Toronto

Teachers for Palestine - Toronto is listed on the Apartheid-Free Communities signatory list and on the Vote Palestine list of organizations endorsing a platform that asks the Canadian government to impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

University of Toronto Students' Union

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On 2024-05-05 the University of Toronto Students' Union stated it supports "the demands set forth by the parties involved: to disclose the university's investments and financial holdings, divest from investments that sustain Israeli apartheid, and terminate partnerships with Israeli academic institutions".

Ontario Federation of Labour

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In a statement dated 2025-07-30, the Ontario Federation of Labour called for "Sanctions against the Israeli government for violations of international law".

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.

CanLit Responds

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A group of authors and cultural workers in Toronto published a letter on its website dated 2024-07-10 that demands the Giller Foundation "Cut ties with all funders directly invested in Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine", and a Boycott Giller page that calls on Canadian authors and book workers to refuse to submit books or take part in Giller events until the prize drops Scotiabank, Indigo Books and the Azrieli Foundation as sponsors. A page dated 2026-04-09 states the boycott has ended.

FURDOSE

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A Toronto art shop sells a print on its own website under the product name "Globalize the Intifada", published 2025-07-21, whose description ends "Globalize the intifada."

University of Toronto Faculty Association

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At a members' meeting on 2025-05-08, the University of Toronto Faculty Association passed a motion calling on the University Pension Plan to divest from all holdings in "entities engaged in activities that support or sustain Israel’s illegal occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory".

Toronto performing arts organization whose Instagram account posted on 2025-03-05 a slide stating it joins a coalition endorsing the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli institutions.

Toronto emerging theatre artists collective that posted on Instagram on 2025-03-05 that it is endorsing PACBI.

Toronto performing arts incubator that posted on Instagram on 2025-03-05 that it is joining a coalition of performing arts organizations endorsing the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli institutions.

Toronto performing arts collective that posted on Instagram on 2025-08-17 "manidoons collective stands with PACBI" under a group PACBI endorsement announcement.

Toronto and York Region Labour Council

October 15, 2026

On 6 February 2026, the Toronto and York Region Labour Council published on its website a list of resolutions for the 2026 Canadian Labour Congress convention, recommended by its Executive Board, including one calling on the CLC to declare trade, services and relationships with Israel to be "hot cargo".

In November 2023 Upping the Anti, a Toronto journal, published the Publishers for Palestine Statement of Solidarity on its own blog with "Upping the Anti, Canada" among the signatories; the statement's demands include "Uphold the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid."

University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union

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The UTGSU website lists a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Caucus that "coordinates efforts to educate and mobilize the membership and our broader community in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement".

CUPE 1230

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CUPE 1230, the union of University of Toronto Libraries workers, 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.

On its Watermelon Maps entry on the Presence platform, marked "Verified on Presence", the Toronto custom jersey maker lists the allyship options "BDS compliant, Visible ally, Post on social media".

On its Watermelon Maps entry on the Presence platform, marked "Verified on Presence", the Toronto café lists the allyship options "BDS compliant, Visible ally".

Jasad Dance Projects

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On October 1, 2025 the Toronto contemporary dance company posted on its website that it "is committed to adhering to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS) and endorses the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)", committing to boycott Israeli cultural institutions it considers complicit.

York University Faculty Association (YUFA)

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Minutes of the faculty union's November 19, 2024 general membership meeting, published in its April 2025 AGM package, record as carried a motion that "Calls for York University to end all cooperation with Israeli academic and cultural institutions contributing to the ongoing war and occupation".

OCAD University Faculty Association (OCADFA)

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On May 30, 2024 the Toronto faculty union wrote on its website that it "has also formally endorsed" a petition which "demands OCAD University to disclose investments and to cut ties with all RBC partnerships and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design".