Girish Daswani
@girishdaswani.bsky.social
What happens when the university you work for allows genociders to work alongside you and to teach students? Is the university also complicit when they allowed this Engineering professor to make several trips, to murder innocent women, children, men in Palestine, and to return to teach in Toronto?
🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
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Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
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UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide and Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Dr Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What happens when the university you work for allows genociders to work alongside you and to teach students? Is the university also complicit when they allowed this Engineering professor to make several trips, to murder innocent women, children, men in Palestine, and to return to teach in Toronto?
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What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
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This week! Make sure to register online!
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
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co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This week! Make sure to register online!
Our panel "From Accra with Laughter" is now available. Ghanaian artist Bright Ackwerh speaks about his decade long sociopolitical commentary on Ghana and the African continent. This conversation was sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute's Program for the Arts.
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From Accra with Laughter: An art talk with Bright Ackwerh
YouTube video by Human Stories
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October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our panel "From Accra with Laughter" is now available. Ghanaian artist Bright Ackwerh speaks about his decade long sociopolitical commentary on Ghana and the African continent. This conversation was sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute's Program for the Arts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbQ...
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Open letter opposing US military incursions & reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. In the words of the late Barbadian PM Errol Barrow, “we are satellites of none,’ and in the words of the late Grenadian PM Maurice Bishop, “we are in nobody’s backyard” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
OPEN LETTER OPPOSING US MILITARY INCURSIONS AND REAFFIRMING THE CARIBBEAN AS A ZONE OF PEACE
We, Caribbean advocates for equality, security and development within and between States, note with grave concern the recent incursions by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea. This signifies egreg...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Open letter opposing US military incursions & reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. In the words of the late Barbadian PM Errol Barrow, “we are satellites of none,’ and in the words of the late Grenadian PM Maurice Bishop, “we are in nobody’s backyard” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I wish nothing but misery on the agents who talked to him. Nothing. But. Neverending. MISERY.
October 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I wish nothing but misery on the agents who talked to him. Nothing. But. Neverending. MISERY.
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This is pretty jaw-dropping stuff.
🐦🔎 The findidfsoldiers.net database lists five doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One went to serve after Oct. 7, 2023:
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October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is pretty jaw-dropping stuff.
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2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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1/ I’m testifying on university complicity in genocide on Saturday, October 25th at the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul:
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Home - Gaza Tribunal
How Tribunal Operates Chambers Steering Committee Administrative & Supportive Units More Updates Finance Calendar
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October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
1/ I’m testifying on university complicity in genocide on Saturday, October 25th at the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul:
gazatribunal.com
gazatribunal.com
What does it mean for IOF soldiers to teach Medicine in Canadian universities? How aligned is one’s service in an occupation/genocidal army with the Hippocratic oath and with Canadian universities and hospitals commitment to safety, equity and equality? See Sparrows4P 👇
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Canadian Doctors & Medical Educators in the IOF
One went to serve after October 7, 2023
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October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What does it mean for IOF soldiers to teach Medicine in Canadian universities? How aligned is one’s service in an occupation/genocidal army with the Hippocratic oath and with Canadian universities and hospitals commitment to safety, equity and equality? See Sparrows4P 👇
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🐦🔎 Complicit Israeli universities in their own words:
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🐦🔎 Complicit Israeli universities in their own words:
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
On Oct. 30, 2023, HUJI put out a video on their youtube page entitled "Research During War". In this video, we notably get a sense of how not only Israeli, but also international students play a role in the country's genocidal machinery.
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🐦🔎 Quick answer: Deep. Very deep:
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October 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🐦🔎 Quick answer: Deep. Very deep:
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The University of Toronto has made a consistent point of surveilling and disciplining faculty members critical of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.
When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.
How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become?
Quick answer: Very, very much.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The University of Toronto has made a consistent point of surveilling and disciplining faculty members critical of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.
When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.
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This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Sharing an important resource on APR, Islamophobia, and Israeli partnerships on Canadian University campuses -by the Expert Task Force report on genocide complicity and repression of Palestine solidarity at universities across Canada. The report is available at www.institutionalcomplicity.ca.
Palestine at Canadian Universities
www.institutionalcomplicity.ca
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sharing an important resource on APR, Islamophobia, and Israeli partnerships on Canadian University campuses -by the Expert Task Force report on genocide complicity and repression of Palestine solidarity at universities across Canada. The report is available at www.institutionalcomplicity.ca.
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How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become?
Quick answer: Very, very much.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...
Rather than limiting or cutting ties with Israeli institutions (which play an important role in providing logistics, manpower, and research to support the genocide) UofT has intensified connections to and collaborations with Israel. See "Sparrows for Palestine" substack.com/home/post/p-... [1/3]
How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become?
Quick answer: Very, very much.
substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Rather than limiting or cutting ties with Israeli institutions (which play an important role in providing logistics, manpower, and research to support the genocide) UofT has intensified connections to and collaborations with Israel. See "Sparrows for Palestine" substack.com/home/post/p-... [1/3]
In his book "Intellectuals in Developing Societies" Syed Alatas writes about "bebalisma." Derived from the Malay language-"bebal" in Malay means stupid, indolent, stubborn-the concept is meant to convey an attitude of wilful ignorance that coexists with different and diverse ideologies 1/
October 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
In his book "Intellectuals in Developing Societies" Syed Alatas writes about "bebalisma." Derived from the Malay language-"bebal" in Malay means stupid, indolent, stubborn-the concept is meant to convey an attitude of wilful ignorance that coexists with different and diverse ideologies 1/
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📖😍🐍 I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my edited volume "The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period" is now available in paperback AND at a 20% discount on CUP's website! 🎊
September 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📖😍🐍 I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my edited volume "The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period" is now available in paperback AND at a 20% discount on CUP's website! 🎊
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🌆🌊🏦💥❤️🩹 The official poster for "Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving & Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine" workshop is out!
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at AUC Tahrir + on zoom
rsvp: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at AUC Tahrir + on zoom
rsvp: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...
September 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🌆🌊🏦💥❤️🩹 The official poster for "Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving & Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine" workshop is out!
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at AUC Tahrir + on zoom
rsvp: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at AUC Tahrir + on zoom
rsvp: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...
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The Arab countries neighbouring or close to Palestine and Sudan have been one of the biggest disappointments in the starvation and genocidal violence we are witnessing. May all their regimes fall and may their people gain both courage and liberation for all.
July 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Arab countries neighbouring or close to Palestine and Sudan have been one of the biggest disappointments in the starvation and genocidal violence we are witnessing. May all their regimes fall and may their people gain both courage and liberation for all.
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I witnessed a Sudanese woman being policed by a non-Sudanese academic for using the phrase "world's largest humanitarian crisis" to describe the situation in Sudan, critiquing the term crisis and it was such a misplaced critique. Reserve that kind of language policing (1/2)
August 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I witnessed a Sudanese woman being policed by a non-Sudanese academic for using the phrase "world's largest humanitarian crisis" to describe the situation in Sudan, critiquing the term crisis and it was such a misplaced critique. Reserve that kind of language policing (1/2)
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Using anti-imperialist, Decolonial language does not make someone’s analysis anti-imperialist and anti-colonial. Reactionary propaganda can dangerously be cloaked in such language and I’m not talking about the US context here.
August 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Using anti-imperialist, Decolonial language does not make someone’s analysis anti-imperialist and anti-colonial. Reactionary propaganda can dangerously be cloaked in such language and I’m not talking about the US context here.
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I recommend reading this report by Dr. Suliman Baldo @SulimanBaldo and Ahmed Soliman on gold and the war in Sudan. It demonstrates that most of the gold extracted from Sudan is ending up in the UAE, including gold mined in SAF controlled areas.
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
August 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I recommend reading this report by Dr. Suliman Baldo @SulimanBaldo and Ahmed Soliman on gold and the war in Sudan. It demonstrates that most of the gold extracted from Sudan is ending up in the UAE, including gold mined in SAF controlled areas.
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
This article argues why Canadian universities should be included in Albanese’s report. UofTs Anthropology department implicated due to connections to “Archaeology of Israel Trust”, which is "set up to make a “significant contribution to the archaeology of Israel""
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Canadian universities too should be in Francesca Albanese’s report
Canadian university administrators should remember that they too can be held accountable for genocide complicity.
www.aljazeera.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This article argues why Canadian universities should be included in Albanese’s report. UofTs Anthropology department implicated due to connections to “Archaeology of Israel Trust”, which is "set up to make a “significant contribution to the archaeology of Israel""
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...