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allthecanadianpolitics · 3 months

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Remember this genocide promotion event that sparked outrage amongst Concordia's students?

After they cancelled it due to overwhelming pressure from Concordia students, they reinstated the event but moved it off campus, and kept the event quiet while asking people to keep up with them so as to prevent anyone from disrupting the event. It is taking place today in Montreal at 7PM, and the location will be announced right before it begins. I will keep you all up to date on the announced location of the event.

The tickets website also asserts that the CJA Federation zionist lobby is part of this event.

I find it incredibly suspicious that a University club that has only existed since September 2023 has been in direct contact with zionist occupation soldiers since at least November 2023, and have their first event hosted by self-admitted child-killing zionist forces, and co-hosted by one of Canada's major zionist lobbies. Why is Concordia using a school club as a their own personal zionist lobby & genocide committing liaison?

Everyone in MTL needs to protest this event. Absolutely nothing about it is acceptable.

#cdnpoli #Montreal #Québec #Concordia University #Foreign Policy #zionist occupation of Palestine #posted by Hussein

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eretzyisrael · 2 months

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by Dion J. Pierre

Jewish students at Concordia University in Montreal must fend for themselves when their anti-Zionist classmates resort to assault and harassment on campus, according to students who spoke with The Algemeiner.

No single incident, they said, evinced their alleged abandonment by school officials more than one on March 12 in which Jewish students were trapped in the school’s Hillel office while members of the anti-Zionist club Supporting Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), concealing their faces with keffiyehs and surgical masks, banged on its windows and doors and stomped on the floor of the room above it.

“It’s usually just a safe place for Jewish people to come and hang out,” Chana Leah Natanblut, president of Chabad Concordia, said of the Hillel office. “We were all doing our work and chilling, and all of a sudden we started hearing chanting, like screaming and stuff. We thought maybe it had something with the student strike going on, but then we started hearing people scream terrorists and banging on the ceiling. The Supporting Palestinian Human Rights club is directly above us.”

Seeking the source of the din exploding around them, Natanblut and her friends walked to the window, where they saw a crush of SPHR activists, some standing on the fire escape outside of it, others standing in the parking lot below.

“B—ch!” “Dog!” “Zionism is terrorism!” they screamed, while the person on the fire escape whacked away at the window. The rioters came from “all sides,” Natanblut explained, sprinting through the hallways to hammer the walls outside the club and setting off what felt like seismic shocks that shook the room. Amid the clatter, Natanblut noticed that a shopping bag hooked on a wall mount behind the door was swinging like a pendulum, as if to count down the time they had left before the worst occurred.

“We immediately locked the window and made sure that the door to the room was locked,” Natanblut continued. “We really felt trapped, and I couldn’t even leave to use the bathroom. I was wondering how would I get out and if I would be attacked if I did. So, I started to videotape what was going on, and I called my friend, the person in charged of advocacy for Hillel, telling him to come right away. Then I called security.”

Security arrived promptly, Natanblut said, and reprimanded the SPHR rioters. However, to Natanblut’s astonishment, they refused to discipline those involved in the disturbance on the grounds that Jewish students had contributed to instigating the incident.

According to Natanblut, the SPHR students told the officers that they behaved as they did because the Jewish students had filmed them. To no avail, Natanblut and her friends explained that they only began recording after the banging and screaming started and that they had all been minding their own business. Declining to privilege one account of what happened over the other, security took their statements and left, refusing to answer questions about next steps, including whether the rioters would be allowed back in the building.

“We only filmed because they were harassing us, for evidence, and we didn’t feel safe,” Natanblut said. “Security obviously told them to disperse and that they couldn’t act that way, but they didn’t say what would happen and it felt almost as if they had taken their side. Who’s to say they won’t do it again? What kind of message does it send to do nothing about it?”

Similar occurrences are the new normal for Jewish students attending Concordia University, Anastasia Zorchinsky, founder and president of The StartUp Nation, a pro-Israel club, told The Algemeiner. On Nov. 8, for example, just over a month after Hamas’ massacre across southern Israel, anti-Zionist protesters approached Jewish students and punched several in the face. No one was punished for these offenses, she explained, and the university has had the habit of refusing to denounce antisemitism as a stand-alone problem, always being sure to mention Islamophobia as well to insinuate that Jewish students are engaging in hateful behavior themselves. With several large anti-Zionist events coming up later this month and in April, she fears Jewish students will be targeted again and denied justice.

“The university must enforce its policies, which it’s not doing,” Zorchinsky said. “There’s a clear double standard when it comes to violence against Jewish students, and there must be investigations of these students and expulsions of any found to have committed antisemitic violence. We don’t need pro-Hamas students on our campus behaving this way. We don’t need students who support terrorism on campus. They’re a danger to everyone. Not just us.”

Concordia University did not respond to The Algemeiner‘s request for comment for this story.

#concordia university #jewish students #antisemitism #harassment #chabad concordia

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aeolianblues · 26 days

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Also, from one campus radio station volunteer to all the other ones, exceptionally braver than me, putting themselves on the frontlines, broadcasting straight from the protests, getting themselves barricaded into their broadcasting booths overnight and continuing to be the only people bringing you live and on-the-ground coverage of the protests, I love you all.

CKUT, having covered the die-ins, coming live from the protests grounds at McGill, you have all my strength and love.

CJLO, for righting the disappointment we all felt in Concordia after earlier this year, thank you for your coverage of the Concordia protests, and supporting CKUT's coverage in Montreal.

WKCR, bravest of them all, putting themselves on the frontlines and bringing extraordinary coverage from Columbia. You are true journalists.

They're the future of journalism.

(A note about why some of these posts are coming from '[station]music' accounts: Meta, in retaliation to a demand from the Canadian govt to pay royalties for using news on their site (Bill C-18), decided to ban all news for Canadian accounts on IG and FB altogether. Of course, this did not touch commercial radio stations that simply play the same 5 songs over and over their breakfast shows, but every single campus radio station is now blocked in Canada, completely killing their reach especially to a younger, student audience. Many have made new accounts to continue posting about the non-news shows on air. There's never been a more important time to directly go to their websites for updates, and hell why not, throw them some donations if you can. They're the ones doing the good work in this time of need!)

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catdotjpeg · 28 days

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Students and allies held an emergency protest today to support the encampment for Gaza at McGill University in Montreal, QC against agitators. The encampment, which participants are referring to as the Montreal Popular University of Gaza, has been going strong for six days with participants holding prayer services, book readings, teach-ins, and film screenings.

Notably, the Kanienkehaka Traditional Council wrote a letter showing their support and granting “the full right to those who are occupying McGill and other campuses throughout Turtle Island to be upon the said lands, with the expressed intent of engaging their administrations to divest from the colonial genocide of israel upon the Palestinian People and from the war machine in general.”

The demands are as follows:

1. Disclose! We demand full financial transparency from the Concordia Investments Committee and the Board of Governors to disclose all investments in companies complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people. 2. Divest: We demand that Concordia and McGill universities divest from all complicit companies and cut all academic ties with israeli institutions. 3. Defend: No repercussions or disciplinary charges for any actions taken by students of McGill and Concordia university in support of Palestine. Pending disciplinary charges against students related to support for Palestine activism will be dropped. 4. Declare: We demand that McGill and Concordia universities publish a statement immediately condemning the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and calling on the Canadian government to immediately cease all military contracts with the Zionist state.

#palestine #canada #quebec #montreal #mcgill university #concordia university #youth activism

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animblog · 6 months

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#Post #Lukas Conway #2021 #oiaf #stop motion #stamps #mail #history #canadian #sound design #student film #concordia university #Vimeo #animation

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hundchentanque · 8 months

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Listening to the Donkey Kong Country Returns soundtrack while formulating a short paper about Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an experience.

#hundpost #concordia university #sociology #donkey kong #donkey kong country #student life

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materialsscienceandengineering · 2 years

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Most 3D printing methods currently in use rely either on photo (light)- or thermo (heat)-activated reactions to achieve precise manipulation of polymers. The development of a new platform technology called direct sound printing (DSP), which uses soundwaves to produce new objects, may offer a third option.

The process is described in a paper published in Nature Communications. It shows how focused ultrasound waves can be used to create sonochemical reactions in minuscule cavitation regions -- essentially tiny bubbles. Extremes of temperature and pressure lasting trillionths of a second can generate pre-designed complex geometries that cannot be made with existing techniques.

"Ultrasonic frequencies are already being used in destructive procedures like laser ablation of tissues and tumours. We wanted to use them to create something," says Muthukumaran Packirisamy, a professor and Concordia Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. He is the paper's corresponding author.

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atthenunnery · 9 months

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I love college (Aug. 30, 2010)

I posted this on my 18th birthday, just a few short days after moving into Concordia University’s Grey Nuns Residence. I didn’t know anyone there really, but in two days I managed to meet a bunch of fellow students and make friends, and I could already tell I’d be getting into some serious shenanigans, sitcom style. And this was the beginning of what I do best: make friends by drawing them.

Here are the prototypes for Akerman and Kyle, and our friend and Arca’s (Akerman’s model) neighbor across the hall, Hannah (she sadly didn’t make the ATN cut but she was definitely around a lot, and really cool).

#akerman #kyle #atn #gallery #concordia university #grey nuns residence

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siaimmigrationsolutionsinc · 8 months

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allthecanadianpolitics · 3 months

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On March 4th, Concordia University is planning an event with their zionist lobby known as 'StartUp Nation' (the link in the video doesn't exist). This lobby was created on September 2023 according to their LinkedIn page, and its sole purpose is to 'bring Israel to campus' as they put it. During this stated event on March 4th, they will be bringing zionist occupation soldiers, yes the very same ones committing genocide right now, for a propaganda event. For a taste of what that will look like, from Aby Volco a self-admitted child killer:

Beyond the fact it's horrific that Concordia is inviting genocide-doers onto campus, it is doubly a problem as Concordia has a sizeable Palestinian student body, an even bigger Arab student body, and an even bigger Muslim one. This is an active threat to Concordia's students. If you're a Concordia student or not, you can email the faculty at the Concordia Uni, just send me an inbox message @el-shab-hussein and I'll send you a template depending on whether you're a ConU student or not. I will only exchange inbox messages privately for your privacy.

#cdnpoli #Concordia University #Montreal #Québec #StartUp Nation #zionism #Foreign Policy #zionist occupation of Palestine #genocide #ethnic cleansing #child death #propaganda #dehumanization

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eretzyisrael · 2 years

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Several months later, in early 2002, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights activists helped instigate a protest-turned-riot that shut down a scheduled speech at Concordia by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The incident was reported internationally, badly tarnishing the university’s reputation, and sparking a backlash against the student union, whose leaders were accused of letting their anti-Israeli vitriol cross the line into outright antisemitism. I was in Montreal at the time, covering the event for Canada’s National Post newspaper. As I described in my reporting, the riot really did seem like a hatefest directed at the school’s “Zionist” community:

[A] crowd [was] chanting Arabic slogans outside the entrance to Concordia’s Hall Building. As soon as they learned we were with the Post—‘Zionist-owned’ as several described it—they grew hostile. At one point, I tried to penetrate to the middle of the rabble to interview the organizers … I was rebuffed, and found myself scrambling back through a knot of students kicking at me while screaming ‘Palestinian checkpoint.’ Like others, I was sprayed with ketchup from a plastic bottle—a symbol, apparently, of Palestinian blood.

One might imagine that these developments would have career-limiting implications for Marouf, a Syrian citizen whose father had been sent to Montreal on diplomatic assignment by Hafez al-Assad’s regime. Yet Marouf somehow managed to scratch out a Canadian career as a community activist, equity officer, radio host, and, most recently, government-bankrolled anti-racism consultant—all without making any effort to hide his antisemitic views. As well as posting hateful comments on social media, he’s also become a regular on Russian and Iranian propaganda outlets, spouting conspiracy theories about Israel, the war in Ukraine, and the Zionist machinations of the international media.

In an era when people can get fired for clicking the like button on a problematic social-media post or using the wrong pronoun, this out-and-proud hatemonger has—until just days ago—maintained his entree with Canadian broadcast regulators, even while tweeting that “there are none on this earth more cunty than Zionists”; describing his desire to beat up “ugly inbred fucking Zionist Colonist tourists”; rhapsodizing about the coming liberation of Palestine, when “all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists … will return to being low-voiced bitches of their Christian/Secular white supremacist masters”; and describing his personal “motto” as being that “Life is too short for shoes with laces, or for entertaining Jewish white supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.”

In regard to the 2002 Concordia riot, Marouf recently tweeted, “At least we broke a window when they claimed Kirstallnacht.” He also called Colin Powell “the Jamaican house-slave of the Empire,” dismissed Canada’s Francophone population as “frogs,” and celebrated the outcome of a Beirut bombing that, he crowed, turned French soldiers into “bags of minced meat.” During a recent trip to Washington, DC, Marouf took a selfie at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which he tweeted along with the wish that the memorial were “much bigger, with the names of a few million dead corpses of [American] dirtbags.”

That last tweet is especially notable because he posted it just last month, by which time he’d already launched his aforementioned government-financed anti-racism tour, which he billed as “Building an Anti-Racism Strategy for Canadian Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence.” The full slate of events was to include regional gatherings in Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, Calgary, and Winnipeg, “culminating in a national conference to be held at Carleton University in Ottawa.” The April 14th, 2022 press release announcing the tour was published under the name of the formal grant recipient—the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), a company composed of Marouf and his wife. It contained lengthy quotes from two men: Marouf himself, and Ahmed Hussen, Trudeau’s Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, who pronounced Marouf’s travelling anti-racism road show to be a “timely intervention with the potential to shape how Racialized Canadians experience the media space.”

#systemic racism #laith marouf #racism #antiracism #antisemitism #canada #concordia university

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athleticperfection1 · 3 months

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