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Hello Kitty & friends dabke!

أشد على أياديكم / وأبوس الأرض تحت نعالكم / أهديكم ضياء عيني ودفىء القلب أعطيكم

I take your hand and I hold it tightly / I kiss the earth beneath your feet / I give you the light from my eyes and the warmth of my heart.

The AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) has abruptly fired Wanda Nanibush, their curator of Indigenous Art, with a leaked letter citing that the complaint against her was her "dedication to repeating that Israel is involved with genocide and colonialism"

The organization making a complaint against her is the Toronto-based organization, Israel Museum and Arts, Canada. They say that their request was for Nanibush to take sensitivity training and retract her comments, rather than for her to be removed from her position. The AGO says that it was a mutual decision between them and Nanibush to end her employment there - Nanibush has declined to comment. She joined the AGO in 2016 as its first curator of Indigenous Art.

The extent of Nanibush's commentary on Palestine and Israel seems to be some social media posts, which are now deleted, and a 2016 article she wrote where she linked Canadian colonization to the experience of Palestinians under Israel.

Interestingly enough, the other articles from that magazine issue are all accessible online, but hers isn't - I don't know if it was taken down recently or not.