"Under the banner of diversity, we are told to bring ourselves and our perspectives. But, if we bring too much of them, we are marked and kept back." For @walrusmagazine, I wrote about my decade in journalism and the cost of being The Only One In The Room. thewalrus.ca/objectivity-is-…

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

🇺🇸 🇵🇸 Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American citizen and honors psychology student at Birzeit University, remains in Israeli detention after soldiers seized her from her family’s home near Ramallah at 3 a.m. on June 2, with lawmakers warning her life is at risk. Safi, whose family lives in Florida, was taken without charge and transferred to Ofer prison, then to the Moscovia interrogation center in Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. Her family says she has a chronic condition that causes fevers up to 105°F and requires daily medication and a quarterly injection she travels abroad to receive. She was one of five Palestinian women detained that week, including two members of the Palestinian women’s national football team. The Israeli military said the women were suspected of “promoting terrorist activities.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Sen. Chris Van Hollen have both demanded her release. “I am really sick and tired of the Israeli government taking American taxpayer dollars and then mistreating Americans,” Van Hollen said. Israel has not told her family or the U.S. embassy where she is being held. Rep. Tlaib said, “Her life is at risk—our government must free her now!”

He has shown tremendous grace throughout this but my heart breaks for him. He was born in the midst of war and rose to the top of his field despite every possible disadvantage. Only to have the biggest moment of his career become a humiliating ordeal!

He had everything. But when he landed in Miami, he was forced to spend 11 hours in a tiny room overnight where border agents grilled him with questions about Somalia and terrorism. He was then kept in a cell before he was effectively deported without explanation

but for entry into Western states period, with Somalia among a small number of countries whose citizens are subject to additional travel restrictions. He had to travel to another country, Kenya, simply to secure the appropriate travel documents, a valid visa to work in the US

I don't think most people are fully grasping what happened to Omar Artan. Citizens of African countries cannot travel to the US without first navigating a highly restrictive, discriminatory visa process. Africans face the highest refusal rates globally, not only for US visas

“Canadaland brands itself as Canada's media accountability outlet … The court's findings describe an outlet that republished a known false claim, ignored documents in its own possession that disproved it, and never asked its subject to respond.”

RT @DavideMastracci: “Canadaland Inc. and its founder Jesse Brown will pay a total of $885,000 in damages and costs to Theresa Kielburger […

Afghanistan faces a fragile and uncertain future as worsening humanitarian conditions, restrictions on women and girls, and mounting economic pressures deepen the crisis. UN officials warn of a potential “lost generation of talent and potential”. news.un.org/en/story/2026/06…

🏀 The New York Knicks went up 2-0 in the NBA Finals with a victory Friday night, putting them just two wins away from their first NBA title in 53 years. The team is playing with the UAE government-backed “Experience Abu Dhabi” logo stitched onto its jerseys under a sponsorship deal worth around $30 million per year. Rep. Jim McGovern (MA) says, “Fans should know that the sport they are enjoying is fueling crimes against humanity. They should know that the NBA is investing in the UAE, and the UAE is investing in atrocities in Sudan.” The Knicks are the NBA’s only individual franchise with a direct sponsorship arrangement of this kind with the UAE. The broader NBA-UAE partnership is estimated to generate roughly $500 million in advertising revenue. 🎥 Video: @RefugeesIntl

Congratulations to Salmaan Khan & colleagues at York U's Islamophobia Research Hub for this path-breaking new report on 'Working While Muslim': yorku.ca/laps/research/islam…. Very important step forward in understanding and measuring the barriers to decent employment for Muslim Cdns /2

Yazdani “alleges that she was terminated because the company’s new management found that her ‘long-standing reporting style was inappropriate, unnecessarily confrontational with politicians, and violated Rogers’ journalistic standards.’” torontolife.com/city/tina-ya…

Good to see the Israel supreme court ordering Red Cross visits to the 9,000-plus Palestinians held as security prisoners. If Netanyahu thinks that reports of rape of prisoners are false, he should welcome investigation and exoneration by the RedCross. nytimes.com/2026/06/03/world…

🎓 “Peace be upon you. From the students of Harvard, to the youth of Dahieh, to the sons of Nabatieh, and the people of Tyre.” Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzeddine, from the southern Lebanese town of Arabsalim, used her graduation speech to remind her peers of the students in Gaza and southern Lebanon who do not benefit from the same “arbitrary luck and circumstance” that she and her classmates have enjoyed. Ezzeddine said her presence at that podium was “evidence of what survives the border, the bomb, and the exile,” and of “what becomes possible when people the world has tried to erase are allowed to live.”

RT @gazanotice: 🚨BREAKING: A Palestinian girl in Gaza wore her orange Eid dress, waiting to celebrate Eid al-Adha with her family. Minutes…

RT @OmerOsman200: Toronto Tempo's Nyara Sabally, who is Muslim, dropped a new career high 29 points, to go along with 6 rebounds, 2 assists…

There are multiple reasons why Sudan is the world's worst human crisis today, multiple bad actors. But the UAE is one of the worst, with its support for the brutal RSF militia committing mass murder and mass rape. Pres. Trump, having taken $500m from the UAE, is silent about it.

Hāhona Ormsby, a New Zealand citizen and Gaza flotilla activist, said an Israeli soldier detaining him told him: “I’m a crazy MF. I’m going to hurt you every minute you’re with me.” Over roughly two hours, he said the soldier largely kept that promise: punching him repeatedly, knocking him unconscious, and running his head into a wall during a strip search. Ormsby said the soldier approached him naked with a taser, stating he would taser his genitals. A second man, not in uniform, intervened, before the soldier struck him in the genitals instead. Ormsby said he was urinating blood that night. He also described having his cable-tied hands placed over a chair while the soldier punched him in the stomach and kneed him in the back, aggravating a prior spinal fusion injury. Source: @NZStuff on IG (link in reply).

"The promise of freedom and survival is a mirage which always disappears when I reach for it." Honour to publish this heartrending piece by @AbubakerAbedW on the pain of life outside Gaza He is one of the finest writers of his generation. Read it all👇 palestinedeepdive.com/p/surv…

It's really been hard to write my thoughts on my first year out of Gaza. But here is my reflection, as I've realised that survival outside Gaza was a lie & now I have to fight a mental occupation and emotional death in the West. ✍️Debut for @PDeepDive palestinedeepdive.com/p/surv…