Canadian universities are, and always have been, part of Canada’s settler colonial project. Therefore, Canadian university complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime, and ongoing genocide — referred to collectively in this report as Israel’s Crimes — should come as no surprise.
This report exposes Canadian university complicity through four themes: investments, donor funds, partnerships, and anti-Palestinian racism.
Check out the full report (PDF and text-only versions) at tr.ee/univ
Over 200 pages of detailed work, the report looks at complicity at around 100 Canadian universities through the four themes.
This work would not have been possible without amazing volunteers, as well as collaboration with faculty and student groups. We want to thank everyone who contributed to this project. We look forward to ongoing collaboration.
We also thank an anonymous donor who supported this work. We hope if you like it, and find it useful, you can donate to our work, so we can continue to understand projects such as this.
A glimpse into several report highlights:
We found detailed financial statements for 20 universities. All included investments in companies complicit in Israel’s Crimes. The estimated total of these investments is over $1.6 billion. The top 5 complicit universities, based on % of total portfolio analyzed, were:
- McMaster University: 20.9%
- Western University: 17.5%
- Queen’s University: 16.8% (pooled investments) and 14.9% (endowment funds)
- University of Waterloo: 13.5% (endowment funds)
- University of Winnipeg Foundation: 13.4%
9 universities reported investments in Israeli companies. For those that provided dollar values, the top 5 Israeli companies universities were invested in are:
- Bank Leumi le Israel: $4,129,705
- Cellebrite Ltd: $1,691,894
- Teva Pharmaceuticals: $1,486,623
- Bank Hapoalim: $774,323
- Phoenix Financial: $284,695
Also, we identified $188.8 million worth of funding from 27 pro-Israel donors between 2000 and 2025.
The top 5 recipients and donors were:
Recipients
- McGill University: $39,306,285 (+ 7,897,578 to McGill Health Centres)
- University Of Toronto: $34,208,747 (+2,902,200 to Medical School Bursaries)
- University Of Calgary: $12,947,656
- St. Francis Xavier University $9,498,120
- University Of Waterloo $8,746,050
Donors
- United Jewish Appeal Of Greater Toronto: $49,887,721
- Jewish Community Foundation Of Montreal: $41,607,425
- The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation: $37,127,739
- The Azrieli Foundation: $34,451,111
- Jewish Foundation Of Greater Toronto: $21,996,819
Read the full report, and stay tuned for more ways to engage with the report. We also very much welcome your ideas of how you can use the report.
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