An Ontario university is the first major educational institution in Canada to reach an agreement with on-campus protestors and vows not to invest in companies benefitting from the war in Gaza.
Administrators and encampment organizers at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa said Monday that they had reached an agreement, bringing the campus protests against investments connected to Israel's military to an end.
The agreement states that while the university “is not aware of investments in any companies that are benefiting" from the ongoing war in Gaza, it will establish a working group to review best practices and make recommendations about any future investments with “particular attention to companies involved in arms manufacturing and delivery and/or benefitting from military action in Palestine.”
The university has also committed to funding three undergraduate scholarships for Palestinians displaced by the war, beginning in the fall semester. The school has also stated that any students and faculty who participated in the encampment will be protected from "academic and/or employment-based retaliation."
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