We support the encampment as well as the student calls for UBC to divest from companies complicit in Palestinian human rights abuses, to boycott Israeli universities and institutions ... to accept the students’ demands in joining the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions. ... support the student encampment and their demands for divestment and academic boycott. ... This statement was supported by majority of the GRSJ faculty and does not reflect the voice and views of all GRSJ faculty and associates or the official views of the University.
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC
Vancouver (Operates in this area)
Organization
Education
Website: grsj.arts.ubc.ca
Also known as: GRSJ, UBC GRSJ
Public statement
On 2024-05-02 the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC-Vancouver published a statement, supported by a majority of its faculty, that calls on UBC "to accept the students’ demands in joining the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions."
Last reviewed October 21, 2026