Andrea Muehlebach

In July 2016, Muehlebach signed a U of T faculty letter titled: “Open letter regarding U of T partnerships” opposing a partnership between U of T and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew U).

The open letter suggested that U of T’s partnership with Hebrew U would cause the university to “passively reproduce…social violence and inequality.”

In October 2014, Muehlebach signed a statement calling for an academic boycott of Israel, pledging “not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not to teach at or to attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel.”

The statement called on Israel to recognize a Palestinian “right of return.”

In July 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Muehlebach signed a letter condemning the Canadian government for focusing “exclusively on denouncing Hamas’s rocket strikes…and uncritically proclaiming Israel’s right to self-defence.”

In March 2016, Muehlebach signed a petition “for the University of Toronto to divest its holdings in companies directly profiting from the ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territories.”

In October 2014, Muehlebach also signed a statement in support of a resolution calling on the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

In June 2016, the AAA announced that the resolution to boycott Israeli universities was defeated but that there were “other actions planned.”

During the 2017 AAA elections, Muehlebach was endorsed as a candidate by the Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions as a result of her support for BDS.