Apparently, I wasn’t “civilized” or “professional” enough when I publicly lamented on the institutional crackdown on free speech and wrote about an image of a young Palestinian girl my daughter’s age who’s head was blown off by an Israeli bomb in 2024, so my teaching contract was not renewed... at Sheridan College. The exact message was “your social media post went against the college’s code of civility and professionalism” for professors. Take this as a reminder that higher education institutions are colonial systems of oppression that use the same tactics of the colonizer. Don’t be too loud in your pain and rage when you watch your people getting slaughtered. And don’t complain publicly about HR discipline that feels discriminatory. Watch Black and brown people die, in a “civilized” manner please, and when we reprimand you about your advocacy, be institutionally oppressed more “professionally” please. If these “professional” institutions don’t care about 680,000+ dead Palestinian children, women, men, why should we suppress our freedom of thought and speech in order to protect Zionist “feelings” of discomfort? My message to these colonial institutions that claim moral and professional superiority: Take a moral stand against the genocide of oppressed occupied peoples, against colonial imperialist terrorism, and only then expect us to abide by your arbitrary institutional “moral values” and “professional” conduct rules.show more

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