“Our ability to talk, teach, and learn about Palestine and Palestinian liberation, as this report shows, has long been under punitive threat at York University. Under the current administration, this threat has deepened exponentially,” conclude the authors of the new report, titled Surveilled & Silenced: A Report on Palestine Solidarity at York University.
The report, published in October, draws from surveys carried out separately by the York University Faculty Association’s Race Equity Caucus and by the student group Palestine Solidarity Collective.
The surveys were initiated after hearing mounting anecdotal evidence from Palestinian students and their allies about increased policing of their actions, harassment from other students and faculty in class, at rallies or even in their dorms, microaggressions and overt racial slurs, online doxxing, and more.
The findings are divided into four main themes:
- Silence and inaction from the administration
- Justifying repression by using “community safety” rhetoric
- Hyper-surveillance and increased police harassment
- Growing distrust for the administration
If you want to find out who rules over you, discover first who you aren’t allowed to criticise
When is the next election? Palestinians haven’t had an election since they voted in the Hamas terrorists, and while it was a bold move nearly 20 years ago, it turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. The terrorists are also dictators and there has never been another election.
Over a year ago, their government has attacked Israel without any preparations or any allies to back them up. Now the people suffer and are used as pawns so Hamas leadership can continue to live their wealthy existence, sucking off the cream from the top.
Hamas is the problem, not Israel. Yet the Hamas bootlickers are all over these forums spreading their hatred of Jews and attacking them across the world.
Shame! Shame! Shame!
I wonder how many current university students were old enough to vote nearly 20 years ago? It would be surprising if there was even 1.
Hmm, maybe cheering for Hamas isn’t a good way to make friends?
Definitely not. The same way that cheering for genocide, apartheid, war crimes, occupation and crimes against humanity doesn’t win friends either.
Hamas ≠ Palestinians
It’s like that “if all gloops are glorps but not all glorps are gloops, how many glorps are snozzes?” problem back in school.
No, that’s right. But most Palestinians and their supporters immediate following Oct 7 were supporting Hamas. Israel’s actions of the last year have changed that calculation and now, hopefully, the Palestinians will reject terrorism.
most Palestinians and their supporters immediate following Oct 7 were supporting Hamas.
This is untrue.
It is true.
Agree.
Let the down votes come.
