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.

UofT has not funded or supported Palestinian scholars-at-risk (like they did for Ukranians feeling Russia). The data suggests that, rather than divesting or cutting ties with Israeli institutions, UofT is hardening its position and increasing collaborations with Israel [3/3]

Sparrows for Palestine provides evidence for a deepening of partnerships between UofT and Israeli universities. And how UofT intends to increase work permit applications for citizens of Israel. Meanwhile UofT has not released a statement on the war crimes perpetrated by Israel in Palestine [2/3]

As Alatas writes bebalisma "does not result from absence of knowledge of the subject" but from colonialism. As a result the fool "cannot awaken resistance against injustice." So, the question is: who amongst us has been exhibiting bebalisma these past 2 years of a genocide? 5/

Alatas writes that it is often in times of crisis that bebalisma is exposed. Education has less to do with this trait of bebalisma (since everyone has the opportunity to learn) and more with the inability of the educated to make use of this opportunity (to learn) 4/

Alatas writes"Bebalisma is a parasite of the mind." It "makes educated persons blind at some points in their thinking... those whose minds are dominated by some of all of the traits of bebalisma to the extent that they cannot function to the level required by the demand of the situation" 3/

Bebalisma" allows public commentators, academics, and intellectuals to be hasty in generalising. It has no respect for logic and evidence or capacity for a contextual appraisal of a problem, and arguments are marked by a lack of refinement. When a bebalian writes they are insensitive to facts 2/