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CUPE 3906

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CUPE 3906 published an Executive Committee statement on 2023-10-10 that calls for "an end to arms exports and military funding from Canada to Israel" and says its 2023-10-07 repost added the message "Palestine is rising, long live the resistance".

Dandelion Film Collective signed the 2023 Artists for Palestine - Canada letter that called the October 7 attack a reaction to decades of oppressive treatment, and pledged a cultural boycott of Israeli state-linked institutions.

The Hamilton artist-run centre posted on its website that it "is endorsing PACBI, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel."

The Disability Justice Network of Ontario, which lists Hamilton on its site, published a letter on 8 October 2025 urging the Canadian government to "Enact immediate and lasting sanctions on Israel" and to put in place "a two way arms embargo", and it is listed on the Vote Palestine endorsing organizations.

Pride Hamilton's board published a statement on its website in July 2024 that says the organization "will remain Apartheid-Free, Occupation-Free".

A Hamilton coalition posted on its Facebook page on 2026-09-09 a protest notice at Battlefield International whose attached text states the goal "to apply pressure on Battlefield to cut ties with Elbit".

A McMaster Students Union document and a May 2024 news report describe the McMaster Apartheid Divest Coalition as urging McMaster University to boycott and divest and to terminate partnerships with Israeli academic institutions.

The McMaster University news post of 2024-10-30 reports that Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights presented its case to the Board of Governors on 2024-10-24 for divestment of university investments on the BDS divestment list, and two BDS supporter lists name an SPHR chapter at McMaster.

The Hamilton theatre producer is named among 18 Canadian performing arts organizations in a March 2025 group endorsement of PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, in a Literary Hub report and in the Writers Against the War on Gaza list of institutions endorsing the call.

BIC Hamilton

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BIC Hamilton is listed as a signatory of the April 26, 2024 joint letter to Members of Parliament that asks them to "Support a bilateral arms embargo against Israel" and of the March 19, 2025 letter to the Prime Minister that calls on Canada to "impose a two-way weapons embargo" (canadianmuslimpac.ca, nccm.ca).

Together Design Studio

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The Hamilton branding and web design studio has a claimed Watermelon Maps entry tagged "BDS Committed" with the allyship options "Visible ally, BDS compliant, Post on social media".

The Hamilton salon has a verified Watermelon Maps entry with the allyship options "BDS compliant, Post on social media, Visible ally" and the text "I make sure the products I use don't come from companies who support Isreal."

On 2024-06-03 the MUFA membership voted in favour of a motion for a faculty committee with the objective "The divestment of the university's investments, endowments, pension fund, purchases, and other financial holdings from companies linked to genocide, human rights violations, occupation, and apartheid in Israel."

McMaster Students Union

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In a statement adopted by its Student Representative Assembly on September 12, 2021, the McMaster Students Union cited its 2015 General Assembly vote "endorsing the 2005 call for Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions" and said it "has already stopped purchasing from, and will continue to refrain from purchasing from" seven named companies.

The Hamilton chapter of Independent Jewish Voices Canada signed the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge, which commits signers to "join others in working to end all support to Israel’s Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation."

The Hamilton Quaker congregation signed the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge, which commits signers to "join others in working to end all support to Israel’s Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation."