SAIA York

We are the Palestine solidarity movement at York University. We are the YU resistance. We are SAIA.

[SAIA York @SaiaYork]

To the #YorkU community,

We would like to express our views and concerns with the Cromwell Report and the prospect of the formal adoption of the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism by York University.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

@LTC_Shoshani This is incredibly vague. “Uncoordinated” meaning what exactly? “Advancing suspiciously towards IDF troops” just means the troops were stationed on the same path the ambulances were driving through. And what’s “suspiciously”?

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

The ruling class is learning from Israel what it can get away with. The normalization of brutality happens in increments. Once the public is desensitized, the unthinkable becomes routine. Bombing hospitals was once a scandal. Rafah was a ‘red line.’ Although it’s not genocidal violence, we see the same tactical playbook here: deplatforming, shadow banning, job losses—and now crackdowns in the US. Gaza is the testing ground—the tactics of priming are exported here. Today it’s protests, tomorrow social media. Today it’s ‘river to the sea,’ tomorrow it’s ‘Free Palestine.’

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

I’ve come to know more names of hospitals in Gaza than I do where I live.

The names of Gaza’s hospitals — Al-Shifa, Nasser, Al-Ahli Arab (where I was born, and where many of my relatives worked), Al Awda, Al Quds, Kamal Adwan, Indonesian, Turkish, European — aren’t just places anymore.

They’ve become symbols of resistance, of unimaginable suffering, and of the doctors and nurses who kept going even as the walls around them collapsed.

We’ve become more familiar with the geography of grief than our own surroundings. Each name carries the weight of the massacres, the siege, the deliberate targeting of life itself.

These hospitals should’ve been sanctuaries, but instead they became graveyards.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

Massacres reminiscent of Sabra and Shatila are unfolding in Syria right now. As many warned, HTS regime forces are carrying out mass ethnic cleansing operations across minority areas, primarily targeting Alawite families—and, so far, some Christian communities.

The videos circulating online are horrific: families and entire communities brutalized, humiliated, and then butchered.

If you’re Palestinian, the images of Sabra and Shatila are likely burned into your memory. Watching what’s happening in Syria today, it’s impossible not to be reminded of that dark chapter in our history—or to feel shaken to your core.

Whatever your stance on the former Assad regime, it doesn’t matter now. These HTS thugs must be stopped, and the new government must be held accountable before things get even worse.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

We’ve been saying this for a year and a half. Israel decided to use Oct 7 as its golden opportunity to expel the remainder of the Palestinian people and end the “conflict” once and for all.

Now with overt public approval by Trump.

It’s the Nakba of the century.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

First, they destroy their homes. Then they let them leave for medical treatment and faster housing—only to lock the door behind them and claim, “They left on their own.” Classic 1948 ethnic-cleansing tactic. Never gets old. Except it just did.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

The poignant images of Palestinians returning to their lands, reuniting with loved ones in scenes of profound joy — this is what was denied since 1948.

And it’s no wonder. Our return signifies more than a physical homecoming, but the triumph of resilience and human dignity.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

I’m getting a barrage of texts from 200 relatives of those sheltered in the Orthodox and Catholic churches in Gaza. The mood is joyous, celebratory. We’re seeing the restoration of hope…and faith — in both God and the armed resistance.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

I can’t wait to speak with Gabor Maté about Gaza and the role of therapists in confronting Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing. The event is full, but join the waitlist to get the recording.

https://t.co/ylS4i4EVHY

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

For the past several weeks, MPP Lisa MacLeod has encouraged anti-migrant sentiment in #Ottawa now she's bullying @OCDSB because they allowed an Arabic song abt peace during Rememberance Day claiming it made Jews "unsafe."

No ones safe unless everyone is safe. We deserve better.

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

What's more concerning than @MacLeodLisa's bigoted anti-Arab rant is the fact that she was able to successfully bully the @OCDSB into a response supporting her claims that an Arab language song made students "feel unsafe."

The school board needs to stand up for ALL students.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

Canada just legalized physical assault on those using protest chants as long as the chant could “reasonably inferred” to be a call for genocide. Inferred by whom? I wonder how this is going to turn out.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

@KonstantinKisin You also believed that we Palestinians are human beings

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

If we’re talking about Jewish values, @IndJewishVoices holds that spot. The one you’re referring to lost its connection to basic morality the moment it conflated antisemitism with criticism of a genocidal, racist pariah state.

[j @thickyrubio]

CNN tried to do a sympathy piece on IDF soldiers and then like halfway through the article you find out this guy was a D9 bulldozer driver who regularly drove over people while they were alive.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

CNN says Israeli troops endured “psychological trauma” for running over the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Imagine being a video game streamer who Norman Finkelstein yelled at and called 'fantastic moron' thinks he can win an argument w Gideon Levy 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

The hypocrisy is painful here.

The Director of @CIJAinfo's Israel Office, David Weinberg has called for Israel to expel family members of Palestinian “terrorists,” and compared the bombing of Gaza to “mowing your front lawn,” while likening Palestinians to “weeds” and “snakes.”

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

Finding out today that my great aunt Elham was indeed still alive when she was run over by an Israeli tank.

They crushed her to silence her screams. But they will never silence her music nor her legacy.

May the perpetrators be found and punished for this crime.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

“Whatever suffering there was in Gaza prior to October 7, it's just not the same as that [slavery during Nat Turner’s rebellion].” It may not be slavery in the literal sense, but the occupation evokes the same emotional experience. Basically Aziz minimizes Palestinian suffering.