Faculty for Palestine, and the undersigned signatories would like to express our strong and unwavering support for SPHR McGill and other students at McGill University who have been organizing and mobilizing in opposition to the new POLI 339 course. This course, which isscheduled to be held this summer, includes a two-week exchange program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. As student activists have critically and consistently argued, this discriminates against Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students who would be subjected to potential harassment, detention and/ or expulsion by the Israeli border authorities. Moreover, the funding for this course is strongly tied to the violent Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories, and Hebrew University itself is partially situated on illegally obtained land in East Jerusalem.

As strong supporters of the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, we are appalled by the McGill University’s continued support for and engagement in exchanges with Israeli institutions, and by the senior Administration’s refusal to recognize the constitutionally binding vote of the Arts Undergraduate Society Legislative Council NOT to approve the additional fee that will be charged for this course. We stand in solidarity with the students in demanding that McGill University cancel the POLI 339 course.

NOTE: Signatures are organized alphabetically by last name, and are used in a personal capacity. Institutional affiliations are for identification purposes only.

• Nahla Abdo (PhD.), Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario
• Professor Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, PhD, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University
• Malek Abisaab, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Rula Abisaab, Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
• Brian Aboud, Professor, Vanier College, Montreal
• Nadia Abu-Zahra, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
• Greg Albo, professor of Politics, York University, Canada
• Diana Allan, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
• Sima Aprahamian, Ph.D., Research Associate, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
• Sylvat Aziz, Associate Professor, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Beverly Bain, LTA, Women and Gender Studies/Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto (UTM), Ontario
• Abigail B. Bakan, Professor, University of Toronto
• Himani Bannerji, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Roger Beck, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Jody Berland, Professor, York University, Toronto
• Brenna Bhandar, Senior Lecturer, SOAS, University of London, UK
• Davina Bhandar, Centre for Social Sciences, Athabasca University, Alberta
• Naomi Binder Wall, PhD Student, OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Malcolm Blincow, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology (Emeritus), York University, Toronto, Canada
• Lara Braitstein, Associate Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Haim Bresheeth, Professorial Research Associate, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of Oriental and African Studies and  Director of Camera Obscura Films
• Andrew Brook, Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Emeritus, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
• Paul Leduc Browne, D.Phil., Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec en Outaouais
  Gatineau, Québec
• Mike Burke, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Noah Cannon, Master’s Student, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
• Valentina Capurri, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
• Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor, Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal
• Ken Collier, Professor (retired), PhD (Econ), Athabasca University, Mission, British Columbia, Canada
• Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
• Edwin E. Daniel, Ph.D., FRSC, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, McMaster University, Victoria, BC, Canada
• Chandler Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada
• Mary Ellen Davis, Part-Time Faculty, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal Quebec
• Kari Dehli, Professor Emerita, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Wilfrid Denis, Professor emeritus, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Saskatchewan, Canada
• Peter Eglin, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
• Christo El Morr, Associate Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Mohammad Fadel, Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
• Randa Farah, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
• Sue Ferguson, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario
• Peter Fitting, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada
• Mireya Folch-Serra, Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
• Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada
• Dina Georgis, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
• Peter Gose, Full Professor of Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
• Kevin A. Gould, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
• Jesse Greener, professeur agrégé Université Laval, Québec., QC
• Nadia Habib, Contract Faculty, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Judy Haiven, Retired professor, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada
• Wael Hallaq, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
• rosalind hampton, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto
• Larry Hannant, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
• Michelle Hartman, Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
• Sumi Hasegawa, Retired Faculty Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, QC., Canada
• David Heap, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• Adrienne Hurley, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Canada