The Azrieli Foundation and its affiliated real estate corporate entities have faced intense public scrutiny and protests from activist groups regarding their alleged economic and financial ties to infrastructure projects in the West Bank and historic allocations involving Israeli institutions. Pro-Palestinian coalition campaigns have pressured various cultural and artistic organizations in Canada to sever funding partnerships with the foundation, while foundation leadership has strongly rejected these characterizations, maintaining that the charitable foundation operates independently from commercial corporate structures and condemning misrepresentations of its philanthropic mission.