Hello #Mastodon! Moving to a new server, so here's my #introduction.
I'm a technologist, urban planner, and a #PhD student based in #Toronto, with #Luddite tendencies. I research municipal climate action plans and the role of computational modelling in shaping them. Particularly of the emancipatory potnetial of modelling.
I also think and write about #anticapitalist climate futures of #Palestine and the #Levant.
With @bothness, I co-founded Palestine Open Maps https://PalOpenMaps.org
I'm Palestinian Syrian, based in #Toronto. I hope it's not controversial on this new server to:
1. Echo reports by Amnesty International[1] and Human Rights Watch[2] that Israel is an Apartheid state.
2. Recognize #ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu is sufficient grounds for action against a potential genocide in #Gaza.
3. Call for peaceful boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (#BDS) against Israel until apartheid and genocide end
[1]: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/
@majdal Not at all. We welcome your postings on these issues. I'm a member of PSC. Others here are saddened by the genocide by the martial state of Israel.
@linuxgnome @Pamela1960 Thank you for the welcome. My previous home server permanently banned my account without any previous strikes for posting about #BDS. BDS to me should be very uncontroversial as a non-violent means of resistance, but in reality was not.
I submitted an appeal 6 days ago but didn't even receive a response. I know that the work of #moderation in the #fediverse is exhausting and thankless, but a single strike and you're out, with no warning is excessive.
@majdal @linuxgnome Some servers are bad on moderation and free speech. Mastodon.social is one of them. Most are fine.