Ottawa

The Ottawa music and arts presenter signed, through its director, the October 2023 Artists and Academics in Canada letter, whose signers pledge to accept neither professional invitations to Israel nor funding from Israeli government-linked institutions.

The Ottawa literary magazine is listed as a signatory of the Publishers for Palestine Statement of Solidarity (November 2023), whose demands include "Uphold the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid."

Two BDS supporter lists (CJPME and the Canadian BDS Coalition) name a Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights chapter at the University of Ottawa.

Two BDS supporter lists (CJPME and the Canadian BDS Coalition) name OPIRG Ottawa.

Two BDS supporter lists (CJPME and the Canadian BDS Coalition) name the General Union of Palestine Students at the University of Ottawa.

A bdsmovement.net item of 2010-01-26 reports that Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Carleton launched a campaign calling on Carleton University to divest from named corporations, and two BDS supporter lists name a SAIA chapter at Carleton.

Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice posted on its website that its board voted on January 18, 2016 in favour of "a boycott of products from companies, regardless of origin, that participate in Israel's occupation" and a cultural boycott, and that it joined the Canadian BDS Coalition in January 2017.

Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab)

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On 2025-06-16 the Scholarly Communications Lab (SFU and uOttawa) published a statement that it "asserts its commitment to align its activities with the principles laid out by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)."

Canadian Union of Postal Workers

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At its national convention held 13 to 17 April 2008 in Ottawa, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers passed resolution 338/339 supporting the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, as reported by two third-party sources.

The Ottawa 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."

Arc Poetry Magazine

October 10, 2026

The Ottawa magazine signed the Publishers for Palestine Statement of Solidarity (November 2023), whose demands include "Uphold the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid."

The Ottawa handmade soap maker 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 Ottawa photo studio rental space is listed by the Canadian BDS Coalition as an Apartheid-Free business, a list that defines such businesses as "committing to the boycott of Israeli and complicit products in solidarity with Palestine."

The Ottawa photo and video studio is listed by the Canadian BDS Coalition as an Apartheid-Free business, a list that defines such businesses as "committing to the boycott of Israeli and complicit products in solidarity with Palestine."

The Ottawa bakery is listed by the Canadian BDS Coalition as an Apartheid-Free business, a list that defines such businesses as "committing to the boycott of Israeli and complicit products in solidarity with Palestine."

The Ottawa residential-schools education project is listed by the Canadian BDS Coalition as an Apartheid-Free organization, which the list defines as "upholding the principles of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign".

The Ottawa student public interest group at Carleton University declared itself an Apartheid Free Zone on the Canadian BDS Coalition list, and its website says "we are committed to calling out and boycotting companies that support and legitimize Israel's continued and systematic dispossession of the Palestinian people."

The Ottawa online fair trade marketplace is listed by the Canadian BDS Coalition as an Apartheid-Free business, a list that defines such businesses as "committing to the boycott of Israeli and complicit products in solidarity with Palestine."

The Ottawa faculty union passed a motion on October 31, 2024 (128 to 65) that calls on Carleton University to suspend its involvement with Israeli academic institutions that support the occupation and divests its strike fund from corporations it says enable Israeli war crimes.