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▲ 550 r/Albertapolitics+6 crossposts

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach

Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

In 2024, top officials at the University of Alberta were deliberating about how to deal with a student encampment, one of dozens popping up around the country in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 

After locking down campus buildings, they shared an update with a network of other universities planning similar responses—on one condition: keep this “absolutely secret.”

It was clear why: in Alberta, the secretly-coordinated effort, which would culminate in militarized raids at multiple universities, would involve not just police but also an official from Danielle Smith’s UCP government.

An investigation by The Breach reveals how the Universities of Calgary and Alberta and many others across the country worked in tandem to suppress the activism of their students. 

Documents acquired through access-to-information requests—often obtained amid delays, obstruction, and even the destruction of records by university officials—provide the most comprehensive portrait of the universities’ activities to date. 

University emergency managers operated two parallel covert emergency management networks—one national, and one in Alberta—comprising educational institutions, provincial government officials, and police. 

Through these networks, university emergency managers shared information to surveil and suppress Charter-protected political activity on their campuses.

Records reveal that an official from Alberta’s UCP government attended a secret emergency meeting of the network just one week before the scenes of police violence at the U of Calgary and U of Alberta. 

He was not merely a passive observer, but a participant who personally asked how post-secondary institutions would keep his Ministry of Advanced Education informed going forward, establishing that channel for communications even before a single encampment had formed.

“All Albertans should be deeply concerned about the far-right provincial government’s interventions in the management and dealings of a university,” said Michael Litwack, a U of A professor who participated in the encampment at that university.

The University of Alberta insisted its communication update be kept “absolutely secret,” a practice that pervaded the networks. 

When The Breach submitted over a dozen access-to-information requests for records of their activities, the universities systematically destroyed, withheld, and misrepresented the evidence of their secret coordination. 

They released documents only after extensive appeals and legal challenges. Formal reviews through Alberta’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in some cases took months to resolve. Even then, they often produced only heavily redacted records.

Over the course of more than a year, two Breach reporters cross-referenced what one institution said against what it told another public body, and what one reporter received against what another did not. 

That approach exposed contradictions the universities hadn’t accounted for.

breachmedia.ca
u/Sabotage_9 — 3 months ago
▲ 403 r/YesAmericaBad+3 crossposts

Discussion: "I am against Judaism. Just as I am defending my Islam from ISIS, you defend your Judaism from Zionism. I am going to continue to view Jews as terrorists and say that they are terrorists until they defend their religion like I defend my religion." - Ahed Tamimi

Quote from this speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzf_ACKBevo

After engaging quite a bit with folks in this sub during the ongoing genocide against my people in West Asia, I'm sharing this quote alongside some of my observations. I hope it will encourage reflection and introspection by some of the members of this sub:

In my city, every single synagogue directly and materially supports the genocide in West Asia. They fundraise for Israel, encourage their members to join the IDF, hold propaganda events promoting and whitewashing Israel, and lobby governments, media, and businesses to support Israel and the genocide, including by encouraging state authorities to crack down on anti-genocide activists. (FWIW, I have personally been a victim of some of the worst of this state repression.) We of course have anti-Zionist Jews in my city, but they make up less than 1% of the Jewish population; a recent poll showed that only 1% of Jews in my country identify as anti-Zionist.

By contrast, every mosque in my city openly opposes ISIS and similar "Islamic" terrorism, including by collaborating with law enforcement to crack down on people spreading radicalization or promoting recruitment into such groups. I have never heard ISIS being praised from any official platform in my city's Muslim community (in stark contrast to the open devotion to Israel by official Jewish community orgs and leaders).

I suspect similar patterns hold in most, if not all, cities in the Western world.

Given these facts and the above quote from Tamimi, and given the typical sorts of reactions I see in this sub to these subjects, I want to pose the following questions:

Is Palestinian hatred of Jews motivated by European-style racism/antisemitism, or by anger at the daily slaughter/rape/starvation of them, their children, their families, and their countrymen at the hands of Jewish-Supremacist Jews?

Why are the victims of Jewish Supremacism constantly policed for condemning their oppressors in the same language that their oppressors refer to themselves (i.e. as "Jews")? Should Jews living during the Holocaust have been held to such a standard if they were to make generalizations about Germans?

Is it appropriate for Jewish allies to condemn Palestinians as antisemitic when they speak out against the community that's most responsible for their ongoing holocaust (i.e. the Jewish community)? Would it have been acceptable for anti-Nazi Germans to have made such condemnations against Jewish generalizations about Germans?

Is the primary role of Jewish allyship with Palestine to bring an end, by any means necessary, to the Jewish community's own participation in the genocide? Or is it to launder the image of Judaism by highlighting the minority (a very very small minority in some places) of anti-Zionist Jews, who themselves are not truly representative of the Jewish majority?

Are you, as Jewish allies, spending as much time working to end your own community's complicity in genocide as you are policing perceived antisemitism in the anti-genocide movement?

Lastly, how much time have you spent raising awareness about the fact that Israel blew up a synagogue in Iran earlier this year?

(I should clarify that much of this conversation is aimed at Jewish communities in the Western world; there are indigenous Jewish communities across Asia and Africa who for the most part have not disgraced themselves with support for Zionism and to whom much of this discussion does not apply.)

I pose these questions in good faith, as someone who has seen much dedication and sacrifice from countless anti-Zionist Jewish comrades in this cause, and with genuine curiosity to hear your thoughts on all of the above.

u/Sabotage_9 — 3 months ago
▲ 378 r/DepropagandizedNews+7 crossposts

This box contains a Palestinian unborn baby inside. His mother lost her unborn child after the ambulance was held by occupation forces over 30 minutes in West Bank . Israeli soldiers ordered the engine off, disabling life‑saving equipment, they even checked the mother who was bleeding.

u/Not_Ground — 3 months ago
▲ 360 r/leftist+2 crossposts

Zionism is racism

"And the thing is, when Zionist leaders like Netanyahu and Ben-Gurion talk about Palestinian people and Palestinian towns posing an ‘existential threat’ to the state of Israel, they are absolutely correct!  Let me be clear: I don’t mean that Palestinians pose an existential threat to the lives of Jewish people in Israel, their safety or their security.  What I mean is that insofar as Israel is to be characterised as a Jewish state, the Palestinian people will always pose a threat to it by the fact of their very existence, and the risk that they may ever exist in large enough numbers or concentrations to threaten Israel’s ethnic composition.  The right of Palestinians in the diaspora to return, the political rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories to full democratic rights – in short, the rights of the Palestinian people – do pose an existential threat to Israel.

This is what we mean when we say that Zionism is a racist ideology and that Israel is an inherently racist state.  In addition to being founded on a racist settler-colonial mentality that gave no regard to the rights of the Palestinians, the actual realisation of Zionism’s aims necessitated the destruction of the Palestinian nation.  Israel’s very existence as ‘Israel’, as a Zionist state, is premised on the denial of the fundamental rights of the Palestinians.  It could not have been any other way."

revolutionarycommunist.org
u/Sabotage_9 — 4 months ago