El Jones, a Halifax poet and author, is listed as a signatory ("El Jones, Assistant Professor") of the 2023 Artists & Academics in Canada pledge to accept neither professional invitations to Israel nor funding from institutions linked to its government, and in a 2025 op-ed called for Israel to be banned from international sport and sanctioned.
Last reviewed October 8, 2026
We call upon the International Tennis Federation and all other sporting bodies to ban Israel from international competition as long as its genocidal occupation of Palestine continues. We call on Tennis Canada to uphold accountability and apply to Israel the same sanctions it applied to Russia. ... Israel must not play while it turns Gaza into a graveyard.
In response to the open call from Palestinian artists and cultural workers for a cultural boycott of Israel, we pledge to accept neither professional invitations to Israel, nor funding, from any institutions linked to its government until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights. ... El Jones, Assistant Professor