Virtual Teach-Ins November 12 and 13
Tuesday November 12th
1. Lessons from The BDS and the Student Encampment Movement
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Panelists:
Norma Rantisi - Concordia University
Michelle Hartman - McGill University
Eman - University of Toronto
Sara Rasikh - University of Toronto
Moderator: Anya - University of Toronto
Description: This panel brings together student organizers and scholars to discuss the impact of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses, alongside the rise of student encampments as a form of protest for Palestine. Panelists will share insights from organizing within the BDS movement, examine the significance of encampments in pressuring institutions, and explore the challenges and possibilities these tactics offer for building sustained resistance.
2. Lawfare: Strategies and Lessons Learned
Time: 12:20 PM - 1:35 PM
Panelists: TBA
Description: Understanding law as a tool of colonial and imperial power, but one that we are often forced to engage with, this panel explores some of the recent legal gains and setbacks with respect to Palestine and Palestine solidarity activism. Panelists will discuss Israeli state reliance on lawfare, the deputization of pro-Israel lobby groups in the diaspora, activist interventions, and the mobilization of law to support Palestine solidarity.
3. Building Global Solidarity: Connecting struggles against settler-colonialism, Racism Genocide and Imperialism
Time: 1:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Panelists:
Harsha Walia - Activist and Author
Gary Kinsman - Activist and Author
Duha Elmardi - Sudanese Solidarity Collective
Description: Building global solidarity amidst the ongoing settler colonial violence and occupation of Indigenous lands and the ongoing genocide imperialism and destruction of Palestine and Sudan. Creating liveable futures.
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Poetry: Erica Violet Lee
Wednesday November 13th
4. Anti-Palestinian Racism, Islamaphobia, and the New Anti-Semitism
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Panelists:
Jasmin Zine - Wilfred Laurier
Dalia El Farra - Palestinian Canadian Activist
Sheryl Nestel - Independent Jewish Voices
Moderator: Alejandro Paz - University of Toronto
5. The Repression of Academic Freedom and the Criminalization of Dissent and free expression in support of Palestine on University Campuses
Time: 12:20 PM - 1:35 PM
Panelists:
Nahla Abdo - Concordia University
Sunera Thobani - University of British Columbia
Muhannad Ayyash - Mount Royal University,
Momodou Taal - Cornell University
Sara Rasikh - University of Toronto
David Robinson - CAUT
Moderator: Desmond Cole - Scholar Strike Canada
Description: This teach -in focuses on the ongoing threats, targeting, doxxing and criminalizing of academics and faculty who have spoken out, participated and organized protests on their campuses in support of Palestine, by their universities. What does academic freedom mean at this very moment as university institutions engage in the criminalization of dissent of those who speak up and protest against Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and the destruction of Palestine?