Indiana U Study Finds Anti-Israel Activism is ‘Highly Coordinated’
“The most frequent external collaborator is the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which frequently partners with National SJP and other campus groups”
We probably didn’t need a study to know this, but confirmation is a good thing.
The College Fix reports:
Anti-Israel activism is ‘highly coordinated,’ Indiana University study concludes
Anti-Israel activism is “highly coordinated” through one main group, an Indiana University study concluded. One of the co-authors told The College Fix that campuses which combat hostility can see less of it, but there can also be backlash.
The “central node” is the national Students for Justice in Palestine, “which functions as a strategic and narrative hub,” Professor Günther Jikeli wrote in the 61-page report. Jikeli leads the university’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and is a recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and Tel Aviv University.
The researchers also wrote in their report that criticism of Israel is not always the same as antisemitism. “While political debate and student activism are vital to academic freedom, the rhetoric and actions of some groups now frequently cross the line into antisemitism, creating a hostile climate for many Jewish students and faculty,” the report stated. Many of the posts reflect Hamas messaging, the study alleges.
“Our analysis focuses on documented antisemitic incidents and on online activity where anti-Israel activism intersects with the glorification of violence and the amplification of extremist narratives,” the authors wrote in an introductory note.
However, many anti-Israel groups promote violence, the report alleges.
“As soon as October 8, 2023, National SJP called for a nationwide ‘Day of Resistance’ and circulated organizing toolkits that framed the violence as an act of legitimate liberation,” Jikeli wrote in his report along with his colleague Daniel Miehling.
The institute, along with IU’s Social Media & Hate Research Lab, analyzed “a comprehensive dataset—including nearly 10,000 recorded antisemitic incidents, over 1,000 anti-Israel campus groups, and more than 76,000 Instagram posts,” to determine the network of influence.
The researchers were able to construct the network by reviewing Instagram posts with tagged collaborators. “The most frequent external collaborator is the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which frequently partners with National SJP and other campus groups,” the authors wrote.
Other “top collaborators” include Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, and DISSENTERS.
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hurry send them food and money so they can continue their anti american /semetic agenda…united nations
I’ve asked this before, when is Students for Justice in Palestine going to be designated a terrorist supporting group?
It should have happened years ago.
So now we know who is in charge of the US campus protests, but who is behind them? Because it’s clear that there has been a coordinated effort across the West, not just America. In hindsight, October 7 was a hostage-taking raid, meant to incite retaliation, and intended as the opening salvo of a serious public relations realignment. Which has been successful.
And our spoiled college students are not at all repulsed that Hamas got carried away with the killing and the blood and the ferocity. Apparently, the little snowflakes that require safe spaces from disturbing ideas are just fine with rape and baby killing if the cause is just. And they are convinced that the Palestinian cause is just.
There is somebody beyond these two groups plotting behind the scenes. Somebody is paying the bills and greasing the way forward.