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    Reid Maltby 🇵🇸🍉 @rmaltby.bsky.social

    Bertrand Russell would be supporting calls to cancel the #DavisCup match in #Halifax featuring #Israel

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    Reid Maltby 🇵🇸🍉 @rmaltby.bsky.social

    "The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate." Bertrand Russell, 1970. And 1970 was before October 7th.

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    Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social

    Canadian Olympic silver medalist runner Moh Ahmed's poem in response to the claim that we are a "small mob of extremists" for opposing genocide via the demand for athletic boycott of Israel

    Who Is Extreme? 1/7 Who is extreme? Those calling for an end to the chaos— or the staunch defenders Of war, Of famine, Of starvation, Of bodies buried beneath rubble, wailing women, and the cries of children? 2/7 Who is extreme— the ones fueling a ceaseless cycle of violence and oppression, or those demanding it stop?3/7 Is it extreme to call out stolen lands, perpetual statelessness, a people occupied and erased for more than seven decades? What is truly extreme— to accept this status quo as natural? Or to call for peace, freedom, and a just end for all? 4/7 Who is extreme? Those who cannot name their own bias— or the scholars, the historians, the learned— who’ve devoted lifetimes to studying human suffering, so as to not repeat it? 5/7 Who is extreme? Those unconsciously fueling an uneven conflict, pouring gasoline on the fire— and shushing us away?6/7 Is it extreme to call people to not turn a blind eye? To resist silencing, to seek truth, to demand clarity, To be informed, to feel? 7/7 No. What’s extreme is not the outcry. What’s extreme is the silence. The indifference. The normalization of suffering. — So who— and what— is extreme?
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    Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social

    “Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

    • 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …
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