For immediate release: A Statement from Professors at McGill who Support the Boycott and Proposed a Resolution to their Faculty Association, MAUT On Friday, October 10, 2025, McGill professors and librarians voted in favour of a historic resolution to endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel at a Special General Meeting of the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT). An  overwhelming majority of the professors and librarians who are members of MAUT expressed that they fully endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. As a quorum was met, this resolution is now binding. In joining the academic and cultural boycott of Israel, MAUT joins at least twenty other academic associations in Canadathat have passed similar resolutions, as well as countless others around the world. We are now participating in the long history of boycott and divestment at McGill, which among other examples, was the first university in Canada to fully divest from apartheid South Africa–a fact stated proudly on our university website. With this vote, the professors and librarians of McGill have taken a strong stand against the genocide in Gaza. By pledging our support for the boycott of Israeli institutions, MAUT members stand in solidarity with Palestinian colleagues who have called for this boycott for more than twenty years. In doing so, we also honour those colleagues and others murdered during this genocide. The adoption of the resolution to boycott Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people shows that McGill professors and librarians will not stand by idly as Israel murders and abducts our colleagues in healthcare, libraries, and universities. MAUT members condemn the destruction of the health system, the total obliteration of academic institutions, the theft and destruction of cultural heritage, and the systematic scholasticide, one element of the genocide that the State of Israel is waging against the Palestinian people. Our resolution states that we: “call upon McGill’s administration to take all necessary steps to implement the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, while ensuring that the boycott applies to institutional partnerships and agreements, not individual Israeli academics.” The support of this resolution by professors and librarians at McGill represents the will of a large and growing number of people who are standing up for an end to the genocide in Palestine, an end to the occupation, along with an end to McGill University’s complicity. McGill professors and librarians vow to keep working within all of our professional associations and unions to hold our complicit academic and cultural institutions accountable.
Israel insists one of the corpses it received from the Gaza Strip yesterday is not one of its own. Its DNA matches neither a soldier brutally kidnapped from a tank nor any other captive known to Israel. Hamas insists the body was seized, in military uniform, in Jabaliya in May 2024. Some have speculated it could be the body of a foreign mercenary or collaborator. My guess is that it is the corpse of a Palestinian. Not of a collaborator but one of the numerous human shields forcibly conscripted by the Israeli military.
Excellent article by Patrick Cockburn: For two years, Gaza became a theatre of cruelty in which the horrified audience was the rest of the world. As Israeli airstrikes pounded the homes, hospitals and schools of Gaza into rubble, they also pounded sympathy and support for Israel. Today, polls show that more Americans support the Palestinian people than they do the Israeli government. This week some 38 percent of Britons told YouGov they feel more sympathy for the Palestinians, whereas 12 per cent have more for Israel. Yet Israeli failure goes far beyond international obloquy and isolation. As in past wars with the Palestinians, Israel showed great tactical military expertise combined with self-defeating political blindness, deluding itself that long term success can be won by force alone: Israelis must have 100 per cent security, even if this means 100 percent insecurity for Palestinians. The only possible relationship it would consider between the seven million Palestinians and seven million Israeli Jews living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is what Human Rights Watch calls apartheid, or expulsion. The very great superiority of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) became a liability because it tempted Israelis into convincing themselves that all problems with others can be solved by military means – though this approach has a track record of bloody failure stretching back three quarters of a century. Israel put great resources into propaganda at home and abroad, but then made the huge mistake of believing too much of it itself. All opponents are demonised as deadly enemies to be physically eliminated. Once this demon was the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) while today it is Hamas, yet if the latter vanished tomorrow it would inevitably be replaced by some other Palestinian movement. In conscious or unconscious recognition of this fact, Israel’s attack on Gaza was from the beginning a merciless assault on all its 2.4 million Palestinians inhabitants. In the six months since Netanyahu broke the ceasefire on 18 March, a detailed report by the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) reveals that nearly 15 out of every 16 Palestinians killed in Gaza was a civilian.
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Trump is the only winner of the Israel-Gaza war
Netanyahu has deluded himself and deluded Israel
After slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, including approximately 20,000 children, and celebrating every one of those deaths as if they won the lottery, Israel groupies continue to insist that what separates the genocidal apartheid regime from those it slaughtered with such glee is that "we value life".
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have formally rejected Project Blair. Other Palestinian factions can be presumed to share this position. The Palestinian Authority, which has formally accepted the Trump proposal without reservations, doesn't support Blair's installation as colonial viceroy, seeking his role for itself. Additionally, those of its leaders who have dealt with Blair previously thoroughly detest him on a personal level. This means Project Blair can only be imposed by armed force. The only military with the resources in place to do so is Israel. Yet Israel is not particularly committed to its great British champion's pet project, and is unlikely to seek or obtain US permission for a full-scale occupation of the Gaza Strip to enable it. Or succeed if it does. It looks like the Blair Witch Project is dead in the water.
It has been suggested that Hamas almost immediately offered to release all the captives it seized on 7 October 2023, and that if Israel had accepted this initiative the Gaza Genocide could have been prevented. This is incorrect in several respects. 1. Hamas on 8 October offered to release all the civilian hostages then being held in the Gaza Strip, in exchange for an Israeli commitment not to invade the territory. It did not offer to also release the military and security captives it held, because like every other armed force throughout history it intended to release these in exchange for the release of its own captives held by Israel. The constant references to “hostages” has created the mistaken impression that all Israelis being held in the Gaza Strip were civilians. In fact, all remaining civilian hostages, as well as the remaining female military and security personnel taken captive on 7 October, were released early this year as part of the January 2025 ceasefire agreement. The remaining captives, scheduled for release in the coming days as part of a final exchange with Israel, are all military or security personnel. Israel of course rejected the offer, and also did not make any counteroffer, such as the inclusion of military captives in exchange for a commitment to not invade the Gaza Strip. 2. Even if Israel had accepted the offer, it would not have prevented the Gaza Genocide. Israel initiated the most intensive aerial and artillery bombardment of the twenty-first century on 7 October. This would not have been covered by any commitment to not invade the Gaza Strip, and would therefore have continued and probably intensified. The Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip did not commence until 27 October. Yet, October was one of the very bloodiest months of the Gaza Genocide. The toll, overwhelmingly consisting of civilian casualties, had very little to do with the ground invasion during the last several days of that month. This also explains Israel’s motivations for rejecting any proposal that would have prevented the ground invasion. Because it was never about the hostages and captives being held in the Gaza Strip. Israel was determined not only to perpetrate the Gaza Genocide, but also to raze the Gaza Strip to the ground so as to make it functionally uninhabitable. This required a ground invasion.
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Much of the information in this article has been circulating for years, particularly how Washington a decade ago bullied the United Nations into removing Israel from its blacklist of baby killers. It is nevertheless useful to have this all confirmed with documentation and collected in one article. The article below demonstrates how Israel has not one but at least two delegations at the United Nations, one of which is a permanent member of the Security Council. Yet Israel constantly whines about being singled out at the world body, even though - in contrast to numerous other states, including several in the Middle East - the UN has imposed precisely zero consequences upon Israel, even as it commits genocide. The article below also conclusively demonstrates, once again, that Samantha Power is what can only be described as a problem from hell. An opportunist of the worst sort, who poses as a champion of the victims of unrestrained power, yet weaponizes her reputation and the power placed at her disposal to promote the very worst and most depraved human rights violations, helped set the stage for the Gaza Genocide, and whose greatest achievement in life is ensuring total impunity for the most vile crimes perpetrated on her watch. She remains exceptionally proud of her record, and doubtlessly sleeps better at night than those whose lives have been permanently destroyed on account of her activism on behalf of unrestrained violence and power.
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Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show - The Grayzone
Behind closed doors, the noted ‘humanitarian interventionist’ successfully lobbied for Israel’s inclusion on important UN committees even aft...
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