6. Boycott: End any current or future academic agreements with Israeli institutions, and initiate academic collaboration with Palestinian institutions.
The student encampment that officially launched on May 10th is now entering its fourth week. The encampment joins a vast global movement of hundreds of other student encampments determined to hold their institutions accountable for their participation in apartheid, occupation, and genocide. We urge you to recognize that the encampment is not only an act of protest, but a display of profound desperation, anger, and grief for our people in Palestine — our families, friends, and communities who are being violently and indiscriminately displaced, dispossessed, and murdered.
Since October 2023, Israel's military assault has caused the deaths of over 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the destruction of entire cities. Educational institutions have been deliberately targeted: as of January 17th, not a single university remained standing in the entire Strip. Among the targeted assassinations were three university presidents, 95 deans and professors, 4,327 students, and 231 teachers and administrators.
We share with you the statement issued on May Day by twenty Palestinian universities to the Palestine solidarity encampments:
“In a moment of great darkness, your protests erupt and give hope for humanity that justice is not an abstract concept but a continuous struggle that connects us all. Your values are emancipating the university from structural racism and complicity with power and colonialism… We welcome you at our universities in a liberated Palestine.”
Our objective is unmistakable: we must end the University of Windsor’s complicity (through active and passive means) in Israel’s illegal, genocidal campaign, beyond any doubt.
Thus, the students have been driven to importunity to achieve tangible commitments from you, as an institution. Let it be known, we are deeply committed to these students, and expect you to demonstrate due care, justice, and attention during these negotiations. We urge you to act in good faith by engaging in meaningful, congenial dialogue with the students, especially respecting, protecting, and appreciating them as valued members of our communities.
Remember: if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor (Desmond Tutu, 1931). Inaction is taking a side — the wrong one. We call on you to stand on the right side of history by supporting this movement for the freedom, dignity, and self-determination for Palestinians. Nevertheless, we are watching, and history will judge the moral courage of this institution’s response during an opportunity to become a champion of human rights on a global stage.
We anticipate you will make the right choice in supporting these students in their purpose for Palestinian liberation. We owe it to our colleagues — Palestinian universities, Palestinian students, the Palestinian people — to reform our broken institutions to become beacons of the highest ethical and moral standards that institutions like yourselves strive to model for the youth.
Every university in Palestine will stand tall, free of occupation and oppression, free of ubiquitous checkpoints, and free of daily incursions on campus by Zionist occupation forces in a liberated and free Palestine.
From the river to the sea,
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