Professors at McGill join students and other universities in Canada to call the university administration to cut ties with Israeli academic and cultural institutions.
McGill University’s biggest teachers’ association is endorsing a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions.
Last Friday, over 100 members of the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT) showed up at a special meeting, met quorum, and overwhelmingly voted in favour of the boycott.
A number of professors at the meeting emphasized that the boycott is not an individual one but rather a cultural and academic one that asks McGill to cut ties with Israeli Universities. Twelve members from MAUT submitted this as a resolution to the association a few weeks ago. Michelle Hartman, a member of the MAUT and a professor at the university, said she has not seen anything like this happen in her 20 years at McGill.
“The academic and cultural boycott is about pressuring Israeli institutions to pressure their own state. We won’t cooperate with those institutions until those institutions stand up and stop themselves collaborating and being complicit with the genocide and with the occupation,” said Hartman, adding that she sees “a rising interest in the professorial core in engaging more as a collective body and the issues that are most important in the world.”
During the special meeting, a few faculty members who didn’t support the resolution stormed out of the room, shouting, “We are leaving so that you don’t have a quorum,” according to Hartman.
Eight people voted no, and 104 voted yes. (more...)
McGill Faculty Wins Unprecedented Vote to Boycott Israeli Institutions
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