On October 10, 2025, the Teaching Assistants’ Union of Memorial University of Newfoundland (TAUMUN) issued a release co-signed by President Kieran Knoll and Graduate Students’ Union Executive Director of Communications Gaayathri Sukantha Murugan. The release, titled “Statement on the Illegal Interception & Abduction of Canadian Peace Activists,” expressed solidarity with former TAUMUN and current GSU member Sadie Mees, MUN Alumni Nikita Stapleton and Devoney Ellis, and the humanitarian aid mission of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
TAUMUN stated that it “vehemently condemns the illegal abduction of peace activists on the Conscience and other Freedom Flotilla vessels.” It also said it recognizes the “ongoing scholasticide” in Palestine and observes the “illegal and targeted” murder of Palestinian professional labourers, including those in the medical, journalism, and aid work fields.
The union further called on Memorial University’s leadership to immediately divest the more than $14 million invested in weapons manufacturing companies. “The labour, work, and knowledge cultivated within MUN that we contribute to our institution must be liberated from the complicity of the Palestinian Genocide,” TAUMUN stated.
View the release below:
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