Assistant Professor in Physics, University of Toronto. Climate scientist. Settler. Thoughts my own. Stop the genocide! Free Palestine!
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"So far over 700 patients – many of them children – have died waiting for permission to be granted to leave Gaza by Cogat, the Israeli government department responsible for approving medical evacuations, according to the WHO." and this body count is not included in the ~65k death toll GENOCIDE
A remarkable essay on, among other things, the personal toll of working at the consent factory. bidoun.org/articles/hou...
From the first light of dawn, Gaza City woke to its sky on fire and the earth underneath trembling due to the relentless Israeli airstrikes
The footage coming out of Gaza is the worst I've ever seen. God forgive us.
If you are a Canadian educator, please strongly consider signing your name to this pledge to continue talking about Palestine. Note that the link to sign is just above the list of signatories. faculty4palestine.ca/wp-content/u...
This is so hard to read. I’m usually so focused on the children who we slaughter day after day, but these men — at least 10,000 of them now in Israeli prisons, all hostages themselves — these men are “left to rot” in horrifying desperate ways, or actively tortured. I can’t imagine. 💔
Faculty for Palestine have made an educators’ pledge to reject the Palestine Exception, could you have a look and sign and distribute to Columbia colleagues? Link to sign right above signatories: faculty4palestine.ca/wp-content/u...
Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.
⭕ Gaza Media Office: Only 4,543 aid trucks entered Gaza in the past 50 days — just 15% of the Strip’s needs — as Israel continues what it calls the “engineering of starvation and chaos.”
"The facts are 65,000 dead at least, of whom at least 20,000 are children. These deaths are not accidents.. they are the direct consequence of a military strategy" A UN report has concluded Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Chris Sidoti is one of the authors of the report
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.
This is Mira. She’s 4 years old. A new investigation on Israel & Gaza by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant cites 15 international doctors who report at least 114 Palestinian children with single gunshot wounds to head/chest. Forensic experts attest these consistent with aimed fire. 1/3
More images from last night in Gaza where children and families were burned alive.
“In testimonies collected by the Dutch daily Volkskrant, 15 out of 17 doctors described encountering children under 15 with single bullet wounds to the head or chest. Together, they identified 114 such cases during their missions in Gaza.”
Medics returning from Gaza say Israel deliberately targeting children with sniper, drone fire, Dutch newspaper reports.
Three more Palestinians die of starvation in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-more-palestinians-die-starvation-gaza
145 children. At the very least.
"Two Palestinian citizens died of starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip within the past 24 hours... The new victims have raised the total number of hunger-related deaths in the famished coastal territory to 422 people, including 145 children..." english.palinfo.com/news/2025/09...
In the early hours of the day, hundreds of exhausted Palestinians were forced to leave Gaza City southbound as a result of the constant Israeli bombing threats and indiscriminate bombardment.
ONE IN FIVE. www.unicef.org/press-releas...
'“1 in 5 children in Gaza City was diagnosed with acute malnutrition in August and needed life-saving nutritional support from UNICEF.” ...ongoing Israeli attacks have forced approximately 10 nutrition centers to shut down, putting even more children at risk.' english.palinfo.com/news/2025/09...
It is horrifying how many Americans, including officials within the U.S. government, can witness civilians in Gaza, especially babies, being burned in their tents or torn apart in the streets and shelters by U.S.-made bombs, & yet feel no urgency to stop it. How deeply shameful. How utterly inhumane
Eh, is this the worst? These are imperial war ships. They are floating weapons for a colonial power. Do you think Tubman would have consented? Of course we should recognize these American heroes….but this always seemed pretty weird and maybe not the right way for them.
in the WEST BANK
Atmospheric Physics faculty position at Univ of Toronto - help us make use of satellite and aircraft capabilities that are on their way in Canada! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
"Gaza now has the highest density of child amputees in the world and in history. It takes partnerships across government, science, medicine, humanitarian response, and advocacy to ensure children survive and can recover after blast injuries." Said PRINCE HARRY. www.jpost.com/internationa...
"...he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed - After Salem was shot, his father, Montasser, 51, rushed to the site, and tried to collect his sons’ bodies for burial, but was also fatally injured by a sniper" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
"Brothers and nurses Othman and Salah Al-Aymawi were killed after the Israeli occupation targeted an apartment near Matuq in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, joining their three siblings who were killed in previous Israeli strike. #GazaGenocide " www.threads.com/@aljarmaq_ne...
"The infant Mohammed Mazen Al-Qara (2.5 months old) died this morning at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis due to malnutrition and lack of medical care, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in #Gaza & warnings of a disaster threatening the lives of 1000s of children." www.threads.com/@aljarmaq_ne...
"Victoria Rose, who volunteered in Gaza, recounts the unbearable reality of operating amputations on children without anaesthesia. She describes how the first 6 cases each day were children, their screams echoing until the afternoon as doctors ran out of vital medicines." youtube.com/shorts/XPy5g...
"Israel is perpetrating massacres in Gaza City and northern Gaza areas, using airstrikes, firebelts, drone attacks and bomb-filled remote controlled vehicles to destroy residential buildings, ambulances and tent shelters of displaced Palestinian families." youtu.be/G_TF6gx4NNs?...
"[W]ar itself causes cancer." "Israel's relentless death machine has created at least 50 million tons of rubble, human remains, and hazardous materials — all the noxious ingredients necessary for a future cancer epidemic." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide
Israel’s own military database indicates that only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters. Civilians are the vast majority, facing extreme torture, hunger, rape, and violent deaths. These are Palestinian hostages.
It was a choice for the US government to deny safe passage to 907 Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. And right now, as the Israeli military drops bombs drop on over 2 million displaced and starved Palestinians, we know that it is the choice of Israeli officials to enact genocide on Palestinians.
When the MS St. Louis circled the coast of Florida in 1939, carrying 907 European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, it was President Roosevelt who made the infamous choice to deny them entry to the United States, forcing them to return to Nazi Germany and their deaths.
Hind Rajab.
"For nearly two years, countless detainees and prisoners have been confined to near-total solitude, cut off from the outside world. This isolation is weaponised as a form of physical and psychological torture, designed to break the human spirit.
yes, this is truly the crux of the problem.
well let's agree to disagree, anonymous person. I stand by what I said, I think your framing is wrong, and it doesn't seem more right as you explain it.
www.fox5atlanta.com/news/electio... I dunno, I think being able to say "America is a racist country" is easy and fine. it's healthy to point out the obvious. we need to agree on reality as a starting point in order to fix it. it's SO racist! try to tell me a fascist convinced me of that!
so what's a "country" then? a state? or its people? I contend that a lot of Americans--people--like the direction of the country right now, the state, and that's how Trump won the popular vote. I am saying that majorities can sometimes wish ill and want bad things. this is not controversial.
I definitely agree that a democracy is preferable to what the founders set up!
oops, I confused the two anonymous accounts - it was the other account that mentioned the fundamental nature, and I disagreed. I stand by that. we're funding a genocide currently, you probably noticed. the founders with their ideals....participated in chattel slavery.
even if there *weren't* an ideal or dream worth fighting for, people must fight in the US just to live, and have dignity. it's always worth a fight. but that doesn't mean that there is some fundamental goodness to the nature of the country. they don't have to both be true.
look, you were making a comment about the "fundamental nature" of the country. not its ideals, not whether it's worth fighting for, and not whether anyone responding has volunteered thousands of hours for progressive candidates. nature =/= ideals.
uhhh I don't know what "loyal to the country" even means
the "fundamental nature" of a state that was founded due to genocide and built due to slavery is really really really bad.
Literally indistinguishable from the manifesto of neo-fascist group Patriot Front
Are they wrong though? What part of centuries of chattel slavery and Trump being elected twice are they misreading? The US is ideally nice and in practice a horrible bigoted white supremacist murder machine
Scenes of chaos play out in Gaza City as military closes in on panic-stricken residents facing forced displacement.
Gaza has had twice as many bombs dropped on it since 2023 as Hamburg, Dresden and London combined during WWII.
“Now, sugar is a rumor. Milk is a myth. Real fruit is only something you can dream about. When a child bites into medicine and calls it ice cream, it’s not just due to hunger. It’s a grief too old to be soothed. -Logain Hamdan, from Gaza, for @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/08/25/a...
"These past few weeks, more and more children have shared that they wish to be dead." "I wish I were in heaven, where my mother is. In heaven, there is love. There is food and water." "A few kilometres away stand ready a sea of supplies." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide
"Children do not have the strength to speak or even cry out in agony. They lie there, emaciated ... their tiny bodies overcome by hunger and disease."
“Professor William Schabas, one of the world’s foremost authorities on genocide and international criminal law….argues that the case filed by South Africa against Israel at the ICJ is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court,” “
Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege. (📸 Hidden Palestine)
Eight-month-old Susan Haniya, who weighs under five kilograms, is struggling with acute malnutrition and a critical chest illness while sheltering in a tent.
Jouri Lafi was killed in Khan Younis, south Gaza, when an Israeli missile struck her family’s house.
An Israeli drone launched grenades at Palestinians in Gaza.
Her son was killed in the latest Israeli strikes on Khan Younis, southern Gaza, leaving his devastated mother holding only his shoe as the last remnant of him.
Newborns are being forced to share an incubator at Gaza City’s al-Helou International Hospital as rising cases of acute malnutrition overwhelm the wards. Doctors say hospitals are running out of space amid Israel's man-made famine.
serious l i t e r a l Nazi shit
In horrible news Maha’s oldest son Sanad who is only 13 went to the American aid site today and was shot in the stomach and died
It is impolite and unprofessional to NOT talk about the genocide in our social and work spheres. And let's also note that some radar manufacturers also make military radars and benefit from a healthy (murderous) military-industrial complex that grinds civilians to dust. It is a horror. It is us.
and the prior long decades of occupation and apartheid. Armed conflict cannot be a blind spot of scientists who purport to care about society. If we do care, we must use our full vocabulary, and make no exceptions for the 'wrong' types of people. Thanks #ams41radar for having the hard convo with me.
I got to present my research on radar access in Palestine (ams.confex.com/ams/41Radar/...) at the #AMS41Radar conference @ams41radar.bsky.social this week, and to be a panelist for Tuesday's Radar4All panel discussion. We must talk about Palestinian radar access in the context of the genocide --
So many pictures of murdered and maimed children. So many. But also there was a beloved music teacher, Elham Farah, shot in the leg by a sniper to use as bait, then run over by a tank, in November 2023. A beloved old woman. A teacher.
www.instagram.com/reel/DN1YW3k...
Palestinian journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa was killed in a live-broadcasted Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, along with four of her colleagues. In a letter to her son, Mariam wrote: “You are my love, my strength and my pride.”
Is there a slower death? Can you imagine the anguish of whichever surviving relatives tried to keep them alive?
Two more children starved to death in Gaza today
Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.
It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war. It is a famine on all of our watch. Everyone owns this. The Gaza famine is the world’s famine.”
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
'Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.'
"Since the Health Ministry only counts recovered bodies, every single unrecovered body is also uncounted." "The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
"The children were eerily listless; they did not run, shout or even swat the flies off their faces. Their tiny, frail frames made many appear years younger than they were. Near the head of the line, Kaltum Mohammad clutched her two-year-old daughter, Fatima, who weighed just 16 pounds."
Every single day dozens of lights like these go out for absolutely no good reason—for the worst reasons!—and life just goes on in the rest of the world like this is perfectly normal. Well I will never move on from this, and I won’t let the people who supported it move on, either.
The former head of Israel's military intelligence just praised the deaths of innocents as "necessary...as a message for future generations." If we do nothing, we will have to tell our children that we stood idly by as millions of people were sent to their graves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This is fucking appalling. It’s collective punishment, it’s incitement to genocide, and the US needs to stop funding it. I stand with the millions of Gazans under siege and the hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting against the manmade horrors plaguing Gaza.
"A 20-year-old Palestinian woman suffering from severe malnutrition who was evacuated from #Gaza to Italy this week has died... ...Marah Abu Zuhri, arrived in Pisa on an Italian government humanitarian flight on Wednesday night." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #BDS #Israel #News #Palestine
#Breaking: Doctors Without Borders joins 100 organizations demanding an end to the weaponization of aid and immediate and unconditional opening of all land crossings for the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian aid. Read the full statement: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-israel-...
Over 100 Groups Condemn Israel’s ‘Weaponization of Aid’ in #Gaza #GHF #GHFmassacres qudsnen.co/over-100-gro...
EXCLUSIVE: 100+ Doctors Who Worked in Gaza Demand Global Action as 'Colleagues Are Starved and Shot by Israel' Palestinian health workers 'suffer from hunger, dizziness and fainting episodes while performing operations,' reads the doctors' open letter. Read here: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
- UNOCHA: more than 60 people, primarily women and children, died of malnutrition in a single week in besieged Elfashir. #KeepEyesOnSudan
Anas Al-Sharif’s final live broadcast before he was assassinated was about Israel’s forced starvation of infants in Gaza City. In the past 24 hours, five more people have been starved to death. Israel is starving Gaza and targeting journalists who report on it.
Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
Ms. Rachel: “How did it get to this point…I feel like I’m in a nightmare where I’m explaining not to kill thousands of children.”
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.
