Sparrows for Palestine

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Honestly speechless at how depraved this is.

🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...

🐦🔎 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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This is pretty jaw-dropping stuff.

As far as we know not yet, but we believe @davidemastracci.bsky.social is working on it

5 of the soldiers listed in @davidemastracci.bsky.social's database are doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One of them went to serve as a reserve fighter after October 7, 2023: substack.com/home/post/p-...

🐦🔎 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:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

As they should!

UNB historians denounce their university’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal violence in Palestine Editor’s Note: This text was shared by email on September 17 to the University of New Brunswick community by members

"UNB historians denounce their university’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal violence in Palestine"
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🐦🫶🇵🇸 Follow us on Substack to learn more about how universities are complicit with apartheid and genocide, and find generative ways forward. First post out, second one coming very soon! substack.com/@sparrowsfor...

The Palestine exception AND the ongoing coloniality of British academia are in full display yet again

A photo of MIT students and community members attending a Palestinian solidarity protest at city hall in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 9, 2024, overlaid with the headline, "MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure," and the DEK, "“This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency.""

“Student action is not meaningless.” interc.pt/4nR9Gvf

How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become? Quick answer: Very, very much.

In September 2025, an email regarding the expansion of the Canadian reciprocity work permit pathway for new hires from the Germany to the UK and Israel was sent to “Dean’s Office and Academic HR colleagues” Email quoted here: substack.com/home/post/p-... 4/

Since 2003, UofT has been in partnerships w 8 Israeli academic institutions:
•HUJI (est. 2003)
•Technion (est. 2013)
•TAU(est. 2015)
•U of Haifa (est. 2015)
•Weizmann Institute (est. 2016)
•Jerusalem College of Technology (est. 2018)
•Ben Gurion U (est. 2018)
•🇮🇱 Institute (est. 2021) 2/

🐦🔎 Quick answer: Deep. Very deep:
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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.

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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At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.”

“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

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If we ever live in a just world that holds individuals accountable for collaboration in genocide, I wouldn’t want to be a U of T administrator.

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.

Sparrows for Palestine | Substack Sparrows for Palestine is a collective of university members who care about our institutions respecting international law and, therefore, ending their complicity in the occupation and genocide of the ...

🐦🔎This is our first of many stories to come. Make sure to subscribe for updates and to follow us on our socials! 9/ substack.com/@sparrowsfor...

Middle East & North Africa - U of T International U of T enjoys a rich history of engagement and collaboration in higher education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Not only has UofT not developed a single partnership w a Palestinian institution these past 20 years, but it has also failed, as per available information, to do so with any of the world’s 22 Arab-speaking countries. Why is that? One wonders... 8/ international.utoronto.ca/internationa...

How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become? Quick answer: Very, very much.

How many partnerships with Palestinian universities is the University of Toronto involved in? None 7/
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How widespread are UofT’s partnerships with Israeli institutions? If one excludes the Humanities, the reach of Israeli partnerships within the UofT is staggering. 6/ substack.com/home/post/p-...

Five Israeli institutions are subsequently listed. In other words, despite 2 years of ongoing genocide, the University of Toronto continues to deepen its entanglements with Israeli institutions 5/

How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become? Quick answer: Very, very much.

In September 2025, an email regarding the expansion of the Canadian reciprocity work permit pathway for new hires from the Germany to the UK and Israel was sent to “Dean’s Office and Academic HR colleagues” Email quoted here: substack.com/home/post/p-... 4/

The Ties That Bind — UofT’s Relationships with Israeli Institutions by Sparrows for Palestine Collective

Between October 2023 and August 2025, Ties that Bind lists publicly available evidence pertaining to partnerships with 3 universities: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 3/ isisnaucratis.medium.com/the-ties-tha...