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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 · 13/01/2025

Katherine Franke: "While the university may call this change in my status 'retirement,' it should be more accurately understood as a termination dressed up in more palatable terms."

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Activists back US professor ‘forced’ from Columbia over Palestine advocacy

Katherine Franke says she was forced to retire over her views critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

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

Curious (and beyond shameful) that @lapresse.ca would fail to mention that the store targeted with gunfire Sunday morning, Supermarché Mizan, is an openly Palestinian-owned business. Feels like a pretty giant detail to omit. #montreal #antipalestinianracism #doublestandards

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Montréal | La vitrine d’un commerce brisée par un impact de balle

Un commerce situé à une centaine de mètres de la station de métro Guy-Concordia a vraisemblablement été atteint par un coup de feu.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Anyone can fill in this form, whether you are a member of staff, a director, or a board member of a cultural org. Any information will help us in this process. Later this month we will announce a new list of orgs that have committed to PACBI, building on the 22 endorsements announced last fall.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment to fill out the nationwide #PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called “Canada" : tinyurl.com/PACBI-SURVEY

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Nationwide PACBI Survey - for cultural organizations in "Canada"

What is your organizations relationship to PACBI?

Already endorsed PACBI?
In the process of endorsing PACBI?
Would like more information about PACBI?
Needs help to restart endorsing PACBI?

Help strengthen the cultural front dedicated to Palestinian liberation. Please take a moment and fill out the nationwide PACBI survey, contributing to an updated list of PACBI endorsements across so-called "Canada"

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

"Past and present Board members of the Azrieli network represent ties to illegal weaponry research (via Weizmann Institute), Israeli military intelligence, and efforts to ‘rebrand’ the image of Israel, donating $25k annually to Honest Reporting Canada."

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

"The Azrieli Group has holdings in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Azrieli Group also continues to profit from the colonization of the occupied Palestinian territories through its shares in Bank Leumi."

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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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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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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥 via Artists Against Artwashing: Yesterday, artists in #Toronto delivered a letter with over 200 signatures calling on the Toronto Arts Foundation to cut ties with the zionist Azrieli Foundation. #palestine #PACBI

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

"I can no longer ethically or morally consent to use my labor in any way that supports an institution that is explicitly manufacturing consent for the unrestrained, illegal, “apocalyptic” ongoing series of “calculated” genocides to destroy the people of #Palestine."

mondoweiss.net

‘Do you value life, SJSU?’: longtime professor resigns over San Jose State University support for Gaza genocide

“I can no longer ethically or morally consent to use my labor in any way that supports an institution that is explicitly manufacturing consent for the unrestrained, illegal, ‘apocalyptic’ ongoing seri...

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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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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"The [PACBI] solidarity campaign, heeding the call from Palestinian civil society, takes aim at institutional complicity, not the identity or national origin of any individuals or groups of people."

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

🔥 from The Link: #ConcordiaUniversity "refuses to address the real issues at hand—its complicity in violence, its financial ties to colonialism and war profiteers, and its silence in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people." #montreal #bds

thelinknewspaper.ca

Gaslight, deny, repeat | Opinions

Students respond to the hypocrisy of Concordia University’s call “to denounce violence in all its forms” while the university still supports genocide in Palestine.

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Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's about time!

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥 #PACBI #BDS "Though this endorsement is an extraordinary measure, it is not the first time that PEN America has stood with besieged writers, as we have done for writers silenced by the South African apartheid regime and for Ukrainian writers under assault by Russia."

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PEN America endorses the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

PEN America today announced that it has joined the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and committed to complying with the guidelines for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cu...

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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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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Open to local and international academic communities + Concordia community incl. alumni. Please sign if you can and help us send #ConcordiaUniversity a message that the IOF does not belong on our university campuses! #montreal #palestine #copsoffcampus #idfoffcampus

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

3/3 - Here is our open letter to #ConcordiaUniversity, feel free to share the slides! #montreal #palestine #idfoffcampus #copsoffcampus

1 of 4 - Open Letter Slide that reads:

We, the undersigned Concordia faculty, students, staff, alumni; members of the Montreal community; as well as members of the broader Canadian and international academic community are deeply shocked and appalled by Concordia University's decision to hire the contractor Perceptage for the purpose of policing, surveillance, and targeting their students.

Since October 7, 2023, the university administration has called for a “safe and respectful” space for all, “where we can debate, discuss and explore different, even polarizing, ideas”. Yet we now know that the university hired a security contractor run by a former IDF soldier. Furthermore, employees of this firm who have been coordinating activities with Concordia security include former IDF soldiers or reservists and veterans of the Canadian military. The presence of this Israeli-linked security company on Concordia's campus further intensifies a climate of intimidation, repression and violence that those standing in solidarity with Palestine have been enduring.

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For over a year, thousands of Concordia University students have mobilized in support of Palestine and in opposition to what the International Court of Justice has described as a plausible genocide in Gaza. Students and their organizations have repeatedly demanded that the university disclose its investments and divest from Israeli apartheid. The university administration has consistently refused students' demands and claimed political neutrality. However, Concordia's decision to contract an Israel-linked security contractor, whose CEO supports Israel's ongoing occupation and war crimes, starkly exposes its one-sided position. In this context, the university's stated commitment to decolonization and to equity, diversity and inclusion rings hollow and hypocritical.

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The presence of this security company, above and beyond the already heightened policing on campus, is traumatizing for Palestinian and Lebanese members of Concordia's community, many of whom have lost family or have family presently facing displacement, siege and starvation. The militarization of Concordia's campus is also triggering for other BIPOC and 2+LGBTQ members, especially considering that Concordia's Campus Safety and Prevention Services coordinate regularly with Montreal's Police Services (SPVM) - a police force who were, as recently as September 2024, found to be engaged in systematic racial profiling by a Quebec Superior Court judge.

4 of 4 - Open Letter Slide that reads:

The decision by the Concordia administration to hire Perceptage undermines the community-building work which is so vital at this moment in the history of the university. Heightened security and militarized policing should not be the way the university interfaces with its students, staff and faculty.

We, the undersigned, request an immediate end to the contract with Perceptage, and call for full transparency into who was involved in hiring this company and what procedures were followed to procure its services.

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

2/3 - Al Jazeera reported on it earlier this morning. Please help us put pressure on #ConcordiaUniversity - let them know that hiring ex-IDF members to surveil / brutalize Palestinian & Lebanese students & faculty + allies on campus is beyond unacceptable! #palestine #montreal

Screenshot from an article on Al Jazeera that reads:

US, Canadian universities hire Israeli firms to curb pro-Palestinian protests: Report

A report published on Saturday by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth says that several universities in both the US and Canada have entered into agreements with Israel-linked security companies to suppress pro-Palestinian protests occurring on their campuses.

The report notes that after the election of Donald Trump, who pledged to penalise academic institutions that failed to control “radicals and Hamas supporters,” a number of universities in both countries turned to Israeli security firms to manage pro-Palestinian protests.

Screenshot from an article on Al Jazeera that reads:

The City University of New York (CUNY), a major hotspot for protests last year, has recently signed a $4m contract with Strategy Security Corp. This company, owned by Yosef Sordi, a former New York City police officer, has publicly disclosed his professional training in Israel.

Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, also enlisted two Israeli security firms: Perceptage International, led by Adam Cohen, the former head of security for the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem, and Moshav Security Consulting, operated by Eyal Feldman, a former Israeli army reserve commander and ex-advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defence.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Please sign! #ConcordiaUniversity has no business bringing ex-IOF members on our campuses! #montreal #palestine

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

Ellen Gabriel is a legend - go if you can:

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

Rehab Nazzal, #WestBank #Palestine: "Today, around 30 masked and armed Jewish settlers from the illegal colony of Yitzhar attacked a home in the Palestinian town of Huwara, near the city of Nablus."

Photograph of the damage done by illegal Israeli settlers to a Palestinian family home in Nablus after they set the home on fire. The image features a pile of badly burned adult and children sized shoes.

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

via CKUT-FM: Join us this Sunday for an evening of music, poetry and projections to raise funds for a project in #Beirut that supports #Palestinian youth living with disabilities in Burj El Barajneh refugee camp. Featuring 2 short films by RP members Razan AlSalah & Muhammad ElKhairy. #Montreal

Event poster featuring a black background, an abstract illustration of a white dove of peace, and text that reads:

Spectacle-benefice for Palestinian youth living with disabilities in Lebanon.

Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024
Doors 8pm, suggested donation $15-25
La Sotternea
4848 St. Laurent, Montreal

Poetry, Sonya Ben Yahmed
Dabke Al Ajaweed Collective
Films: Muhammad ElKhairy + Razan AlSalah (Regards Palestiniens)
Guitar + synth, Stefan Christoff
Artwork by Mouneer Al Shaarani

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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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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 04/12/2024

What does ethics have to do with space, and what does a Mars rover have to do with Palestine? @adeenedenton.com & I will explore this (and more!) during our lecture & discussion series with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social to benefit a family in Gaza. Sign up: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei... 🧪

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Reimaging Space — Workshops 4 Gaza

Step 1: Donate to the Abu Al-Kombuz family here (suggested donation $75USD). Step 2: Register for “Reimagining Space” here . This workshop is a two-part lecture and discussion series ...

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

Jasleen Kaur, 2024 Turner Prize winner, stood in solidarity with #Palestine & the Palestinian liberation movement last night during her acceptance speech: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream meets life we are shut down."

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Arms embargo now, free Palestine ! Jasleen Kaur, Turner Prize winner 2024 !

YouTube video by Frank Barat

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Pick up some Palestinian fantasy and sci-fi this Read Palestine Week! Available in most bookstores (it keeps selling out, so be persistent!). Try buying from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social at the link below. www.workshops4gaza.com/bookstore/th...

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Thyme Travellers — Workshops 4 Gaza

Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora's best voices in speculative fiction.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#WestBank -based Palestinian journalist / writer Mariam Barghouti on #journalism: "Reporting is not just relaying statements. It is about understanding the smell of a space, the tone of tears, the vibration of laughter. We learn again & again that working in the field means communicating with it."

A simple black and white self portrait of the author, Mariam Barghouti.

Text that reads: ✨I started my journalistic career mostly writing portraits. Portraits of people, then portraits of prisons, then portraits of displacement, then portraits of murder.

✨It’s part of our profession to enter homes as strangers & depart with some of the most intimate details of people’s lives.

✨Mothers broke down in my arms, fathers cried while proudly remembering the mischief of their slain boys, sisters showed me the last present they got from their killed brother. The rhythm repeats.

✨Reporting is not just relaying statements. It is about understanding the smell of a space, the tone of tears, the vibration of laughter. We learn again & again that working in the field means communicating with it.

✨So as journalists we learn to gather the stories in the details of an eye twitch, the stillness of a kid that just escaped an airstrike, & the detainee explaining torture on a map of scars on his body.

✨We enter homes as strangers, & leave with so many precious pieces afforded to us— but all of this is only if we dare to be silent. Silence is the moments where we loosen our loyalties to the questions & find actual answers.

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✨So we sit there, in a strange silence. Exchanging glances; speaking without words. Those little moments are the most telling. A moment where the conversations change gears & the story tells itself.

✨In these moments, it becomes piercingly clear that we are not reporting on events. We’re actually reporting about all the lives that have led us to that event.

✨The story of a Palestinian killed is not only a story about a body turned lifeless. It’s about everyone else that came into contact with that life. It’s about their family, their friends, their beloveds. It is also about the life that killed them, about all the lives that facilitated it.

✨The story is about everything that moved between birth & death. The moments of building a home, to the moment it was destroyed, to the moment a child wipes the tears of their grieving mother who is now asking “where the children will sleep?”

But the children are already dreaming of their retribution.

✨I learned that every story is a story of the whole world unfolding.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Rehab Nazzal #Jenin: "Living under siege, military occupation, and apartheid, Palestinians resisting their colonizers are faced with brutal military / surveillance power. There is nowhere to hide / nowhere to escape. They face killer drones, armored vehicles, and soldiers with orders shoot to kill."

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Edward Said & the Question of Palestine On the republication of Said's classic, thinkers – including Jehad Abusalim, Budour Hassan & Saree Makdisi – address the question today and the painful contradictions of narrative power in a time of genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWi...

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Edward Said & The Question of Palestine | Southbank Centre, November 20 2024

YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

via Decolonial Film Festival: un extrait du film Beyrouth, ma ville (1982) de Jocelyne Saab. En tandem avec le dramaturge libanais Roger Assaf, elle décide de parcourir sa ville assiégée par les Israéliens et de rendre compte de la situation à Beyrouth. #arabcinema #lebanon #palestine

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Tiberius @ecomarxi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It’s insane this still needs said

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

We could not be more proud of fellow RP member Razan AlSalah for winning #RIDM's award for Best National Short or Medium-Length Film for 'A Stone's Throw'. So incredibly well deserved! We'll keep you updated on opportunities to screen it, but in the meantime, here's a short review of the film:

inreviewonline.com

A Stone's Throw — Razan AlSalah [FID Marseille '24 Review] | In Review Online

A new film review of A Stone's Throw, directed by Razan AlSalah, for film review site In Review Online's FIDMarseille 2024 coverage.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

via Rehab Nazzal: "Every time I go to Jenin, I visit the new cemetery established after the atrocity the IOF committed in the camp before Oct '23. Each time, I find new graves of martyrs, including those of siblings and friends who were martyred together, as well as new photographs." #palestine

This photo captures two youths visiting the graves of their brothers, along with posted photographs of martyrs behind them.

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Online zoom talk this Monday re: "the new wave of repression against #Palestine solidarity movement in the context of the broader history of repression against the worker’s movement, Indigenous liberation struggles, and revolutionary movements."

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Regards Palestiniens @regardspal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

"Despite the festival’s long history of creating a space for essential political discourse, #Berlinale made clear that it is content to be complicit in the German government's ongoing strategy of aggressively censoring any criticism of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians." #palestine

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*Film Workers for Palestine*

The events of the last edition of Berlinale in February 2024 have caused widespread alarm among film workers worldwide.

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