@ant-for-the-w.bsky.social
French-American. Assistant prof studying the intersection of sport with ethnonationalism, fascism, colonialism, and imperialism.
“It does not surprise me that the US would threaten to intervene, given that they are Israel’s top collaborator in genocide”…
is one of many things I said about the potential ban of Israel by UEFA in this piece, which also quotes the great @julesboykoff.bsky.social.
www.aa.com.tr/en/sports/re...
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
29.09.2025 13:13 — 👍 4416 🔁 1812 💬 97 📌 210Daniel Sailofsky (@dansailofsky.bsky.social): calling for a boycott of Israeli athletes is not anti-semitism
05.09.2025 12:01 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0BOYCOTT THE WORLD CUP AND THE 2028 SUMMER OLYMPICS!
Yes, I said it.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
Paris St. Germain crowd holds up sign reading "Stop Genocide A Gaza"
Ep. 164: On Athleticide
@derekcrim.bsky.social and @nkalamb.bsky.social are joined by the incredible @leylahamed.bsky.social to rage about all the ways in which sport continues to play an instrumental role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Columbia and Brown, by settling, have encouraged this tactic. Authoritarians are emboldened by capitulation, and they won't stop until the cost outweighs the benefits.
31.07.2025 19:12 — 👍 727 🔁 248 💬 8 📌 9In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals
31.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 454 🔁 291 💬 10 📌 2And speaking of football, it was 11 years ago during the 2014 ‘war’ that Israel slaughtered 13 kids at two beaches in Gaza, 5 days apart. First they killed 9 kids as they were watching the FIFA world cup. 5 days later, Israel killed 4 kids who were playing football.
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31.07.2025 11:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A chicken joint that’s inside a baseball stadium: Fowl Ball
18.07.2025 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How’s that ‘institutional neutrality’ working out for y’all now?
13.07.2025 21:27 — 👍 65 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 1Never underestimate the violence & cruelty of whiteness.
10.07.2025 13:10 — 👍 29 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1![In several cases, S. said, Israeli troops deliberately targeted children. “There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn’t do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That’s it — they dropped a grenade from a drone.” In another incident, he said, soldiers tried to kill a child riding a bicycle a great distance away from them.
“In most cases, there was nothing you could tell yourself,” S. continued. “There was no way to complete the sentence, ‘We killed them because…’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreibb5e6ubweta56wvyqx4xco6syddlywpg5k4rgy5ehp76rmgboht4@jpeg)
In several cases, S. said, Israeli troops deliberately targeted children. “There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn’t do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That’s it — they dropped a grenade from a drone.” In another incident, he said, soldiers tried to kill a child riding a bicycle a great distance away from them. “In most cases, there was nothing you could tell yourself,” S. continued. “There was no way to complete the sentence, ‘We killed them because…’”
“There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn’t do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That’s it — they dropped a grenade from a drone.”
Israeli soldiers on murdering children w/ drone grenades to send message: "learning through blood."
Gaza football star killed in Israeli strike, raising athlete death toll to 585 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-football-star-killed-israeli-strike-raising-athlete-death-toll-585
04.07.2025 13:42 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
folks, may I present the esteemed Charlie Kirk
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My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
04.07.2025 13:52 — 👍 159 🔁 88 💬 13 📌 15
Mahmoud Khalil's wife's quote in the NYT vs the full quote
NYT laundering genocide as it does
21.06.2025 20:59 — 👍 184 🔁 78 💬 1 📌 2
BREAKING: Israeli media says there was 'full coordination' between the US and Israel over attack on Iranian nuclear facilities
Just pause and consider that the United States is operating in full active collaboration with a genocidal regime. Every American who participates in this travesty of a war has responsibility for that.
22.06.2025 00:42 — 👍 261 🔁 79 💬 2 📌 2
“We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” said the declaration from the girl held with her mother and two younger siblings at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center. “An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first.”
The conditions at an ICE family detention facility in Texas are so bad that adults are literally physically jockeying with children for *water.*
This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.
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for context: the US invaded Iraq in 2003. This episode aired a year later.
(so, yes, it was this stupid)
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Duh?
13.06.2025 19:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fascism entails this constant capacity to shock. Things once taken for granted begin to fall apart. And yet we must continue to say: Free Mahmoud Khalil.
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Death toll from aid site attack rises to 31: Gaza’s Civil Defence An attack earlier this morning near an aid distribution point in central Gaza is now confirmed to have killed 31 people, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence. About 200 people have also been wounded and taken to hospitals, he said, adding that the casualties were a result of “Israeli tank and drone fire”.
Israel is quickly trying to normalize a new and unimaginable form of depravity: mass-murdering aid-seekers.
Al Jazeera reports at least 31 more people were killed and 200 injured by IDF drones and tanks this morning.
Do not become numb to this atrocity.
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
Utterly surreal hearing silence during the match instead of being lead by the 3252. Powerful AF. #lafc #abolishice
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Moving beyond the ornamental assertion of class and patriarchy as relational, @drmeljohnston.bsky.social delivers a BIG contribution to current debates on capitalist patriarchy with this latest article in @ripejournal.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
if you set the distribution of harms from pollution (e.g. cancer and asthma rates) next to the distribution of benefits from economic cooperation (e.g. income/wealth gaps) then the narrative that environmentalism is for the rich is the thing we should find surprising!
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