Gulzar R. Charania

The Palestinian Olympic Committee reports that 1,007 members of the sports community in Gaza have been killed, 265 sports facilities destroyed, and 5 athletes remain missing during the genocide.

Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine in Sociology of Sport Journal Derek Silva * , Nathan Kalman-Lamb , Chen Chen , Kristi Allain , Jason Laurendeau , Janelle Joseph , Daniel Sailofsky , Shrehan Lynch , Anthony Weems , Leyla Hamed , Priyansh , Adam Ali , Roc Rochon , Zuleikha Chikh , Charlotte Phillips , Jules Boykoff , R. Taha , Jess Nachman Zeana Hamdonah,7 Thomas Ross Griffin,15 Anima Adjepong,16 and Jeffrey Montez de Oca17 In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature focuses on the philosophical, ethical, and political foundations of events that are conventionally described as “genocide,” little scholarly attention has been paid to genocide in the disparate fields that make up sports studies. Even less attention has been paid to the role that sport, sporting cultures, and athletics may, or may not, play in genocide and genocidal campaigns. To address this gap, we advocate for the development of a sociology of athleticide as one possible point of departure for advancing sports studies’ understanding of the role that sport can, and often does, play in times of genocide and the impact of state violence on sport. There is no neutrality, there can be no neutrality or objectivity about Palestine : : : . There is no indifference, no objectivity, no neutrality because there is simply no room for them in a space that is as crowded and overdetermined as this one. (Said, 1986, pp. 29–30) In this paper, our scholarly collective …

The Palestinian Olympic Committee report 1,007 members of the Gaza athletic community have been murdered by Israel.

Athleticide.

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Let Black history month serve to remind us that the living legacy of slavery is the carceral state- policing, prison, immigration detention, and border enforcement. Abolition now.

More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In. See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas

Canada/IRCC has chosen to make it difficult for Palestinian students — 134 from Gaza accepted into Canadian universities for graduate degrees/PhDs — to get here.

Article + interactive map of where students were accepted & their programs, by @ericwickham.ca

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Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE - Halifax Examiner An unbridled fascist state next door will necessarily lead to the end of Canadian sovereignty.

Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE

Morning File by me

Loved this episode of Academic Aunties!

‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I. At Carleton University, CUPE 4600 -— the union representing Teachers Assistants, Research Assistants, and Contract Instructors — held the ‘Keep Carleton Human’ rally on Thursday, fighting for clear-cu...

> “This could become a school where ChatGPT writes the papers, ChatGPT grades the papers, rich kids buy an experience, and nobody gets an education,” says Ariel Becherer, a PhD student

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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

“As I document in my forthcoming book, we can’t get accountability from the ‘regular’ police, whatever that means: after decades, we haven’t been able to achieve something as basic as an honest civilian review board with subpoena powers and the ability to hire and fire officers!” —Robin D. G. Kelley

As an Indigenous person, watching Trump make plans to invade an Indigenous territory is fucking terrifying. Everyone is making this about Denmark, but it will be Inuit facing this new wave of violent colonization.

We, the undersigned, citizens and permanent residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to: 1. Initiate investigations under The CAHWCA into Canadian citizens and residents who served in the IDF, and if warranted, lay charges or refer to international courts; 2. Cooperate with international courts by sharing findings and providing financial or law enforcement support, as exemplified by assistance to the ICC's investigation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine; 3. Direct the Canada Border Services Agency to screen Canadian citizens/residents returning from Israel for foreign military service; 4. Investigate the HESEG Foundation for violations of section 11(1) of Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act; 5. Issue warnings that Canadians serving/volunteering with the IDF may face criminal liability under Canadian law; and 6. Create a government website to collect information from Gaza/West Bank war crime victims/witnesses, as in the case of Ukraine.

CANADIANS!
Please sign and share this Parliamentary Petition backed by MP Heather McPherson re returning IDF soldiers and HESEG.

*Don’t forget to check for an email from ourcommons and confirm yr signature.

*Correction to previous post. Apologies MP McPherson.
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

It was great to see you, Amy!

In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity

Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.

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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

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Professor claims University of Ottawa ‘intimidated’ Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility, moved off-campus last minute - The Fulcrum Reading Time: 5 minutes“They are suppressing the truth, and they are aiding and abetting the continuation of the violations of international law.”

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Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...

Heres Jocelyn Thorpe and I in the @winnipegfreepress.com, talking about everyone’s favourite topics, sewage & environmental racism: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

“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.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Free screening of the documentary "The Encampments" at uOttawa on Nov 5, 7pm! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-encamp...

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

Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained

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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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...

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.

"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."

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...

"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."

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...

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!

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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…

"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