Toronto

Femme Art Review is listed among the organizations on the 2021 Koffler Centre of the Arts boycott pledge (not to show at, collaborate with, or participate in events at the Koffler until it divests from the UJA) and under "Institutions Endorsing the Call" on the Writers Against the War on Gaza cultural boycott page, which lists organizations that made PACBI commitments.

In 2017, the Faculty Council voted 15 to 7 to recommend that the dean not seek a new agreement with the Arava Institute. York University said no boycott was voted on. The CJPME list of Canadian organizations that endorse BDS names the faculty.

In 2021, the Toronto arts organization signed a pledge not to show at, collaborate with or take part in events at the Koffler Centre of the Arts until it divests from the UJA. NOW Toronto named it among the signers on 2021-05-25.

The Socialist Project posted on its Facebook page on 2026-08-15 a post about Elbit with a link to armsembargonow.ca titled "Arms Embargo Now!" and an image reading "ELBIT OUT OF".

IfNotNow Toronto is listed as a signatory of the Arms Embargo Now statement, which calls on the Canadian government to impose a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel (armsembargonow.ca), and as an endorsing organization of the Vote Palestine platform, which calls for a full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel (votepalestine.ca).

Just Peace Advocates

Area listing

A "BDS Actions" post dated 1 January 2024 on the Just Peace Advocates website says "Boycott Puma until they are apartheid free" and lists brands and goods to boycott, including "boycott apartheid medjoul and apartheid wine".

SURJ Toronto is listed as a signatory of the Arms Embargo Now statement, which calls on the Canadian government to impose a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel (armsembargonow.ca), and as an endorsing organization of the Vote Palestine platform, which calls for a full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel (votepalestine.ca).

United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel (UNJPPI)

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UNJPPI states on its website "UNJPPI supports the BDS Campaign, which is led and supported by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)", and is listed as a signatory of the Arms Embargo Now statement.

Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers)

October 13, 2026

In 2014 CFSC published a Canadian Yearly Meeting minute encouraging Friends "to boycott products of illegal Israeli settlements", and in July 2025 a Quaker statement calling for sanctions on Israel.

CUPE 1281

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CUPE 1281, a Toronto union local founded by employees of the Toronto Metropolitan University Students' Union, co-submitted Resolution 113 to CUPE's October 2025 national convention, calling on CUPE to "endorse, support and implement concrete actions of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign" against Israel.

Canadian Federation of Students–Ontario (CFS-Ontario)

October 11, 2026

In a September 27, 2024 statement, the Toronto-based provincial student federation wrote that students demand public institutions divest from investments and businesses "contributing to the Israeli settler-colonial apartheid state, and for everyone to join the boycott of companies and banks that are also complicit".

The Toronto secular Jewish cultural and educational organization 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."

In April 2018, the Toronto coalition was listed on an open letter calling for economic sanctions on Israel. The CJPME list of Canadian organizations that endorse BDS names it.

OPIRG York, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York University, posted a statement on 2024-05-24 that calls on York University to "disclose, divest, boycott" and says it affirmed support for the BDS movement in October 2023. It is also listed as a supporter of the Together Against Apartheid campaign (togetheragainstapartheid.org).

IDRF is listed as a signatory of the open letter to Minister Joly of 30 August 2024, published on ploughshares.ca and oxfam.ca, which urges the Government of Canada to cease all exports of arms and arms components to Israel.

No Arms In The Arts states on its website that it launched a campaign against Scotiabank in March 2024 and called on the Toronto Arts Foundation to cut ties with the Azrieli Foundation, and it appears on the Arms Embargo Now list.

The Workers' Action Centre in Toronto co-published on its Instagram account on 2025-09-04 a Draw the Line coalition post that says: "We demand an immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel".

Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT Canada), with an office in Toronto, is listed on the Arms Embargo Now statement that calls on the Canadian government to "impose a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel", on its copy published by the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, and on the Vote Palestine endorsing organizations list.

Socialist Action, a political organization active in the Toronto area, lists "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against the Zionist state and economy!" among its demands in its June 2022 resolution, posted on socialistaction.ca, and it is listed as an endorser of the October 2024 BDS Week of Action.

Rights Action is listed as a signatory of the Arms Embargo Now statement, which calls on the Canadian government to "impose a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel", and is named among its signatories in a 2024-05-22 post on pbicanada.org.