Anti-Israel referendum at McGill University angers pro-Zionist group

B’nai Brith Canada urges McGill University in Montreal to withdraw funding from Students’ Society after it votes to adopt “Palestine Solidarity Policy”.

B’nai Brith Canada on Monday urged McGill University in Montreal to withdraw funding from the university’s Students’ Society after it voted to adopt an extreme “Palestine Solidarity Policy,” ignoring its own Judicial Board’s ruling against holding the vote.

The call came after members of the Students’ Society at McGill University (SSMU) were asked to endorse a document accusing Israel of engaging in “settler-colonial apartheid against Palestinians,” and committed SSMU to boycott all entities “complicit” in this activity, among other measures.

“SSMU’s behavior over the past week has not only been antisemitic, but contrary to the rule of law,” said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada. “We call on McGill University to immediately cease funding SSMU until it rescinds this bogus referendum result.”

McGill University has been in the headlines in the past due to antisemitism. In 2017, the then-director of SSMU, Igor Sadikov, tweeted “punch a Zionist today”.

Sadikov later resigned from his post as director of the Students' Society of McGill University, even after the Arts Undergraduate Society at McGill had voted by a majority of 22-16 not to impeach him.