On Friday, October 10, 2025, McGill professors and librarians voted in favour of a historic resolution to endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel at a Special General Meeting of the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT).

An overwhelming majority of the professors and librarians who are members of MAUT expressed that they fully endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. As a quorum was met, this resolution is now binding.

In joining the academic and cultural boycott of Israel, MAUT joins at least twenty other academic associations in Canada that have passed similar resolutions, as well as countless others around the world.

We are now participating in the long history of boycott and divestment at McGill, which among other examples, was the first university in Canada to fully divest from apartheid South Africa–a fact stated proudly on our university website.

With this vote, the professors and librarians of McGill have taken a strong stand against the genocide in Gaza.

By pledging our support for the boycott of Israeli institutions, MAUT members stand in solidarity with Palestinian colleagues who have called for this boycott for more than twenty years. In doing so, we also honour those colleagues and others murdered during this genocide.

The adoption of the resolution to boycott Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people shows that McGill professors and librarians will not stand by idly as Israel murders and abducts our colleagues in healthcare, libraries, and universities.

MAUT members condemn the destruction of the health system, the total obliteration of academic institutions, the theft and destruction of cultural heritage, and the systematic scholasticide, one element of the genocide that the State of Israel is waging against the Palestinian people.

Our resolution states that we: “call upon McGill’s administration to take all necessary steps to implement the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, while ensuring that the boycott applies to institutional partnerships and agreements, not individual Israeli academics.”

The support of this resolution by professors and librarians at McGill represents the will of a large and growing number of people who are standing up for an end to the genocide in Palestine, an end to the occupation, along with an end to McGill University’s complicity.

McGill professors and librarians vow to keep working within all of our professional associations and unions to hold our complicit academic and cultural institutions accountable.