Tag: Students for Justice in Palestine
Jewish students at the University of Maryland ‘watching our backs a lot’
National discussions about campus antisemitism since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel have largely overlooked one of the nation’s largest Jewish student populations: the University of Maryland, College Park.
The 1,340-acre campus,...
Something very wrong from the top on down
There is a deep, distressing and rapidly metastasizing rot within American society. And it was profoundly on display last week at the hearing on the House Committee on Education & the Workforce.
Harvard president Claudine...
Law students at UC Berkeley declare ‘victory’ for BDS
A group of anti-Israel law students at the University of California, Berkeley, are celebrating what they are calling a “victory” on campus after convincing a number of other student groups to support the BDS...
SJP at NYU law school defends terror, accuses Israel of ‘Zionist grip on media’
Eleven student groups signed a statement by the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at New York University School of Law that voiced support for Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israelis and touted anti-Israel conspiracy...
New report exposes SJP’s methods of intimidating Jewish students at Cornell
Canary Mission released a new report that documents and exposes Students for Justice in Palestine at Cornell University (SJP Cornell) and its efforts to “create an environment hostile for Jews on campus.”
The 25-page report highlighted the...
Pro-Israel groups see more hostile campuses fueled by ‘woke’ ideology, anti-Zionist faculty
Pro-Israel groups working on campus agree that the situation for Jewish students is growing steadily worse. Just this fall, anti-Semitic incidents erupted at campuses across the country—from vandals desecrating a Torah scroll at George Washington University...
UConn Hillel accused of ‘Islamophobia’ by newspaper after countering SJP rally
University of Connecticut (UConn) Hillel is defending its decision to peacefully table near a Nov. 2 pro-Palestinian rally held by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) after being accused of Islamophobia by the editorial...
Academic departments need to steer clear of activism against Israel
The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident this past spring as Hamas showered Israeli population centers with more than 4,000 rockets and mortars. Instead of denouncing genocidal aggression on...
New report finds ‘disturbing’ levels of anti-Semitic activity at University of Illinois Chicago
Last week, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) welcomed students back to campus. But how welcome can the university’s Jewish population feel sharing a campus with a student group whose members have a long history...
Alumni group condemns anti-Israel comments by Rutgers University clubs
An organization representing more than 10,000 alumni around the United States has denounced a recent anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statement by Rutgers University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the group Rutgers Mutual Aid,...