• CUPE union votes for academic boycott of Israel

    Posted on February 23, 2009

    Feb 22, 2009 08:23 PM Adrian Morrow staff reporter University workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees have passed a controversial motion calling for an academic boycott of Israel, and union members from at least one Toronto university are planning to pressure their school to cut any financial ties with the country. Although the […]

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  • CUPE members vote to boycott Israeli universities

    Posted on February 22, 2009

    Updated: Sun Feb. 22 2009 1:14:50 PM The Canadian Press WINDSOR, Ont. – Delegates at a conference in Windsor for the Canadian Union of Public Employees have voted in favour of boycotting Israeli universities. Resolution 50 protests the Israeli siege of Gaza, which members of the Jewish Defence League call anti-Semitic. At least two locals […]

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  • Open Letter from University of Toronto Faculty

    Posted on February 21, 2009

    OPEN LETTER TO President Naylor, Dear President Naylor, January 16, 2009 Shortly after launching the attack on Gaza, Israel’s jets bombed the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG). The Israeli state claims that the IUG is a “cultural symbol” of Hamas. Neither this nor any other justification of Israel’s disrespect for human life and breaches of […]

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  • Profs call for debate

    Posted on February 10, 2009

    by The Charlatan Dear Charlatan, As members of Carleton faculty, we wish to express our support for the proposal put forward by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA Carleton). In his Jan. 22-28 Charlatan opinion piece, SAIA representative Ben Saifer called for a public debate with the Carleton administration on the academic institutional boycott of Israel. […]

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  • Montreal: professors and university employees call for Israel boycott

    Posted on January 25, 2009

    Le Devoir. January 24 2009. We are a group of teachers and employees at Quebec colleges and universities who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and with the people of Gaza who have suffered through the Israeli siege as targets of Israel”s brutal military attack. It will take more than ceasefires to bring a […]

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  • 300 Canadian academics send letter to Harper, Call for Sanctions

    Posted on January 12, 2009

    Dear Prime Minister Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister Cannon: We the undersigned academics and educators express our condemnation of Israel’s attack on Gaza. With over 600 dead, including 100 children, we call on the Canadian government to demand an immediate cessation of Israeli hostilities. As per the position of UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights […]

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