Gulzar R. Charania
@grcharania.bsky.social
Writer | Teacher | Associate Professor | Fighting Feelings @UBCPress https://www.ubcpress.ca/fighting-feelings | dog lover
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“Razing Palestine” (Ed. Leila Marshy) comes out this week. Proud to stand in solidarity with every contributor & others who experienced personal & professional consequences for speaking out against Israel’s genocide. These stories represent just the tip of the iceberg of repression in Canada.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“Razing Palestine” (Ed. Leila Marshy) comes out this week. Proud to stand in solidarity with every contributor & others who experienced personal & professional consequences for speaking out against Israel’s genocide. These stories represent just the tip of the iceberg of repression in Canada.
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I just wrote a letter: @ndp.ca MPs must OPPOSE the Budget for War, with Austerity for the Rest... Write & send your own letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/budg...
Budget for War. Austerity for the Rest.
To placate Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney is driving an unprecedented expansion in military spending while cutting public services. This week’s budgets expected to solidify the government’s ...
actionnetwork.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I just wrote a letter: @ndp.ca MPs must OPPOSE the Budget for War, with Austerity for the Rest... Write & send your own letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/budg...
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You’ll want to listen.
November 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
You’ll want to listen.
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
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Free screening of the documentary "The Encampments" at uOttawa on Nov 5, 7pm! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-encamp...
The Encampments | Free Screening - Les campements | Projection gratuite
An urgent look at America’s student movement, sparked at Columbia University, as students protested ties to the genocide in Gaza.
www.eventbrite.ca
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Free screening of the documentary "The Encampments" at uOttawa on Nov 5, 7pm! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-encamp...
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Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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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Canadian governments have poured $63M in subsidies into mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory, helping Kinross Gold push a project that threatens the Wabigoon River. Tax breaks for investors are undermining Indigenous rights and local waters while the province collects little in return.
Millions in subsidies for mineral exploration undermine Indigenous rights
Millions in government subsidies are fuelling risky mining projects on Grassy Narrows’ ancestral lands, enriching investors while threatening the First Nation’s water and health. Despite Indigenous op...
canadiandimension.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Canadian governments have poured $63M in subsidies into mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory, helping Kinross Gold push a project that threatens the Wabigoon River. Tax breaks for investors are undermining Indigenous rights and local waters while the province collects little in return.
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Teaching still matters. Maybe even more now than usual.
October 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Teaching still matters. Maybe even more now than usual.
"My brother looks exhausted and gaunt. I try to make him laugh. Despite the horrible conditions, it is still easy to make him laugh. If he, like my other siblings, disappears, then our last memory will be laughter."
In this searing piece, Yousef Aljamal bears witness to life under genocide in Gaza—where aid sites become “kill zones” & every call to family could be the last.
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
Gaza’s Nightmare
Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.
inthesetimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"My brother looks exhausted and gaunt. I try to make him laugh. Despite the horrible conditions, it is still easy to make him laugh. If he, like my other siblings, disappears, then our last memory will be laughter."
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"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
cfe.torontomu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
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I just sent a campaign update for Fadi, my friend in Gaza. Thanks to your donations, he was able to get a new tent for his family after their old one was destroyed and they were displaced. If you are able to donate, that would be wonderful!
chuffed.org/project/1322...
chuffed.org/project/1322...
Safety and Medical Treatment for Fadi and Afnan
My name is Emily, and I'm a professor in Canada. I'm running this campaign for Fadi, shown here with his nephew, and his wife Afnan. Originally from Gaza City, Fadi and Afnan are displaced in Khan You...
chuffed.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I just sent a campaign update for Fadi, my friend in Gaza. Thanks to your donations, he was able to get a new tent for his family after their old one was destroyed and they were displaced. If you are able to donate, that would be wonderful!
chuffed.org/project/1322...
chuffed.org/project/1322...
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"Longueuil police force is the embodiment of police reform, the 'avant-garde' of community-oriented policing."
"It was this police force, a reformed police force, that burdened Black and Arab people with oppressive police stops [..] and that finally killed Nooran."
#Quebec #Canada #Policing
"It was this police force, a reformed police force, that burdened Black and Arab people with oppressive police stops [..] and that finally killed Nooran."
#Quebec #Canada #Policing
The Killing of Nooran and the End of Community Policing – The Rover
The police shooting of an unarmed teen should call into question the sterling public image of the Longueuil police force and the role of countless reporters and elected officials in creating this…
therover.ca
September 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
My smart colleagues writing thoughtful things 👇
Great to co author with an amazing doctoral student Darby Babin !
Wrote a little something with my favourite academic aka my PhD supervisor @morsini.bsky.social on Fit For TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser.
theconversation.com/is-the-bigge...
theconversation.com/is-the-bigge...
September 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My smart colleagues writing thoughtful things 👇
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In September, Israel is set to play Canada in a Davis Cup tennis match in Halifax—sportswashing its genocide.
El Jones argues that Israel should not be allowed to play while it turns Gaza into a graveyard.
breachmedia.ca/israel-sport...
El Jones argues that Israel should not be allowed to play while it turns Gaza into a graveyard.
breachmedia.ca/israel-sport...
Israel is trying to sportswash its genocide—with Canada as host ⋆ The Breach
The sports boycott of apartheid South Africa taught us ‘there can be no normal sport in an abnormal society.’ Today, Israel must be banned over its crimes in Gaza
breachmedia.ca
August 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In September, Israel is set to play Canada in a Davis Cup tennis match in Halifax—sportswashing its genocide.
El Jones argues that Israel should not be allowed to play while it turns Gaza into a graveyard.
breachmedia.ca/israel-sport...
El Jones argues that Israel should not be allowed to play while it turns Gaza into a graveyard.
breachmedia.ca/israel-sport...
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‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine -- In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine
In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine -- In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The cop who punched Abdirahman Abdi to death in Ottawa, Daniel Montsion, was the highest paid officer in Ontario in 2024. His salary is nearly double the other highest salaries, at a stunning $410,710.
August 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The cop who punched Abdirahman Abdi to death in Ottawa, Daniel Montsion, was the highest paid officer in Ontario in 2024. His salary is nearly double the other highest salaries, at a stunning $410,710.
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I’m in the process of transferring @fadi1996.bsky.social some money to help pay for a new tent - they were kicked out of the one they were using - and to get food. If you’d like to contribute something that will get to him today or tomorrow, make a donation via PayPal. chuffed.org/project/1322...
Safety and Medical Treatment for Fadi and Afnan
My name is Emily, and I'm a professor in Canada. I'm running this campaign for Fadi, shown here with his nephew, and his wife Afnan. Originally from Gaza City, Fadi and Afnan are displaced in Khan You...
chuffed.org
August 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I’m in the process of transferring @fadi1996.bsky.social some money to help pay for a new tent - they were kicked out of the one they were using - and to get food. If you’d like to contribute something that will get to him today or tomorrow, make a donation via PayPal. chuffed.org/project/1322...
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Israel is not the only government in history to cut off access to food and water as a tool of war. The United States and Canada have also used starvation to conquer Indigenous peoples and acquire their land.
Starvation Has Long Been Used as a Weapon of War Against Indigenous People
Settler colonizers in the US and Canada destroyed Indigenous food systems in their bid to acquire land.
truthout.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Israel is not the only government in history to cut off access to food and water as a tool of war. The United States and Canada have also used starvation to conquer Indigenous peoples and acquire their land.
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Israel has now killed more journalists in Gaza than were killed in both world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia, combined. This is the deadliest conflict for journalists ever recorded.
Gaza is not just a war zone—it has become a graveyard for press freedom.
Gaza is not just a war zone—it has become a graveyard for press freedom.
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Israel has now killed more journalists in Gaza than were killed in both world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia, combined. This is the deadliest conflict for journalists ever recorded.
Gaza is not just a war zone—it has become a graveyard for press freedom.
Gaza is not just a war zone—it has become a graveyard for press freedom.
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Don't give your money to NGOs, politicians, or online pundits. Please donate instead directly to Gaza. Below is a link to the Sameer Project's South Gaza Campaign, which urgently needs support:
chuffed.org/project/1132...
chuffed.org/project/1132...
South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
chuffed.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Don't give your money to NGOs, politicians, or online pundits. Please donate instead directly to Gaza. Below is a link to the Sameer Project's South Gaza Campaign, which urgently needs support:
chuffed.org/project/1132...
chuffed.org/project/1132...