Faculty Association at U. Toronto Votes to Divest From Israel
“One of the prominent driving forces behind the motion was the UofT Faculty and Librarians for UPP Divestment group.”
The radical left BDS movement has been pushing for this in higher education for years and they think their moment is finally here.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
University of Toronto Faculty Association votes to divest from Israel
The University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) has voted to divest from Israel, the association announced on Friday.
This decision stems from Israel’s “illegal occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the UTFA said.
The motion, which passed by 52% of the vote, calls on the Ontario University Pension Plan (UPP) to produce a rapid timeline for complete divestment from all direct and indirect holdings in entities that support or sustain Israel’s “occupation and/or which manufacture” or distribute arms, ammunition, or munitions of war where “there are reasonable grounds to suspect they may have been used by Israel in Palestine.”
It added that all new investments should be screened, and that these divestment commitments should then be incorporated into the UPP’s investment exclusion policy.
The motion claimed that the divestment from Israel should occur in line with the university’s current divestment from Russia.
One of the prominent driving forces behind the motion was the UofT Faculty and Librarians for UPP Divestment group.
It announced that all people who pledged support to the motion were anonymous, due to alleged fears of a “penalty for taking a public anti-war, anti-apartheid or anti-occupation position.”
The faculty also said it was fearful of “doxxing,” particularly against “indigenous colleagues, colleagues of color, [and] junior [or] precarious colleagues.”
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Love that protection against revealing who voted for BDS, So brave.
Go ahead. It’s worthless Canadian dollars in a country that has voted to continue to destroy themselves when they had a real option to halt their fall.
Far Leftists with an axe to grind.
They continue to refuse to accept that Israel is Palestine, and the Jews are the native Palestinians historically speaking.