On May 15, around 50 protestors affiliated with the Palestinian solidarity encampment occupied the seventh floor of Koerner Library to call on UBC to release a statement within 24 hours responding to the encampment’s demands.
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On May 16, UBC President Benoit-Antoine Bacon released a statement responding to each of the Palestinian solidarity encampment’s demands.
UBC Okanagan community members began an encampment on May 13 at the UBCO Central Courtyard in solidarity with Palestine.
At last night’s Senate meeting, protestors from the Palestinian solidarity encampment held a vigil and read statements calling on UBC to cut ties with Israeli universities.
International students have expressed discontent after the provincial government announced new permanent residence restrictions through the Provincial Nominee Program.
Protestors have started to occupy campus buildings to increase pressure on the university to meet the Palestinian solidarity encampment’s demands.
Emily Carr University students held a protest outside the Chan Centre, which is hosting the university’s graduation ceremony.
UBC President Benoit-Antoine Bacon said UBC’s endowment fund “does not directly own any stocks in the companies identified by the movement.” Companies identified as complicit in Palestinian human rights violations account for about 0.28 per cent of the endowment fund, according to Bacon.
Around 5 p.m. on Sunday, a counter-protest in support of Israel assembled around the Palestinian solidarity encampment's perimeters on MacInnes Field.
The Ubyssey spent a day on MacInnes Field to learn about community members' motivations for attending the encampment.
On April 24, AMS Council met to rescind its investigation into the UBC Social Justice Centre (SJC) and pass its updated respectful workplace (PC1) and sexualized violence (PC2) policies.
Organizers' demands include divesting from companies complicit in Palestinian human rights abuses, boycotting Israeli universities and institutions and publicly condemning what organizers call a genocide in Gaza.
Last night, Senate met to vote on the disestablishment of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and received a presentation on UBC’s $3.8 billion budget for the next academic year.
On Monday night, AMS Council approved a new code change allowing the society to launch an investigation into the Social Justice Centre (SJC) after the group allegedly consulted lawyers without informing the AMS.
Six years since UBC's Accessibility Shuttle launched, students, staff and faculty are weighing in on what's been working and what needs to be improved.
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