Organizing in solidarity with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) since 2008
University of Montreal's SGPPUM is the first Canadian Faculty Association to call for a boycott of Israeli Universities! The historic motion was passed unanimously last Friday March 22nd by the SGPPUM Council, amid growing mobilization by student and faculty.🧵
Dr. Yipeng Ge, a resident physician was abruptly suspended from his program by the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine.
Call on the University of Ottawa to reverse the suspension of Dr. Yipeng Ge & issue an apology
Faculty for Palestine (F4P) wholeheartedly supports the student encampments for Palestine at universities across the settler colonial state of Canada and around the world. The students are holding universities accountable by insisting that they end their complicity with Israeli
Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty Association passes a BDS motion.
An overwhelming majority passed the motion (78%) at the AGM today. The motion also condemns Scholasticide, calls for a permanent ceasefire & more.
Congrats to the F4P faculty that mobilized to make it happen!
“The encampment has come to Tiohtiake / Montreal today! And Concordia and McGill students have created a liberated zone” -Academics for Palestine Concordia ✊🏼🇵🇸✊🏼
Joint letter F4P, PCAAN and
@FacultyJewish
letter to universities.
“We demand that Canadian universities publicly condemn the
#scholasticide
enacted in Palestine, that they provide moral and material support to Palestinian students & academics; & that they review all their
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Please join F4P members and the coalition of York faculty in a walk out at York University on Tues Nov 28 (2-3pm) in support of York peace activists/Indigo arrestees.
We stand with York Faculty & Staff.
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#stopcampusreprisals
The F4P UofT chapter has just released a University of Toronto Faculty Pledge for the Academic Boycott of Israel.
100+ faculty have pledged to uphold
@PACBI
’s call for academic boycott. UofT faculty are urged to sign the pledge as students demand BDS.
F4P condemns
@YorkUniversity
admin calling police to crackdown on the Popular University for Palestine encampment. Students protesting were given trespass notices & police in riot gear cleared this peaceful encampment. Shame on violating academic freedom & civil liberties.
Early this morning, we heard that there were dozens of cops who came to the York student encampment to dismantle this peaceful protest, coming in the heels of a letter from administration saying they are committed to "open and respectful dialogue." /1
Jews say No to Genocide press conference at Indigo.
UofT faculty,
@NaomiAKlein
and others protesting police and state repression against peace activists, and workplace (including university) reprisals meant to silence criticism of complicit institutions in genocide.
This Wednesday, the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association voted on, and PASSED, three motions proposed by members of Faculty 4 Palestine-USASK chapter.
Here's a sneak peek:
📜 MOTION
#1
: Boycott Divestment and Sanctions
We're endorsing the UN's definition of academic
Faculty for Palestine(F4P)supports the student encampments for Palestine across all universities.F4P calls on all faculty to support & stand in solidarity with the students & to condemn all forms of repression by uni admins & the state
Read Full Statement
Check out F4Ps new website. A great resource for
-sample BDS resolutions for faculty associations
-toolkits on scholasticide, BDS & more
-legal support
-reports on APR
-reading lists, articles
-statements
+ more
Join us this Friday, January 19, at 2pm EST | 11am PST | 12pm MST for a discussion about the repression of Palestinian activism on our campuses and how faculty can organize to speak up about and for Palestine.
Registration Required:
.
@YorkUPresident
: JFN Steering Committee denounces in no uncertain terms the attack on academic freedom at York University this afternoon. Prof Muhannad Ayyash’s talk The Palestinian Struggle for Liberation: Aspirations for a Decolonial Life was interrupted by the Toronto Police
Today an Open Letter on repression of Palestinians & Palestine solidarity at
@UAlberta
was delivered to President Flanagan, Provost Yiu, Vice-Provost Sanghera, & Vice-Provost Smith. W/ over 1,100 signatories, we invite
#UAlberta
leaders to attend a Town Hall Meeting in Jan 2024.
Powerful statement of support from the traditional council of Kahnawake that have confirmed that students erecting encampments across Turtle Island have the right to be on this land as per the Two Row Wampum Peace Treaty.
Faculty for Palestine National Week of Action January 15-19, 2024. Amid a genocide & intense repression on campuses, join events that will take places across campuses in Canada.
Join the online webinar Friday January 19th 2024 (2pm EST | 11am PST | 12pm MST).
Pls share widely
F4P endorses
@HA4Palestine
’s statement on the targeting of medical learners applying to residency programs in Canada through the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS).
See details
Our joint statement (), with 9 endorsing organizations, calls on
@CaRMS_CA
to initiate a full investigation into CBC article which reveals plans to target medical students & interfere with residency app. process due to signing HAP letter.
#called2theoffice
Sign and share the
@sawporg
“All I Want for the Holidays is a Ceasefire” petition
Join thousands of scholars across the world including
@ghassan
Abu Sitta, Karma Nabulsi, Cornel West, Robin DG Kelley, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
and many others
Scholars Against the War in Palestine Petition “All I Want for the Holidays is a Ceasefire”
Please read, sign and share the petition widely to your networks
🚨 *ACTION ALERT* 🚨
*ATTN Community Members* ‼️
*WHAT*: Please send an email to the Peel District School Board (PDSB) demanding the immediate reinstatement of Principal Richard Ward.
*WHY*: Principal Ward was arbitrarily suspended following his pro-Palestinian tweets
A Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine
A call from Palestinian Higher Education institutions
Do not be Silent during Israel’s Unfolding Genocide
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
@BirzeitU
FACULTY FOR PALESTINE DEMANDS END TO GENOCIDAL ATTACK ON GAZA
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Faculty for Palestine Canada expresses our unwavering support for and solidarity with the Palestinian people. We heed the call from our colleagues at Birzeit University on international
The Palestine Prohibited webinar concluded F4P’s National Week of Action that took place across 🇨🇦.
The webinar covered cases of repression, lawfare, Scholasticide, APR, Islamophobia and a discussion on faculty organizing.
The recording is available ⬇️
The Palestine Legal Referral Service has just launched, connecting individuals expressing support for Palestine and Palestinians with experienced legal counsel.
Today, we're launching the Palestine Legal Referral Service: a national legal referral service of 50+ lawyers across Canada connecting individuals expressing support for Palestine and Palestinians with experienced legal counsel.
Motions to boycott Israel were recently adopted by 6 departments of the Faculty of Arts ad Science. Although a 2022 boycott motion brought before UdeM's senate was defeated, bilateral agreements with Israeli universities were subsequently reduced from 10 to 4.
Another BDS victory!
@RenisonAAS
at Waterloo passed a motion by an overwhelming majority, is the 4th in Canada
The motion calls for a permanent ceasefire,condemns
#scholasticide
, supports calls of Waterloo to divest & boycott institutions complicit in🇮🇱war crimes & more
Stop Bill 166 which attempts to repress Palestine solidarity on campuses while claiming to support mental health. It enables the Minister of Universities and Colleges power to politically interfere. Please sign the petition
Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world
We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities.
Must read
Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world
We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities
🧵
Professor Shalhoub Kevorkian, a Palestinian, was suspended from her teaching activities at Hebrew University (see details below and in link)! Please consider signing this and please circulate in your networks.
Most recently an egregious agreement with Ariel University - an institution housed on illegally occupied Palestinian land - was cancelled, reducing the number to 3. UdeM still boasts three agreements with Israeli universities- with Tel Aviv, Hebrew and Ben Gurion universities.
TRU is the first Canadian university to commit to disclosing any investments it may have with Israel or companies that do business with Israel.The university also committed to reviewing a divestment proposal from the students.
We amplify the call of
@PalestineLabour
, our sister organization, to the Canadian Labour Congress to tell them to end their silence on the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Lets join in sending this msg to the CLC
Join us in writing a letter to the Canadian Labour Congress to tell them to end their silence on the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
It's time to take a stand.
#cdnpoli
#canlab
#FreePalestine
Please join the Regina F4P chapter for a webinar on Academic freedom the Palestine Exception.
Jan 18, 12 pm CST
Speakers:
David Robinson, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers will provide an overview of academic freedom
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UBC faculty, students and staff join the Palestine Prohibited Town Hall at UBC
Jan 17 | 17:00-19:00
See QR code and flyer for details.
Share with those interested
Check out this powerful Scholasticide Toolkit
A great new organizing resource for faculty & students (by
@sawporg
).
It includes a full definition of Scholasticide, guide for organizing, stats and list of fallen scholars & links.
Please Share Widely
#Scholasticide
Toolkit
A powerful resource for faculty & students which includes:
-A full definition of scholasticide
-Step by step guide to organizing
-An updated list of academics killed in Gaza
-Latest statistics
-Resources & links
Share widely
Petition to the Government of Canada
We, Canadian academics,civil society organisations, trade unions & concerned citizens seek endorsement to this letter addressed to PM Trudeau & the Government of Canada, expressing our deep concern over reported events in Palestine & Israel
relationships with Israeli academia, immediately ending any relation that might be connected to ‘plausibly genocidal acts’ within the terms of the ICJ ruling.
Letter written in light of Israel’s destruction of higher education institutions and infrastructure in Gaza
According to the Education Ministry in
#Gaza
more than 4037 students & 209 educational staff have been killed in this genocidal war
Karma Nabulsi underscores this is a long colonial war and calls upon scholars to speak loudly so our chants echo straight to Gaza
for the failure to engage in due process in the investigation of Dr. Yipeng Ge and other students of the University of Ottawa who have been unjustly denied their fundamental right to free expression.
its deliberate killing of hundreds of academics and students, as well as the dismantling of academic life in the occupied West Bank, we are asking presidents of Canadian universities to take action.
Join this webinar on Palestine Prohibited today for a discussion on the new McCarthyism and repression on campuses in Canada amid a genocide. This webinar is part of Faculty for Palestines National Week of Action.
Registration required, link below.
Join us this Friday, January 19, at 2pm EST | 11am PST | 12pm MST for a discussion about the repression of Palestinian activism on our campuses and how faculty can organize to speak up about and for Palestine.
Registration Required:
Faculty for Palestine reiterates its commitment to Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions and echoes the call of students from Turtle Island to Palestine:
Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!
“Scholasticide is not an event. It’s part of a colonial continuum of attacking and destroying a people’s educational life, knowledge systems and plundering material culture and cultural heritage.”
See article in
@ConversationCA
⬇️
📜 MOTION
#2
: Scholasticide We're vehemently opposing Israeli violence against Palestinian scholars, students, and educational institutions. Every attack on education is an attack on humanity. Join us in condemning these actions.
We condemn administrators who have been silent about the scholasticide that has taken place in Gaza, while creating false narratives about antisemitism, violence, and infiltrators.
These three motions have just been passed by UFSA, signalling a powerful commitment to justice and solidarity. Stay tuned as we continue our journey towards positive change. Together, we can make a difference!
Breaking! The York Popular University for Palestine (YPUP) has been established at the People’s Common for Palestine (in front of the York U subway station)
@YorkUniversity
in Toronto. The students' demands are clear: Disclose, Divest, Boycott. 🧵
freedom, emphasizing the importance of international law and human rights. Plus, we're standing in solidarity with the global BDS movement against Israel. Let's promote fair discussion and equality for all!
Faculty for Palestine condemns university administrators who invite violent reprisal upon the students for bravely calling on their institutions to stop supporting genocide.
📜 MOTION
#3
: Call for Support
Let's support Palestinian scholars and students affected by the ongoing conflict. The USFA is urging the University of Saskatchewan to provide opportunities, scholarships, and financial aid to those impacted by the crisis.
from all Israeli companies and terminate partnerships with all institutions that support or sustain Israeli occupation and apartheid, and the genocide in Gaza.
Join us this Friday, January 19 @ 2pm EST |11am PST |12pm MST for a discussion about the repression of Palestinian activism on our campuses & how faculty can organize to speak up about and for Palestine, amid 103 days of genocide
Registration:
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occupation,apartheid & genocide & all forms of support for Israel. F4P calls on all faculty to support and stand in solidarity with the students, and to condemn all forms of repression by university administrators & the state targeting the encampments & activists
The student encampments are playing a central role in the global struggle for Palestinian liberation. As faculty, we learn from the depth of their solidarity and the clarity of their vision. They uphold the demands of Palestinian civil society by demanding universities divest
F4P stands with allied groups calling unequivocally for the removal of B.C. Minister for Post-Secondary Education,
@selinarobinson
after her racist comments about Palestine. She also interfered on employment matters over a faculty members comments on 🇵🇸. Unacceptable.
🫒The Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network
🫒Faculty for Palestine
🫒Jewish Faculty Network
🫒JFN - UBC Chapter
Stand together to call unequivocally for the removal of B.C. Minister for Post-Secondary Education,
@selinarobinson
.
One of Gaza’s beloved professor, poet, writer, Refaat Alareer was killed by Israeli forces. May his words be remembered and taught everywhere.
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#StopTheGenocideInGaza
Birzeit University Students and faculty supporting the calls for divestment from Israels war machine to prevent scholasticide against our colleagues and students in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank.
Last week Toronto Police were dispatched to an academic lecture at York University.F4P joins several groups demanding York publicly apologize,launch a public investigation & conduct an audit of communications on 🇵🇸 solidarity. Sign & share petition at link
Please sign this petition for Immediate Protection for Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Palestinian scholar who was detained and interrogated recently by Israel. This is an official letter/petition that was crafted with her legal team.
Please sign & circulate this petition for immediate Protection for Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Palestinian scholar who was detained & interrogated recently by Israel. This is an official letter & petition that was crafted with her legal team.
in an attempt to silence him.
*HOW*:
1. Click on the email link: . It’s a good idea to change the contents of the email a bit to make it unique.
2. Sign your name.
*WHEN*: ASAP!!
These administrators privilege the rights of the Israeli state – a state that has illegally and increasingly occupied the Palestinian territories since 1967, enforced a blockade on Gaza since 2007, and has killed over 35,000 Palestinians and displaced 2 million since October 7,
We condemn administrators who have been silent about the scholasticide that has taken place in Gaza, while creating false narratives about antisemitism, violence, and infiltrators.
2023 – over the rights of their students to protest this genocidal violence. F4P condemns administrators who preemptively threaten and attempt to criminalize students for even thinking about exercising their rights to assemble and make demands of their universities.
International Call to Action Against Scholasticide | Feb 18 – 29
@sawporg
its international partners
are calling on faculty and students globally to raise awareness & mobilize in an international campaign against Scholasticide in Palestine
Share widely
premised on equality, justice, and freedom of the Palestinian people is the only path forward.
As always, our hearts are with the people of Palestine.
Ceasefire Now!
We are proud to be joining dozens of actions across the country on Nov 12.
All out in the streets
📢 Ceasefire now!
📢 Provide humanitarian aid
📢 Stop Canada's complicity by ending the sale of arms
Find one of the events near you here:
UN aid agencies are faced with reducing their operations. Journalists, medics, hospitals, and educational institutions are systematically being targeted. Israel’s bombardment has struck approximately 185 educational facilities, including UNRWA schools and the Islamic University