Isam Faik

Technology's impact widens, but not everyone can catch up. New research from #IveyBusiness Professor @IsamFaik reveals that unlocking a more digitally inclusive world is possible through a shift in mindset. Learn more: ivey.uwo.ca/impact/read/20… #IveyImpact #DigitalDivide

New issue of @MISQuarterly is out. Has some very nice papers! misq.umn.edu/current/

This is the second report I've seen of someone starving to death in Gaza since Israel began its complete siege. There's going to be a whole lot more of this unless something big changes soon.

Ex-ambassador Craig Murray: 'The world has been jolted, suddenly. Masks have been ripped off. Almost the entire political Establishment of the West have outed themselves as enthusiastic proponents of a racial supremacism, prepared to give active assistance to a genocide of indigenous people.' As Murray also notes: 'Every single state in the world has a positive duty to intervene to prevent the Genocide in Gaza now' by invoking the Genocide Convention – even before an international court has had time to officially determine that a genocide is being carried out. This was made clear in a judgment by the International Court of Justice in 2007 regarding Bosnia and Serbia. craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/…

If The Pro-Israel Position Was Based On Truth And Morality, It Wouldn’t Depend On Lies And Slander If your position is based on truth and morality, you don’t need to make up lies to defend it, and you don’t need to hurl false accusations at those who disagree with it. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t need to circulate bogus atrocity propaganda about decapitated babies, babies cooked in ovens, and murdered pregnant women. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t have to circulate lies claiming actual dead Palestinian babies in Gaza are plastic dolls. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t have to falsely present phony audio clips as intercepted Hamas communications and claim they exonerate you of war crime allegations. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t have to circulate lies and propaganda about the hospitals you plan to attack being secret Hamas headquarters. If your position was based on truth and morality, your official government social media accounts wouldn’t have to keep deleting posts after getting caught circulating lie after lie. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t have to circulate amazingly cringey propaganda videos like Israeli children singing about how great it will be to destroy Gaza and Israeli women doing yoga over the pictures of Israeli hostages. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t find yourself engaged in bizarre mental contortions trying to pretend history began on October 7 while sweeping all the mountains of murder and abuse which led up to it under the carpet. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t have to keep pointing at something that happened months ago to defend what you’ve been doing in the present moment in all the days since. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t need to resort to hurling false accusations of anti-semitism at those who criticize your side instead of producing robust counter-arguments. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t need to resort to accusing those who disagree with you of supporting terrorism and serving Hamas instead of defending your position like a normal adult. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t need to lie and claim that longstanding pro-Palestine slogans are actually calls for the genocide of Jews to try and get them silenced. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn’t feel the need to censor and silence everyone who disagrees with you online, on college campuses, and on all platforms of major influence. If your position was based on truth and morality, you would get curious and do some self-examination when young people overwhelmingly reject that position instead of insisting that the young people are the problem and trying to kill TikTok and outlaw demonstrations. If your position was based on truth and morality you would be defending it with facts, logic and rational argumentation instead of vitriol, online troll mobs and incendiary false accusations. If your position is based in truth and morality, you can defend it in a truthful and moral way, instead of the exact opposite.

Saif, 14, was one of the youngest Palestinian captives released by Israel in the hostage exchange with Hamas last month. The freed child prisoner says they were kept in crowded rooms, cut off entirely from the outside world, and were forced to ration very little food and water.

The death rate in Gaza is at a historic high, with thousands of children killed in just a few weeks. Demanding an end to this inexcusable violence is a question of basic humanity. Silence is complicity. You cannot be silent in an unfolding genocide. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Israel blows up Gaza's "Palace of Justice" compound which housed the Palestinian Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Court of First Instance & the Magistrate. 100,000s of vital case documents are gone. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is a War Crime!

‘The lesson from Gaza is brutal and short: human rights are not universal and international law is arbitrarily applied.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Israel didn't even bother painting Gaza's Indonesian Hospital as a covert Hamas base, it just bombed it to oblivion, tortured its staff and left it strewn with rotting corpses This report is one of the most gut-wrenching documents I've seen of Israel's state terror

Tonight we attended a vigil held by @GazaMedicVoices to mourn healthcare workers who have been killed in Gaza. Survivors know they may die, but have stayed behind to care for their patients. They haven’t given up on the Palestinian people. Neither should we. Ceasefire now.

10,000 people have reportedly been killed since 7 October, according to #Gaza's Ministry of Health.
 10,000 people in one month.
 This defies humanity.

I am deeply concerned about clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in the Middle East. The protection of civilians must be paramount. They are #NotATarget. Nobody is above international humanitarian law.

Israel has destroyed and/or bombed every university in Gaza and bombed multiple hospitals, now including the pediatric oncology ward of Al-Rantisi. Meanwhile, a "senior security source" in the Israeli govt has claimed 20,000 – or 1% of Gaza's entire population – has been killed. But it's not enough for Israeli civil society: In the past week, 100 Israeli doctors, including pediatricians, have signed a letter urging more attacks on hospitals, while 50 Israeli rabbis have issued a letter giving halakhic approval to bomb medical facilities in Gaza. "the residents of Gaza" have "brought their annihilation upon themselves," the Israeli doctors proclaim.

These are Aya and Abood Moghari. Israel killed them today. Again, these are dangerous terrorists of Hamas.

Every morning I wake up and come on here to find someone trying to convince the world that killing innocents is sometimes, for some people, under some conditions, given some historical tragedies, fine. And every morning I wonder why it’s so hard to just say, erm... NO.

"4000+ children killed" does not capture the damage being done. The dead can rest in peace. The living are forever broken. There are 1.1 million children in Gaza who are traumatized forever. They could live until they're 100 years old and the trauma will never leave their bodies.

Special Rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council have published a statement saying that Israel's bombardment of the Jabalia refugee camp constitutes "a brazen violation of international law – and a war crime."