Light grey background with text on the left and a photo on the right. Text reads: new report alert: Palestine at Canadian Universities From an Expert Task Force composed of: Azeezah Kanji (legal academic and journalist; primary researcher and author); reviewers: Idil Abdillahi, Nadia Abu-Zahra, Deborah Cowen, Yavar Hameed, Yasmin Jiwani, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson institutionalcomplicity.ca The photo is of the report cover, which is black in the middle with the title of the report and red at the top and green at the bottom with logos of canadian universities throughout.

Post Date: October 14, 2025

On October 14, 2025, Azeezah Kanji (legal academic and journalist) and an Expert Task Force released a new report, “~~PALESTINE~~ AT CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: How Institutional Complicity in Colonial Genocide is Maintained.” We are pleased to amplify and share this incredibly important work. You can find the original report and additional resources at institutionalcomplicity.ca. We have also provided the PDF of the report here, with permission from the authors.

Executive Summary

This is the first large-scale, cross-country primary documentation of anti-Palestinian repression and racism at Canadian universities since the Gaza genocide’s escalation in October 2023, conducted and reviewed by an Expert Task Force of Palestinian, Indigenous, Black, Muslim, and Jewish scholars and lawyers with expertise in racial and colonial violence. Despite the international legal obligations against genocide and other serious violations, Canadian university complicity in the internationally-recognized genocide of Palestinians has been maintained via investments in military and other corporations (amounting to just under $1 billion), relationships with implicated Israeli institutions, and other modalities.

… To continue reading check out the PDF below or the full Executive Summary at institutionalcomplicity.ca.