UofT Occupy for Palestine

DROP HUJI: A new campaign from UofT Occupy for Palestine and Tkarón:to Students in Solidarity With Palestine. If you are a UofT student looking to get involved with our campaign there are a few ways to do so: 🏛️ Attend our Town Hall on Thursday, March 13, 5:00 PM, at UTSU B100 where we will elaborate on HUJI’s complicity and explain the strategy behind choosing this campaign. We will also be serving Iftar at this event. 🏛️ 📝 Sign our petition demanding UofT end all institutional partnerships with HUJI and other complicit Israeli academic institutions. 📝 📧 Email UofT administration to demand that they cease institutional partnerships with HUJI and other complicit Israeli academic institutions. 📧 The RSVP form for the Town Hall, the petition, and the email template can all be found in our LinkTree. DISCLOSE, DIVEST, CUT TIES 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

This Nakba Day—as the zionist massacres in Gaza continue, as the threat of a renewed genocide looms, and as the West Bank faces land theft and settler violence—we must remember the urgency of our struggle. We must fight even harder against the forces of zionism and imperialism which have now set their eyes on the entire region. We must force our universities and our governments to end their complicity. As students in the belly of the beast, we live in close proximity to the infrastructure sustaining the oppression of the Palestinian people, whether it be the weapons factories supplying the zionist entity, or our own complicit universities. This gives us a historic obligation: we must leverage our position within the imperial core and fight to change the balance of power decisively in favour of those resisting the ongoing Nakba. Glory to the Martyrs Victory to the Resistance Until Liberation and Return

Yesterday, the undersigned student groups, workers, unions, and faculty sent a letter to the University of Toronto demanding that they revoke their sponsorship of CANSEC. CANSEC is an annual Canadian defence and security conference that hosts weapons manufacturers and governments accused of war crimes and human rights abuses. UofT’s sponsorship marks the first time in CANSEC’s history that a public university has sponsored the event. We reject this move towards militarism by the University and demand that UofT uphold its very own mission in the protection of human rights and the advancement of justice by: 1. Revoking their sponsorship from CANSEC 2. Not sending representatives to attend
CANSEC 3. Implementing a divestment policy for weapons companies and other companies that violate human rights, similar to the University’s policy on fossil fuel divestment 4. Refusing to partner with weapons companies complicit in war crimes or human rights violations for research or commercial purposes

STUDENTS! JOIN US THIS SATURDAY - MAY 16TH Since the Nakba 78 years ago, the US-backed Zionist project has continued to wage a war of extermination on the Palestinian people, culminating in the last two years of genocide in Gaza. Emboldened by the genocide they are still committing in Gaza, the US and Zionist war machine has expanded the scope of their imperial war to Lebanon, Iran and the entire region. On Saturday May 16th at 3 PM at Sankofa Square (1 Dundas St E, Toronto) thousands of people will come together to demand an end to the ongoing Nakba and to affirm that we will struggle until full liberation and return. UNITY, LIBERATION, RETURN

Please join us on Friday for a talk and Q&A session with Eve Saint, Wet’suwet’en land defender after our screening of Yintah. Visit the link in bio to register for the event! 📢 Eve Saint is a Wet’suwet’en Land Defender who was one of a dozen Indigenous Land Defenders arrested in February 2020 under a 3-day siege protecting her Father’s territory, which helped spark the Shut Down Canada Movement. Eve will be commenting on the events of the film. 📅 Date: 8 May 2026 🕠 Doors open: 5:30 pm 🕕 Event start: 6:00 pm 📍 Location: St George campus (Building and room TBA to registrants) 🎟️ Free event + donations accepted onsite 🍴Dinner available for purchase 💸 Proceeds go to Unist’ot’en Healing Lodge 📩 Contact [email protected] with questions Background image: Wedzin Kwah river, the headwaters of Wet’suwet’en territory. Photo credit: Michael Toledano.

📣 Please join us on Friday for a screening of Yintah, followed by a talk by Eve Saint, Wet’suwet’en land defender. Visit the link in bio to register! 📢 📅 Date: 8 May 2026 📍 Location: St George campus (Building and room TBA to registrants) 🎟️ Free event + donations accepted onsite 🍴Dinner available for purchase 💸 Proceeds go to Unist’ot’en Healing Lodge 📩 Contact [email protected] with questions

Two students and a professor have filed a Charter challenge against the University of Alberta 🚨 By violently dismantling the People’s University for Palestine (@university4palestine.yeg ) solidarity encampment and forcibly removing student and faculty protestors, the U of A breached the plaintiffs’ Charter rights. These include freedom of expression, assembly, and association, which are protected under sections 2(b), (c) and (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms. On May 9, 2024, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members set up the @university4palestine.yeg to protest the U of A’s financial ties to Zionist settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide. Less than 48 hours later, Edmonton police descended on campus to violently dismantle the @university4palestine.yeg at the request of the University. Police attacked protesters with batons and pepper bullets. @ualberta and @bflanagan_uofa ordered physical attacks against their own students and faculty so they could keep financing colonial genocide and violating international law. This case isn’t only about the plaintiffs. It’s about standing up to the U of A and to every university that uses intimidation, repression, and violence to crush opposition to genocide, scholasticide, and other crimes against humanity. It’s about holding our universities accountable for their ongoing participation in the destruction of Palestinian life. It’s about protecting our communities’ right to protest genocide without retaliation. As the Canadian-backed US-Zionist war machine expands its imperial slaughter across Lebanon, Iran, and all of West Asia, we continue to demand the U of A completely divest from companies and institutions complicit in occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Please consider donating to the Chuffed fundraiser in @sjp.uofa ‘s bio. All donations directly support the plaintiffs’ legal costs and their legal counsel, who are working pro bono 🇵🇸

🚨STUDENTS, JOIN US TODAY TO SAY NO MORE U.S.-“ISRAELI” BOMBS ON LEBANON, GAZA AND IRAN 📍ZIONIST CONSULATE - 2 BLOOR ST E ⏰6PM HANDS OFF THE MIDDLE EAST—END ZIONISM, END IMPERIALISM.

‼️TMU SECURITY WHO BRUTALIZED STUDENT IS SPOTTED ON CAMPUS‼️ On Thursday, March 26, the same day that SSi TMU hosted war criminal Eli wininger, Ron Dominique was on TMU’s campus. On September 20, TMU released a statement claiming to care about student safety, citing that they would ensure he would not be present on campus. Allowing him onto campus retraumatized the students who first-hand witnessed the brutalization of a pro-Palestine community member. The platforming of iOF on the same day as Ron Dominique is spotted on campus cannot be separated. This exemplifies what Palestinian and allied students have been voicing: our safety is willfully neglected by TMU. The brutalization of a student on September 19 by Ron Dominique acting of behalf of TMU and the brutalization on November 5 of Palestinian, Muslim and allied students protesting war criminals are being probed- Palestinian, Muslim and allied students never had their voices heard until TMU gets a bad reputation. Now, as they scramble, their lack of action over the past few months have culminated to this moment: iOF and TMU security retraumatizing students.

‼️TODAY‼️ Today, March 25th join the UofT BDS Coalition for the #drophuji campaign launch. As part of the 21st Israeli Apartheid Week, you will organize with your fellow UofT members to end your university’s complicity in apartheid and occupation. UofT shares deep, unique ties with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI); a university which — supportive of many other human rights violations — operates in illegally occupied East Jerusalem. This event and the corresponding campaign work to end the University’s complicity in apartheid and occupation by pressuring the administration to cut institutional ties with HUJI. Get involved! 🗓️ TODAY (March 25th) 🕗 6-8 PM 📍 Wilson Hall 1017

🔎🐦 UofT students and faculty are expected to follow strict policies, procedures, and accountability standards. So why do those expectations disappear when it comes to those in positions of power? A governing council member has bypassed established processes to publish and promote a self-authored report—without clear mandate, oversight, or approval—while continuing to attempt to shape public discourse on campus related to Israel. At the same time, students and academics who speak about Israel’s war crimes face scrutiny, discipline, and increasing pressure. This isn’t just about one report.
 It’s about selective enforcement.
 It’s about governance without accountability. And it raises serious questions about whose voices are protected—and whose are suppressed. UofT owes its community answers. Full post on our substack: /pub/sparrows4palestine/p/politically-appointed-uoft-governing

‼️2 DAYS AWAY‼️ On March 25th join the UofT BDS Coalition for the #drophuji campaign launch. As part of the 21st Israeli Apartheid Week, you will organize with your fellow UofT members to end your university’s complicity in apartheid and occupation. UofT shares deep, unique ties with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI); a university which — supportive of many other human rights violations — operates in illegally occupied East Jerusalem. This event and the corresponding campaign work to end the University’s complicity in apartheid and occupation by pressuring the administration to cut institutional ties with HUJI. Get involved! 🗓️ March 25th 🕗 6-8 PM 📍 Wilson Hall 1017