The Eyeopener reported on 2024-05-11 that the Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association voted in favour of a motion to form a committee whose objectives include divestment of the university's holdings and review of its cooperation with Israeli academic and cultural institutions.
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The motion also calls for the divestment of the university’s financial holdings that are allegedly linked to the conflict as well as ending all of Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU) alleged cooperation with Israeli academic and cultural institutions.
The Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty Association passed a BDS motion on May 6, 2024. Faculty voted to establish a committee to investigate the University’s academic and financial interests linked to the genocide of Palestinians. The committee is mandated to carry out a full audit of all investments, including endowments and pension fund assets; to seek divestment of holdings from companies linked to genocide, human rights violations, occupation, and apartheid in Israel; and to review with the goal of ending TMU’s cooperation with Israeli academic and cultural institutions.
Whereas numerous Canadian unions, including [...] the Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty Association [...] called for divestment from and boycott of all institutions and corporations complicit in Israeli war crimes, breaches of international law, and human rights violations in occupied Palestine