Law Professor, University of Toronto. IP law, Competition law, Israel/Palestine and the Law.

Toronto, ON
Joined January 2010
Ariel Katz retweeted
My statement on the deadline for bids for the E1 settlement tender ⬇️
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Ariel Katz retweeted
All you need to know: 500 words. Zero arrests.
The IDF strongly condemns the severe act of violence that took place in the area of Taybeh, during which diplomatic representatives were attacked by Israeli rioters. Police forces and forensic investigators from the Judea and Samaria District are entering the area accompanied by IDF soldiers and will begin collecting findings and evidence, as well as taking testimonies, in support of an investigation that has been opened. The consulate's visit was not coordinated with the IDF. Such coordination is important to prevent incidents of this kind. According to a preliminary inquiry, no IDF soldiers were present at the scene at the time of the attack. The report was sent to the brigade operations room, which is designated to receive reports from security personnel only, and not from civilians. The operations room receives dozens of operational reports each day and responds only to authorized personnel, not civilians. It should be emphasized that other designated channels are available for civilians to submit complaints. All circumstances surrounding the incident will be examined.
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Ariel Katz retweeted
🚨🚨 happening now: Israeli soldiers are surrounding a Palestinian family in Beit Furik, while an Israeli soldier threatens to open fire on them if they move as they harvest olives.
Israel has deliberately transformed the Palestinian olive harvest into a war zone, where occupation soldiers and settlers wage an organized campaign of terror against Palestinian farmers on their own land. And the world continues to turn a blind eye.
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It is with a heart full of grief that I mourn the passing @ori_goldberg. I lost a friend, a colleague, a brother. I want to tell you about the Ori I knew, how he touched our lives, how he chose to join @Kulna_co while battling stage 4 cancer, and the work we never got to finish
Hello, this is Avigail, Ori’s eldest daughter. I’m sorry to tell you that my dad passed away tonight, after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 50 years old.
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إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون I loved you, Ori, and I always will love you And we know you loved us too We will not stop fighting for what you loved We fight for everyone, nobody gets left behind We're not free until we're all free We're not safe until we're all safe
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The Israeli government is so desperate to try to prevent people from watching Naza that they had to create a propoganda film using the same name and a duplicitous url to confuse people. It reeks of desperation.
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Ariel Katz retweeted
With Bill C-39, the Carney government is asking workers to treat their bargaining power as a national liability while treating corporate access to uninterrupted profits and supply chains as the “national interest.” theconversation.com/canadas-… #canlab #cdnpoli
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This isn't going to go the way you think, Anthony. Calling Anti-Zionism antisemitism won't stop people from being anti-Zionist, it will just make people think antisemitism isn't serious. We have repeatedly warned you of the danger to Jews in tying us to Israel, yet you persist.
An important document. It lists the actions the federal government & our partners have taken to combat antisemitism & sets out next steps. Also it makes clear the Canadian government recognizes that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs…
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חזק ועצוב.
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In a joint statement, CMPAC along with community and civil society organizations, faith leaders, academics, and concerned citizens called on the University of Toronto to take accountability for the rhetoric platformed at its September 15 conference. The statement was signed by 80 organizations and individual signatories. The joint statement raises concerns about Islamophobic and antisemitic rhetoric platformed at the conference, including the collective targeting of Muslims and anti-Zionist Jews. It calls on UofT President Melanie Woodin to publicly apologize, explain why she opened the conference and what institutional standards were applied, disclose UofT’s administrative and facilities support for the event, and meet directly with affected students and communities. canadianmuslimpac.ca/2026/09…
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I listened to a bunch of Yom Kippur sermons at the most mainstream Jewish synagogues. The recurring themes were "save Israel's democracy" and "Israel as a democracy." Those who were touched by this emotional plea should really tune in to the news from
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“Absolutely secret.” That is how a university official was reportedly told to keep part of an update about coordination around pro-Palestinian encampments. My latest looks at what was happening behind the scenes at Canadian universities while students were protesting in public: information sharing, police involvement, social-media monitoring, risk assessments and even reported use of facial-recognition technology. Universities can and should deal with genuine safety concerns. But when did student protest become a security and intelligence problem? And this isn't just about Palestine. Once these tools and precedents are normalized, they won't necessarily stay there. My latest in the @WRMEA -- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: Behind Closed Doors: What Secret University Networks Reveal About the Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity -- wrmea.org/north-america/behi…
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Ariel Katz retweeted
The @Sydney_Uni is facing an alumni revolt over Israel. More than 450 graduates and staff, including a deputy vice-chancellor and Australian AM and OAM recipients, signed a letter demanding a rare Convocation meeting (the first in over three decades) to discuss the university's ties to Israel and free speech on campus. The signatories accuse the university of a "profound moral failure" over Gaza and a "suppression of dissent" on campus. deepcutnews.com/p/alumni-rev…
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