On 2026-04-09 the Alma Mater Society of UBC published an open letter to the UBC Vancouver Senate and administration following a March 2026 student referendum on whether the AMS should call for UBC "to cut ties with all institutions upholding apartheid, including Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and Tel Aviv University".
Last reviewed October 18, 2026
Between March 9–13, 2026, 13,476 UBC students participated in an AMS referendum posing the following question: “Do you support the AMS calling for the University of British Columbia to cut ties with all institutions upholding apartheid, including Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and Tel Aviv University, by writing an open letter to UBC and the UBC Vancouver Academic Senate?” Of those who voted on this question, 8,894 students (83.5%) voted in favour.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the AMS will pen a letter to UBC and the Board of Governors to direct the UBC Endowment Fund to divest from the nine companies mentioned above