Canadian universities should also be in the Francesca Albaniz report Israel’s conflict and the two

“Universities continue all over the world, under the guise of the neutrality of research, to take advantage of the (Israeli) economy that is now working in setting genocide. In fact, structurally depends on settlement colonial cooperation and financing.”

This is what Franceska Albans, the United Nations Special Representative, wrote in its latest report “From the economy of the occupation to the economy of genocide”Who documents the constituents of the continuous genocide of Israel in Gaza and abroad. It prompted its issuance to the ruling regime of the United States Penalties against Albaniz In a step, the Italian legal researcher described it as “obscene” and “mafia intimidation tactics.”

The report reveals how universities not only invest their endowments in companies related to the war machine in Israel, but also participate in direct research or support initiatives that contribute to this. Not only is the cursed indictment of the complicity of the academic circles of genocide, but also a warning to the administrations of universities and academics who bear a legal responsibility.

In Israel, Albaniz, the specialties of traditional humanities such as law, archaeology, and Middle East studies note the history of Nakba mainly, which is reformulated through colonial narratives that erase Palestinian history and give legitimacy to the state of apartheid that has moved to what it describes as a genetic machine. Likewise, STEM specializations are involved in open cooperation with military industrial companies, such as Elbit Systems, Ibsospace Industries, IBM and Lockheed Martin, to facilitate research and development.

In the United States, Albaniz is written, research is funded by the Israeli Ministry of Defense and managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with various military applications, including monitoring drones.

In the United Kingdom, it highlights that Edinburgh University has 2.5 percent of its invested flames in companies participating in the Israeli military industrial complex. It also has partnerships with Ben Gurion University and with companies that support Israeli military operations.

While Canadian institutions do not appear in the Albaniz report, they can easily enable them, we should discuss this.

The leading school in Canada, the University of Toronto (UOFT), where one knows and another is a graduate, is a particularly prominent example.

Over the past 12 years, UOFT has experienced Israeli institutions on snowball, and extends across the fields of humanities to cybersecurity. It also includes the Zionist donors (both individuals and groups), and many of them have relations with complicit companies and Israeli institutions, and they have themselves Actively With the practices of the university’s employment somewhat, the blame was attracted from the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

This phenomenon must be understood in the context of dismantling public higher education, which compels universities to search for private sources of financing and universities open to donors’ intervention.

After calls for cutting such relations intensified amid genocide, UOFT doubled over the past year, as it announces partnerships related to artificial intelligence with the University of Technion at Haifa, and joint calls to proposals with various Israeli universities, and student exchange programs in Israel.

UOFT also continues to collect donations for “archaeology in Israel Trust”, which was created to provide “a major contribution to archaeology in Israel” – a discipline that historically focused on legitimacy on Israeli expropriation of the Palestinian people. It also opened a new laboratory to study the global anti -Semitism, with funding from the coalition at the University of Toronto Hebro in Jerusalem and Innovation.

In addition to institutional partnerships, the UOFT Asset Company (UTAM), which runs university gifts, has direct links with many companies that, according to the dairy report, in the genocide in Palestine, including Airbnb, ABPHABT Inc Holdings, Caterpillar, Elbilar, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir.

A 2024 It was found that 55 of these companies operate “in the defense, weapons and military space sectors”, and at least 12 investment managers who were contracted in UTAM 44 who made investments totaling at least $ 3.95 billion in Canadian dollars ($ 2.88 billion) in 11 companies expanding in Pantain in Pantain. Land.

Moreover, 17 of the investment managers contracted in UTAM are 44 responsible for managing about $ 15.79 billion ($ 11.53 billion) of the assets invested in 34 companies set by the American Friends Service Committee as benefiting from the continuous genocide in Gaza.

Uoft is not unique among Canadian universities in this regard. According to a report on the university’s abstraction, the Western University also promotes continuous partnerships with Ben Gurion University and invests more than 16 million Canadian dollars ($ 11.6 million) in military contractors and about $ 50 million ($ 36.5) in companies is held directly in the occupation of Bazin’s bouncies. Lockheed Martin list, as well as others included by Albanians such as Chevron, Books, Airbnb, and Microsoft.

McChel University, another Canadian university, in Lockheed Martin, as well as prominent military companies such as Airbus, Bay, has invested in the systems, travel, and Thales, which was also accused of providing weapons and components to Israel.

In the context of the continuous genocide, students, employees and faculty members in such colluding universities – including in all institutions of each of our institutions – demand to boycott and strip their universities from Israel and companies that benefit from their war.

They are not only explicitly to the right according to international law, but in reality they clarify the basic legal responsibility and requirements that all corporate entities bear.

However, to raise this request, they are Exposed To all kinds of discipline and punishment.

What the Albaniz report puts is that university directors – like other executives – are subject to, frankly, they should be afraid to blame under international law.

She writes: “Companies must respect human rights even if the country in which it works is no, and it may be responsible even if they have complied with the local laws in which they work. In other words, compliance with local laws does not prevent/not in defense of responsibility or responsibility.”

This means that those who manage universities in Canada and around the world who refused to withdraw and separate Israel and instead focused their attention on the organization of students who are fighting for this purpose they themselves are responsible for their complicity in genocide, according to international law.

We were unable to put it more strongly or briefly than the Albanians themselves: “The corporate sector, including executives, must be objected to as a necessary step towards ending the genocide and dismantling the global system of racist capitalism that supports it.”

Our collective responsibility is to ensure that it occurs in universities as well.

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