConcordiaUniversity #antipalestinianracism theconcordian.com/2025/01/pale...

Screenshot of an article from the Concordian newspaper featuring an image of a keffiyeh and a headline that reads:

Palestinian student assaulted in the Hall building

Christopher Bahnan condemns Concordia’s refusal to send out a warning to students following his assault in December.

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"Perceptage agents have been accused of physically assaulting students while stationed at pro-Palestine demonstrations. According to a video posted on Nov. 22, officers were seen aggressively pushing students away from picketing actions and into the stairway of the Henry F. Hall building" #montreal

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Concordia hires external security firm founded by ex-Israeli soldier | News

Concordia University spent $33,683 on services by an external security firm founded by an ex-Israeli soldier.

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Note that #ConcordiaUniversity also shamefully has an official longstanding relationship with the Azrieli Foundation via their Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies.

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Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies - Concordia University

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 06/01/2025

Trudeau resigns, leaving a rotten political legacy that concluded with helping to fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza. www.readthemaple.com/fuelling-gen...

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Fuelling Genocide: Trudeau’s Bloody Record On Gaza

An assessment of the Trudeau government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"A two-part initiative designed to help Sites of Conscience and their allies build a better understanding of what has led to the situation in #Palestine today, encourage critical thinking, and inspire action towards building more peaceful societies everywhere."

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Why Memory Matters in Palestine and Beyond - Sites of Conscience

An image from the 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba. Photo credit: CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Why Memory Matters in...

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

👏👏👏 : NEW YORK CITY—American Historical Association members attending the group’s annual conference voted 428 to 88 Sunday to approve a resolution opposing “scholasticide” in #Gaza and the U.S. government’s funding of Israel’s war.

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AHA convention attendees oppose "scholasticide" in Gaza

The measure now goes to the group’s elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organization’s 10,000-plus full membership.

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Please join us this coming Thursday Jan. 9th @ 6pm for an artist talk w Palestinian-Canadian artist / filmmaker Rehab Nazzal. Rehab's work documents Israel’s settler colonial practices in Palestine + the resilience & resistance tactics of residents, primarily those in refugee camps. #montreal

Promo event poster for an artist talk featuring Palestinian artist and filmmaker Rehab Nazzal at Concordia University (downtown campus) this coming Thursday January 9th at 6pm. Location: EV 1.605.

White background with a thin red border + a red, green and black traced image of a deaf girl named Amal from northern Gaza who was featured in Nazzal's brilliant documentary film 'Vibrations From Gaza'. She is holding her arms out in a 'power' pose.

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💫 Brock 💫 @queeralchemy.com · 20/12/2024

Rachel Bendayan is a Zionist and should not be in any position related to public safety.

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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Human Rights Watch insists on using terms like ‘crimes of apartheid’ and ‘acts of genocide’ instead of straightforwardly saying, ‘Israel is an apartheid state that is committing genocide.’

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

️‍🔥 "The Hive Café Solidarity Co-operative stands in solidarity with the movement for the liberation of #Palestine, and to all #ConcordiaUniversity students and community members who demonstrate against the complicity of our institutions at all levels in supporting an ongoing genocide."

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Open Letter: We now declare The Hive a police-free zone | Letters

We, the directors of The Hive Café, are writing to express our condemnation of the events of Dec. 3.

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

More of this please: "Over 7,000 writers, editors, translators, illustrators, publishers, agents, librarians, and other book industry workers have now joined the boycott of Israeli literary institutions complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people." #pacbi #palestine #bds

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7,000+ AUTHORS AND BOOK WORKERS JOIN HISTORIC BOYCOTT AGAINST COMPLICIT ISRAELI PUBLISHERS — The Palestine Festival of Literature

Thousands Join Pledge for Palestinian Rights since October

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Signed this recently as a Concordia alum. Put pressure on.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

via @boycottindigobooks (insta): #BoycottIndigoBooks is a grassroots campaign calling for the boycott of Indigo / Chapters due to its CEO’s ongoing involvement in the oppression of Palestinians and her complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. #bds #montreal

An image composite featuring a background photo of an Indigo Kids store display, with an overlay of 4 square slides that read (from left to right):

1. Your purchase makes Indigo CEO richer

2. Indigo CEO is a Director of HESEG Foundation

3. HESEG recruits mercenaries to the Israeli military

4. Israeli military commits genocide against innocent children

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

1,100+ signatures & counting: If you're an academic; a member of the #Montreal community; or a member of the #ConcordiaUniversity community, please consider signing this open letter. We'll be submitting it to admin within the next few hours.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This photo is of remnants of a drone missile that melted a car in Tubas, north #WestBank, the passengers were sitting beside it, two were killed, and the third was severely injured and kidnapped from a hospital."

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

via Rehab Nazzal: Israel has been testing weapons in Gaza since '08. After each of the 5 onslaughts on the Strip between '08 - '23, [they] marketed weapons to international regimes as 'tested & proved'. Over the past 14months, new weapons have been used, the latest of which melts flesh and bones.

This photo is close up image of a child's hand holding the remnants of a drone missile that melted a car in Tubas, north West Bank, the passengers were sitting beside it, two were killed, and the third was severely injured and kidnapped from a hospital.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/12/2024

Wanted war criminal not wanted at D.C. synagogue

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

"In a ceremony held at the Vatican, Pope Francis presented the annual nativity scene, which features baby Jesus dawned in a Palestinian keffiyeh." www.newarab.com/news/pope-un...

Image of the Pope approaching a nativity scene that features a wood carved baby Jesus who is lying on top of a Palestinian keffiyeh.

A nativity scene that features a wood carved baby Jesus lying on top of a Palestinian keffiyeh.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/12/2024

Free Palestine.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I've updated the Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading list! If you know of any other fantasy and science fiction works by Palestinian writers around the world, do let me know! soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

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Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List

The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#ConcordiaUniversity, are you not ashamed? Sign our open letter demanding that Concordia immediately end their contract with Perceptage, a security contractor run by a former IDF soldier: tinyurl.com/Sign-On-Lett... #montreal #palestine #endthegenocide #idfoffcampus

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

via SPHRConcordia: #ConcordiaUniversity admin has hired Israeli-owned security companies to brutalize / surveil pro-Pali students & faculty on campus. Both companies are founded & managed by ex-IDF officers / soldiers. #montreal Sign our open letter to Concordia here: tinyurl.com/Sign-On-Lett...

Slide 1 of 4 - Slide description: the background image features a red and black photograph of Israeli-owned private security personel brutalizing pro-Palestinian Concordia University students on campus. Text reads: CONCORDIA HIRES IDF MERCENARIES TO ATTACK PRO-PALESTINE STUDENTS - EXPOSED

The image also features the logos for Perceptage and Moshav Security Consultants.

2 of 4 - Slide Description: Slide description: image features a black and grey background with 2 logos with text that reads:

Perceptage International, contracted by Concordia University, is an Israeli-owned private security company. Most of it's agents have a military background and it was founded by ex-IDF soldier Adam Cohen.

Moshav Security Consultants - Moshav Canada is the 24/7 surveillance division of Perceptage International. It is managed by Eyal Feldman, a major in the Israeli Military Reserves.

Who runs this operation?

4 of 4 - Slide description: image features a photo of Matan Moyal with text that reads: Matan Moyal, co-founder of Moshav, monitoring security central division of Perceptage International.

- Served 20 years in the IDF.
- Commanded a special opperations unit (901) in the Israel Air Force.
- Worked for the office of the Prime Minister of Israel for 2 years (2004-2006).

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Claude Rioux @clauderioux.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

J'ai signé cette lettre qui demande à l'u Concordia de rompre avec l'agence de “securité” qui fait patrouiller le campus par des soldats et des réservistes de l'armée israélienne et canadienne.

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Ted Rutland @tedrutland.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Obvs sign this. Concordia hired a private security firm founded, managed, and staffed by ex-IOF soldiers.

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Anna Kruzynski [she•elle] @anna-kruzynski.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My employer on the wrong side of history. Please sign our open letter #freepalestine #endgenocidenow #divestnow

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Anna Kruzynski [she•elle] @anna-kruzynski.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Please sign if you can! #freepalestine

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

via Racines de la résistance: Dec 11 @ #LaSalaRossa. Tiotià:ke / #Montreal PREMIERE OF 3 SHORT FILMS on #Lebanon 's biodiversity, created through a residency that paired environmentalists w filmmakers. These works reflect our relationship with the land, the environment, our history, and future.

Event poster: the background is an illustration of two figures walking through Lebanon's lush landscapes, with tiny sheep grazing the fields. There is a subtle grid overlay.

The text reads:

SHORT FILMS SCREENING & DISCUSSION

ROOTS OF RESISTANCE: Biodiversity, food sovereignty, and resistance in times of war.

11 Dec | 7pm
La Sala Rossa

All profits will go to Lebanon's relief funds.

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