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The voice of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights at @McMasterU . #HamOnt RT ≠ endorsement.

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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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We will remain. We will not be moved. We will overcome. @McMasterU divest now. Free Palestine
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SPHR McMaster
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NO ONE should be given fines of up to 100K for speaking out against homelessness and apartheid! We alongside @DefundHPS demand these discriminatory tickets be dropped immediately! #DropTheChargesHamOnt
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SPHR McMaster
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ALL OUT TO THE PEOPLE’S FIELD FOR PALESTINE Today, students have launched the People’s University of McMaster encampment. Students will not stand idly by as their institution continues to stay silent on Genocide - @McMasterU it’s time to Disclose, Divest, Boycott, and Declare.
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Jummah Mubarak and Shabbat Shalom to our Muslim and Jewish comrades at the People’s Field 🤍🇵🇸 On this beautiful Friday, we are all united for a liberated and peaceful Palestine.
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The Refaat Alareer Library 🤍 Huge thank you to @kersplebedeb and community members for your donations. You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 6: We would like to inform everyone who has supported us, in any capacity, that setting up this encampment has brought us a step closer to getting our demands met. Today, students met with the Dean of Student Affairs for the first time since the encampment began. 1/3
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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After a thorough review using the critical appraisal skills we've honed at this institution, the students took it upon themselves to grade the latest statement from @McMasterU ’s president. Here's our feedback: please resubmit.
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Day 3: McMaster keeps saying they’re concerned about “health and safety”. However, we find that hard to believe when the same institution supports the ethnic cleansing and destruction of an entire generation of Palestinian lives. @McMasterU the time to divest is now.
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SPHR McMaster
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HAMILTON, CANADA MADE HISTORY ON SUNDAY MAY 16, 2021 WITH ONE OF THE LARGEST RALLIES IN THE CITY FOR DECADES. Thank you to everyone who came out for Palestine! ❤️🇵🇸❤️ #Hamilton4Palestine #FreePalestine #HamOnt #SaveSheikhJarrah
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SPHR McMaster
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Our Statement on what happened at the Hamilton Rally for Palestine on May 16, 2021. Please share!
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 4: A beautiful day at the People’s Field filled with wonderful students, faculty, and community members. From teach-ins to open-mic poetry, students remain steadfast in their demands and have turned @McMasterU ’s campus into a beautiful display of solidarity. DIVEST NOW.
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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🚨 McMaster students vote to end the encampment. Please read the attached statement by the McMaster Apartheid Divest Coalition. We thank the community for all their support. We could not have achieved this resolution without you all. Our work is far from finished.
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 13: The president recently released a statement, one portrayed as an ‘offer,’ providing no commitments and continuing to ignore his students’ demands. The student campers unanimously voted to reject the offer and continue the encampment. 1/7
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 19: As we spent the day and night alongside our amazing faculty, we fight for Gaza. We fight for the countless scholars who’s lives were stolen from them. And we fight for the 12 universities that were turned into rubble. We fight for @McMasterU to divest. Free Palestine.
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 5: and still no divestment. @McMasterU you cannot keep us waiting forever - but as long as you hide behind closed doors, and as long as the brutality in Palestine continues with your stamp of approval, we are more than prepared to stay until you address us. Until liberation.
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 2: Students continue their encampment at the People’s Field in solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters. Together, we pray for Rafah and are determined to stay until @McMasterU @McMasterProvost responds to our demands. DISCLOSE. DIVEST. BOYCOTT. DECLARE.
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SPHR McMaster
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🇵🇸‼️EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION‼️🇵🇸 Today, Saturday May 11th, join us at the People’s Field for Palestine (previously known as BSB) at 11:30am. Wear your kuffiyehs. Show your solidarity. 🇵🇸
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From Ghazal, a 15 year old girl in Gaza: "I would like to tell them that they are like stars in the dark of the night. What they do proves the meaning of humanity. I have lost hope in the world, but they proved that there are still some pure hearts in this world. Thank them."
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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As @McMasterU students, we send the highest level of admiration and respect to Dr. Loveless. May academia continue to be a space for principled and noble scholars 🇵🇸
@Mivasair
Rabbi David Mivasair🔥
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Resignation by @UAlberta Associate Dean for EDI because of university's violent repression. A strong message from a person of principle. 💪 Protest today at noon in front of SAB. #Disclose #Divest #Defend #Declare @Mcmastersphr @IndJewishVoices @JewsSayNo @ijvEdmonton
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SPHR McMaster
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Universities of Saskatchewan, Windsor, Montreal, Waterloo, Laurier, and Dalhousie have all had their Faculty Association vote in favour of BDS. 🇵🇸 @McMasterU it’s your turn.
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SPHR McMaster
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Kids growing up on the right side of the history 🇵🇸
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SPHR McMaster
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Our encampment has pushed the university to begin investigating our demands and its investment portfolios. Our alliance of students, faculty, staff, and alumni has never been stronger - and your presence has made this possible. Let us continue our fight for justice. 2/3
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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Hamilton Rally against Israel's Annexation Plan this Sunday July 5 from 3-5pm at Hamilton City Hall! Please RT to spread the word!
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SPHR McMaster
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Join us this Friday August 13th to learn more about academic boycotts and why we are calling McMaster to end partnership with Tel Aviv U. The zoom link will be added to our bio shortly 🇵🇸✊
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SPHR McMaster
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Part 2
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SPHR McMaster
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We thank the community for their endless support and generosity. 🇵🇸 We hope the university continues to engage in open dialogue and respects their students’ right to protest. Until a free palestine. 3/3
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SPHR McMaster
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Thank you @CPCHamilton for your statement in support!! Our statement is coming tonight!
@CPCHamilton
CPC Hamilton
3 years
We call on @HamiltonsMayor and @HamiltonPolice to immediately drop all charges and fines resulting from Sunday’s show of solidarity with the Palestinian people Full statement is here @mcmastersphr @DefundHPS @HamiltonHcsw @IndJewishVoices @compartycanada
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SPHR McMaster
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At this peaceful demonstration for Palestine, which abided by COVID-19 guidelines, @HamiltonPolice handed out more tickets than most have seen in the GTA— this means that they are scared, this means we are winning! ✊ #PalestineWillBeFree
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SPHR McMaster
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We have just launched our #DropTheChargesHamOnt campaign alongside @DefundHPS . We will be posting calls to action soon, please follow along!
@DefundHPS
Defund HPS
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Drop the Charges Campaign
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 1: Thank you to everyone who came out to support the students and the People’s University. What a beautiful day on campus. @McMasterU we will not stop we will not rest. DISCLOSE, DIVEST, BOYCOTT, DECLARE.
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SPHR McMaster
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Black, Palestinian, and racialized protestors are being targeted by Hamilton police, facing fines of up to $100,000 and potential jail time. Fundraiser now live: Share. Donate. Circulate. … Follow the campaign at #DropTheChargesHamOnt #HamOnt #onpoli
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SPHR McMaster
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From Six Nations to Palestine, colonization is a crime! Solidarity with our indigenous brothers and sisters.
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SPHR McMaster
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Thank you to our amazing Faculty allies, Jewish allies repped by @Mivasair , and #HamOnt MPs @SarahJama_ @MatthewGreenNDP for supporting the McMaster People’s University 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 and standing in solidarity with Palestine. Solidarity Until Liberation
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SPHR McMaster
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The power of community coming together to support our neighbours. This is #HamOnt
@HamOntESN
Hamilton Encampment Support Network
3 years
UPDATE: The eviction will NOT be taking place today. There have been violations of the encampment protocol and the defence line today has put eviction plans on a hard pause. Thank you to EVERYONE that came today and successfully defended the space, we keep us safe! 💖 #HamOnt
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SPHR McMaster
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Day 8: On this Mother’s Day, we remember the mothers in Gaza. We honour their resilience and their beauty. We mourn with them and for them. We commemorate their hardships. And most importantly,we come together to pay our respects. We do this for them. We fight for them.
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SPHR McMaster
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Please donate or RT to help McMaster SPHR organize Israeli Apartheid Week, a week of events aimed at raising public awareness of the occupation and strategies of resistance! Any bit helps! ❤🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
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SPHR McMaster
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Does “the safety and security of students, faculty and staff” only matter when it affects your campus @McMasterU ? A reminder that as your students are camped, thousands are being carpet bombed in Gaza. Strange how “health and safety” doesn’t pertain to an active genocide.
@hamilton4pali
Hamilton4Palestine
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🚨Press Release: Encampment Negotiation Updates 🚨 David Farrar, Susan Tighe and Sean Van Koughnett, your students are waiting for your response, on campus, on the People’s Field For Palestine, or as you may call it: BSB Field
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SPHR McMaster
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This is who we camp for. This is who we fight for. Until liberation
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SPHR McMaster
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Why is it taking them an encampment to declare such a thing when in the past, they did it immediately for Ukraine? McMaster’s racist double standard, which has been pointed out for the past seven months, persists. 5/7
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SPHR McMaster
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Once the university chooses humanity and is willing to implement a real plan of action, we await a productive meeting with the President and the Provost to discuss concrete commitments towards human rights for all. 7/7
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SPHR McMaster
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There is no academic freedom in the face of genocide. Sign this petition now and DEMAND @McMasterU ends their complicity in the ongoing occupation and genocide in Palestine 🇵🇸
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SPHR McMaster
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Simply said, McMaster’s conditional ‘offer’ is blind to the relentless efforts of their students and to the true nature of our demands, not only in the past thirteen days but for the past seven months. 3/7
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SPHR McMaster
7 years
First day of #IAW2017 was successful! Thanks to those who stopped by our table to talk to us and dropping by the Palestine 101 teach-in!
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SPHR McMaster
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Hey #HamOnt ! The next round of court dates are on July 21st: 👉Let the prosecutors know you want them to #DropTheChargesHamOnt by visiting: 👉Stay tuned for phone banking opportunities by @surj_toronto 👉Check out for more info
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SPHR McMaster
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The administration is failing to look past their privileged stance to see and acknowledge the suffering that is happening, with their blessing, in Gaza. Why is it hard to rid their complicity in Genocide? Why is it hard for them to admit that Palestinians are suffering? 4/7
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SPHR McMaster
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🚨Call to Action: Demand @McMasterU end its Partnership with Tel Aviv University Now! Since May 2021, McMaster has been promoting the elective course EXPLORE 4II3 - The beginning of science: Egyptian and Bablyonian conceptions of time and space. (1/3)
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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The students, faculty, staff and community’s determination will only grow stronger with each passing day and each attempt to dismiss their demands. Every day, the students fight for justice, and every day, McMaster’s complicity in genocide continues. 6/7
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SPHR McMaster
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COME OUT TO SUPPORT📍BSB FIELD
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SPHR McMaster
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Look who dropped by our table in MUSC today! @davidsheen http://t.co/TjAWl0ca3p
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SPHR McMaster
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Before the encampment, the University had seven months to discuss the concerns they now wish to address after the encampment ends. McMaster had the opportunity and continuously delayed taking steps towards the students’ demands—a trend they are yet again repeating. 2/7
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SPHR McMaster
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Wonderful initiative by @studentAsim ! Share your stories here:
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@studentAsim
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Hi @occupyuoft & hello world. As a @UofT alum I'd like to extend my training by documenting #gazaencampment stories worldwide! is collecting digital reflections on Palestine from the front lines. Stories balance narratives. #WriteIn
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SPHR McMaster
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Be sure to come out to our event with @davidsheen March 4th 2015 for Israeli Apartheid Week! #IAW http://t.co/ejvEaSIz9S
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SPHR McMaster
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“Everything that we do on campus, we do for Gaza. Gaza is the compass of our struggle and Rafah is our North Star” We will not rest until complete divestment from genocide. The time to act is now @McMasterU . All eyes on Rafah.
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SPHR McMaster
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Our 3rd #IAWMAC2017 event was a success! A lovely panel comparing settler colonialism in Palestine and Canada
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SPHR McMaster
3 years
Happy Birthday to legendary scholar and revolutionary Kwame Ture! Here is a snippet from a debate about the historical origins of Zionism.
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SPHR McMaster
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Check out this summary about the idea of liberal universities that Prof. @palumboliu mentioned in our Academic Boycott event last week (1/2)
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SPHR McMaster
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Sign the open letter directed to @McMasterU and Dr. Sarah Symmons. Show them we stand against apartheid. #MACagainstapartheid Sign the form now:
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SPHR McMaster
9 years
BDS PASSESSSS!!!!!!
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SPHR McMaster
3 years
The course is a virtual seminar, co-taught by Dr. Sarah Symmons from McMaster University and Dr. Eshbal Ratzon from Tel Aviv University (TAU).  We hold issue with the undue partnership between McMaster and TAU, a university deeply implicated in Israel's state violence (2/3)
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SPHR McMaster
7 years
We have endorsed this rally! Come out and fight Islamophobia with us in Toronto!
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SPHR McMaster
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@SarahJama_ @McMasterU @MatthewGreenNDP Power to the students & globalize the Intifada 🇵🇸
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SPHR McMaster
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Tomorrow is the last day to add/drop courses. Drop the EXPLORE 4II3 course from your schedules. Show @McMasterU that you stand against their partnership with TAU, an institution deeply implicated in Israeli apartheid.
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
8 years
Congratulations to our friends at @SjpUic on passing their divestment resolution! 👏🏼🎉 #UICDivest
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SPHR McMaster
8 years
Congratulations to our friends at @Sphr_McGill on passing their BDS resolution!!!!! 229-51 vote 😊
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SPHR McMaster
3 years
Don’t forget to register for Friday’s event at . We can’t wait for our amazing speakers #MACagainstApartheid
@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
3 years
EVENT REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Join us this Friday August 13th at 6:30PM EST to learn more about academic boycotts✊🇵🇸. After you register, the zoom link will be emailed to you shortly before the event! Register at:
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SPHR McMaster
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From Turtle Island to Palestine ethnic cleansing is a crime
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SPHR McMaster
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EVENT REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Join us this Friday August 13th at 6:30PM EST to learn more about academic boycotts✊🇵🇸. After you register, the zoom link will be emailed to you shortly before the event! Register at:
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SPHR McMaster
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SPHR McMaster
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Check out this clip from our Academic Boycott event where Prof. @palumboliu discusses BDS and Academic Boycotts of Israeli institutions. You can find the full clips on IG. Don’t forget to sign our open letter demanding @mcmasteru end partnership with TAU
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SPHR McMaster
10 years
In solidarity with the people of Ferguson and the family of Michael Brown #FromPalestinetoFerguson http://t.co/X7KD3uMtDQ
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SPHR McMaster
4 years
June Jordan names Palestine and queer liberation as the two issues that are a litmus test of morality. This clip is from the 1991 documentary a Place of Rage.
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SPHR McMaster
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We have gone live for Israeli Apartheid Week 2017! Stay tuned for our upcoming events - Join us in our struggle for justice #IAWMAC2017
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SPHR McMaster
7 years
Join us this week on our campus to see Lia Tarachansky discuss the rise of fascism in Israel.
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SPHR McMaster
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We hope to see you there
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SPHR McMaster
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Happy to have Lia speaking on the ethnocracy of Israel and the fascistic characteristics of Israeli society.
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@MatthewGreenNDP @DefundHPS Thank you so much for your support, it means a lot!✊✊✊
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SPHR McMaster
7 years
We are proud to host a Palestinian woman artist, Danah's work on display at tonight's coffee house! Please come out to see her work😊
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SPHR McMaster
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SPHR McMaster
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Please donate or RT to help McMaster SPHR organize Israeli Apartheid Week, a week of events aimed at raising public awareness of the occupation and strategies of resistance! Any bit helps! ❤🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
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SPHR McMaster
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Thank you to United in Colour for allowing us to collaborate on the #RockourSouls2017 Coffeehouse for #Iawmac2017
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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The @LCPal has launched a new Self-Reporting Tool to anonymously share incidents of anti-Palestinian racism at schools of all levels in Canada. By identifying anti-Palestinian racism, we can accurately address it. Access the tool at ‼️
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
7 years
Good morning! Today is the first day of Israeli Apartheid Week! Drop by the student centre to talk to us 😊
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SPHR McMaster
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Beautiful display of Palestinian culture and heritage at our #clubsfest table! Thank you to everyone who stopped by!
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SPHR McMaster
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Who's excited to meet us this Thursday in MUSC 220?🙋
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SPHR McMaster
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@nashwakay Thank you so much for your support! We really appreciate it ✊✊
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SPHR McMaster
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The Palestinian flag will be raised tomorrow at the UN! Woohoo!
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SPHR McMaster
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Our 4th #IAWMAC2017 event tonight at 7pm in collaboration with UIC! Come out and celebrate the cultural resistance of racialized women
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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We reached 250 signatures on our open letter. Sign now and demand @McMasterU end it’s partnership with Tel Aviv University. Email your professors and clubs and ask them to sign it too. #MACagainstapartheid
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SPHR McMaster
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@JoelHardenONDP @DefundHPS Thank you so much for your support!✊
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SPHR McMaster
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What do you think could have been improved about our CLUBSFEST booth! Let us know on twitter by sharing the hashtag #SPHRLIVEMEETING
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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A little throwback to the #BDS motion that was passed at McMaster university! Our greatest accomplishment. http://t.co/bXgFGkMYgv
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SPHR McMaster
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@MonaAbuamara So excited to have such an amazing leader like yourself attend our event! ♥️
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@mcmastersphr
SPHR McMaster
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Interested in Palestinian culture and poetry! Don't forget to buy your tickets for "WE TEACH LIFE" FOR 15$ on Sept 27th!
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SPHR McMaster
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@MatthewGreenNDP Thank you so much for joining us and sharing!
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SPHR McMaster
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🎉WE’RE HIRING! Applications to join the 2020-2021 SPHR McMaster team are out now! Follow the link in our bio to complete your application by March 21, 2020 at 11:59 PM!
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SPHR McMaster
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The full version can be found on YouTube under “Dr Kwame Ture Zionism Debate Lecture” - we recommend giving it a watch!
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