Montreal, September 24th, 2025

In a context of well-documented apartheid and genocide, our city, whose citizens value progressivism, equality, leadership, and respect for the rule of law, has a moral responsibility to ensure that its actions, statements, municipal contracts, pension funds, and the taxes we entrust to them are not actively or passively supporting the horrors currently being perpetrated by Israel against the people of Palestine, in line with the example set by municipalities such as Saint-Germain-de-Kamouraska in Quebec, Burnaby in Canada, or worldwide like Barcelona, Liège, Oslo, Oxford, and Bristol, and also in line with Montreal's history of international solidarity, as demonstrated by Mayor Jean Doré's divestment from apartheid South Africa in 1989.

THE PLEDGE FOR A MONTREAL AGAINST APARTHEID AND GENOCIDE

We affirm our commitment to justice, freedom, and equality for the people of Palestine and all oppressed peoples;

We oppose all forms of violence, racism, intolerance, discrimination, and oppression;

We call on the city of Montreal to: Cut its institutional ties with the Israeli government and its cities, Divest municipal contracts and pension funds from the state of Israel, its institutions, its companies, and international companies that contribute to the perpetuation of ongoing Israeli apartheid and genocide,

Boycott Israeli sports, academic, and cultural representatives, Provide a safe and dignified welcome to Palestinian refugees and provide care and social services to Palestinians in need, Call on the Canadian government to impose a full and immediate embargo on

Israel, and end all military trade with Israel via the US loophole;

We declare ourselves a community against apartheid and genocide and, to that end, We solemnly commit to joining forces with others working to end all support for Israel's apartheid and genocidal regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation.