Report Suggests ‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’ has Crucial Role in Rise of Campus Antisemitism

Report Suggests ‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’ has Crucial Role in Rise of Campus Antisemitism

This ideology is a poison on college campuses. It was bad enough when it was just students. Now the faculty at some places is getting involved.

The Jewish Journal reports:

Report: Faculty for Justice in Palestine “Pivotal” in Rise of Campus Antisemitism

A new report released by the AMCHA Initiative on Sept. 26 concluded that Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) “played a pivotal role in the unprecedented explosion of anti-Israel unrest and antisemitism that continues to grip many U.S. campuses.”

The report investigated “more than 100 schools most popular with Jewish students from Oct. 7, 2023 to June 30, 2024” and found that FJP was established on 55% of these campuses and that many of them “were directly involved with anti-Zionist student organizations and academic departments in organizing events and authoring statements.” “Nearly 70% of FJP chapters cosponsored events and/or co-authored statements with one or more student organizations, a collaboration that not only provided academic legitimacy to the student organizations and helped propel their anti-Zionist activism, but also assisted the FJP groups in spreading their own messaging among student activists,” the report stated. “In addition, more than one-quarter (26%) of FJP groups cosponsored events and/or co-authored statements with academic departments, which provided additional institutional approval and support for FJP’s activism.”

The report also found that schools with an FJP chapter likely had anti-Israel protest activity that lasted 2.5 times longer and 9.5 times more days those that didn’t have an FJP chapter. In schools with FJP chapters, encampments were likely to last 4.7 times more days; student governments at schools with FJP chapters were 4.9 times more likely to pass a resolution calling for their schools to divest from companies that conduct business with Israel.

Notably, the report found that “schools with an FJP group were 7.3 times more likely to have incidents involving physical violence targeting Jews than schools without an FJP group” and were also “3.4 times more likely to have incidents involving death threats or threats of physical harm targeting Jews.”

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