Find information about the SFU Student Strike for Palestine: contact information, events, our mission/demands, information about SFU's complicity in the genocide in Palestine.

Contact

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Events

EventDate & TimeLocation
TablingThurs. Oct 31st, 12:PMTBD
Sit-inFri. Nov 1st, 1:00PMAQ Hallway near Physics

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Last updated Oct 25th, 2024.

Our Demands

  1. SFU must divest from all Israeli arms and disclose its entire investment portfolio;

  2. SFU must end its policy of repressing pro-Palestinian liberation voices and organizing effort on campus;

  3. SFU to condemn the ongoing slaughter, displacement, and genocide of Palestinians done by Israel and its antagonistic escalation including assassinating political leaders and military invasion;

  4. SFU must boycott all Israeli universities.

SUBJECT TO CHANGE: Last updated Oct. 15, 2024

Information & Resources

On this page:

  1. Why divest SFU? Public information about SFU's finances, board members, and actions.

  2. Student Strike for Palestine: Open Letter, Program for a Student Strike

Why divest SFU?

Summarized from our detailed notes on SFU’s investments (and board members), derived from SFU’s March 2024 Asset Report. SUBJECT TO CHANGE: Last updated Oct. 15, 2024.

In their March 2024 report on assets, SFU reports millions of dollars invested in defense companies (manufacturers of military equipment and parts) such as BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, CAE Inc., and more who are all directly involved in the genocide in Palestine.These firms and others help Israel with everything from AI tools to aircraft.

BAE Systems, for example, is the seventh largest war contractor globally with 97% of its revenue coming from military equipment. They make 13-15% of the parts for the F-35 stealth combat jets used in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

The Student Strike for Palestine Movement

In this Open Letter, the following Program for a Student Strike is outlined:

  1. UNITE TO STRIKE!
    It’s been nearly a year and the genocide in Gaza continues. The Canadian government is complicit, Canadian corporations are complicit and Canadian universities are complicit. They have proven that they won’t listen unless we make them listen. This fall, we call on all student unions and pro-Palestinian groups to unite and organize a student strike to shutdown the campuses.

  2. END THE SUPPORT FOR THE ZIONIST WAR MACHINE!
    All of the institutions of Canadian capitalism are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians. Canadian universities are invested in companies involved in the Israeli military and settlements. But this is just a small element. The Canadian government has been a stalwart supporter of Israel since day one economically, politically, diplomatically and militarily. We fight to end any and all support for the Zionist war machine.

  3. END THE REPRESSION OF THE PALESTINE MOVEMENT!
    The ruling class in Canada, including all major political parties have united to smear, slander and repress the Palestine movement. False allegations of anti-semitism, combined with arrests, fines and academic punitive measures have been meted out against pro-palestinian activists. We fight for the freedom to speak out against and to protest this genocide. We will fight any and all measures put in place to silence us.

  4. END THE GENOCIDE!
    The Zionists are trying to finish what they started 76 years ago. They have made this abundantly clear in words and in deeds. Genocide is not something that happened once long ago. It is occurring right now before our very eyes. We fight to end the genocide and liberate the Palestinians.