Brandeis University Bans ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ Group Over Open Support for Hamas
“Students who choose to engage in conduct in support of Hamas, or engage in conduct that harasses or threatens violence, whether individually or through organized activity, will be considered to be in violation of the University’s student code of conduct”
Brandeis University in Massachusetts, one of the most prominent Jewish schools in the country, has banned the student group ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ over their open support for Hamas.
This is similar to what Governor Ron DeSantis has done at public colleges in Florida.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
Brandeis U bans Students for Justice in Palestine, says group ‘openly supports Hamas’
Brandeis University is revoking recognition of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, saying the group “openly supports Hamas.”
Brandeis informed the student group on Monday about its decision, which means that the group will no longer receive university funding or be able to hold activities on campus. The group canceled a “Vigil for Palestine” that had been scheduled for Monday night as a result.
“This decision was not made lightly, as Brandeis is dedicated to upholding free speech principles,” the university wrote in its letter, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency obtained.
SJP, which has a national umbrella group and campus chapters across the country, has spoken out in support of Hamas’ invasion of Israel. Brandeis said support for Hamas, which the United States has designated as a foreign terror group, is not protected by the university’s free speech principles.
“Students who choose to engage in conduct in support of Hamas, or engage in conduct that harasses or threatens violence, whether individually or through organized activity, will be considered to be in violation of the University’s student code of conduct,” the letter says. “Students who wish to express their support for the rights of Palestinian civilians may form another student organization, through established procedures, that complies with University policies.”
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has more on this:
“This decision was not made lightly, as Brandeis is dedicated to upholding free speech principles,” the university wrote in its letter, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency obtained.
SJP, which has a national umbrella group and campus chapters across the country, has spoken out in support of Hamas’ invasion of Israel. Brandeis said support for Hamas, which the United States has designated as a foreign terror group, is not protected by the university’s free speech principles.
The decision follows controversy at the university after its student senate voted down a resolution condemning Hamas — a move that others in the university community soundly rejected, including through an open letter that garnered more than 1,000 signatures in one day. The episode attracted national attention, in part because of Brandeis’ history as a non-sectarian school founded by the American Jewish community in the wake of the Holocaust.
It also follows pressure by Jewish groups for universities to withdraw funding for SJP in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, when the group described the attack as “a historic win for Palestinian resistance.” Florida’s public university system banned SJP last month at the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
This statement from the group is laughable.
#BREAKING: @BrandeisU BANS Students for Justice in Palestine, hopefully more colleges follow suit against this terror-supporting organization. pic.twitter.com/IzsBJ5Ejms
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 6, 2023
Students for Justice in Palestine should be banned by EVERY college across America. RT if you agree!https://t.co/bUXmtr5PND
— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) November 6, 2023
Other schools would be wise to do the same.
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Support of Hamas ought to be okay. It’s a university, say what you think. Allow other voices too, is the only restriction.
Argue it out, and both sides trim down their claims to two defensible points of view.
Ad hominem isn’t support of of anything, however.
Support for terrorist organizations is illegal, and these “protests” have turned violent over and over.
Support for terrorist organizations is not illegal, and can’t be illegal.
Violent protests can and should be suppressed with the full force of the law. But peaceful protests can’t be suppressed by government entities. Private entities are a different matter.
It is a violation if you are here on a Visa, including a student visa. 8 USC 1182 (a)(3)(B)(i)(VII). You could be deported if you:
(VII) endorse(s) or espouse(s) terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization;
Liar. It doesn’t say that at all. Had it said that it would be invalid, and you still couldn’t be deported for it; but the fact is it doesn’t say that in the first place. Did you even bother reading the thing before cutting and pasting from it?!
Until reality rears its head.
That doesn’t even make any sense. What “reality” can change the law? The US constitution is the law and it says government entities can’t suppress peaceful protests, and can’t make support for any cause illegal.
Yeah, and then let’s attend a Nazi tailgate!
These people should be expelled, they will continue harassing Jews.
I agree with you in principle. My geography program should have never expelled me for advocating for the perfectly rational alternative hypothesis of a flat earth.
Indeed it shouldn’t have, unless you were disrupting class over this disagreement.
It’s a private university, so there is no right to use it to express views that the administration finds revolting. Generally private universities choose to allow a very wide freedom of speech, but supporting literal nazis at a Jewish university, which was created in the first place for the express purpose of providing a safe space for Jewish students to be educated when they couldn’t get in to most major universities, goes beyond the range of speech that such a university can or should tolerate.
A pox on hypocritical Brandeis. What those dweebs did to Charlton Heston is typical of their ilk and sickening.
Vultures coming home to roost. Leftist Jewish “sensibilities” died in October from a hard dose of reality. Maybe they believe in a kindler and gentler cremation oven if they stay the course.
Something that Americans could do for Israel is buy furnaces suitable for cremation of terrorists. No bodies should be returned to Pales.
I just want the terrorists to know messing with us means they end up in Jahannam and not paradise.
Hopefully the first of many rejections and repudiations for this fascist organization filled with Jew haters.
Somebody there obviously has some amount of common sense. I don’t suspect it will go well for them once the Communists find them.
Saturday Nov. 4 2023 Washington DC mostly peaceful protest sponsors include:
SJP at American University
SJP at Boston University
SJP at Carleton College
SJP at Columbia
SJP at Cornell
SJP at CSU Sacramento
SJP at Denison University
SJP at Drew University
SJP at George Mason University
SJP at Kalamazoo College
SJP at Loyola University Chicago
SJP at Miami University
SJP at Swarthmore
SJP at Montclair
SJP at The New School
SJP at NYU
SJP at St. Olaf College
SJP at Oberlin College
SJP at Oakland University
SJP at Princeton
SJP at Rice
SJP at RISD
SJP at Temple University
SJP at Tufts University
SJP at UCSB
SJP at UCSC
SJP at UNC
SJP at the University of Buffalo
SJP at the University of Detroit Mercy
SJP at the University of Georgia
SJP at the University of Maryland
SJP at UT Dallas
SJP at Vassar
SJP at William and Mary
SJP at William Paterson University
Possibly incomplete list of Students for Justice in Palestine. 224 known sponsors at: https://archive.org/details/from-the-river-to-the-sea
There are plenty of schools out there that refuse to grant charters to groups such as Turning Point USA, YAF and others with conservative viewpoints. They regularly drive them off campus if they just want to give a talk for interested students.
So Boo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo to those SJP kiddies finding out that they can’t always have their way. There are consequences to breaking the school’s rules.(at last)
In a way it’s a tough call. Universities are supposed to welcome free exchange of ideas. The issue here is that SJP and the left in general reject that model. Instead they seek to impose a hecklers veto over speech they dislike. Support for a terrorist organization isn’t within the bounds of civil discourse nor is calling for violence against a particular group. By all means tell us you hate X all day long but if you stray into advocacy to harm X or kill X that’s not acceptable. Calling for your political or debate opposition to be harmed or killed, IMO, automatically forfeits your claim to continue the debate.
Doing it at public colleges is illegal, and if SJP sues it will win, unless Florida has secret evidence that for some reason it is hiding from the public. But Brandeis is a private university, a Jewish university, and shouldn’t have to tolerate literal nazis on campus.
I do not understand why Moslems would want to attend this school because it has a Jewish name.