SJP Tag

“Something is very strange about what’s going on at Cornell” as to Anti-Israel Activism

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2024 18 Comments

My interview on Brian Kilmeade's radio show: "something is very strange about what's going on at Cornell. It's too highly organized, too seemingly manipulated to be purely organic student protests on campus."...

Read More

SJP Chapter at Mount Holyoke College Accused Of Promoting Violence to ‘Liberate Palestine’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 01, 2024 10 Comments

"Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine"...

Read More

Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia U. Panics Over House Investigation Into Campus Antisemitism

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 25, 2024 6 Comments

“Columbia Wi-Fi & services are being surveilled in a McCarthyite program to provide evidence for the House committee investigation”...

Read More

Organization Files Second Free Speech Complaint Against UNC Students for Justice in Palestine

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 27, 2024 6 Comments

"Up to this point, UNC has rewarded the SJP chapter by giving them exactly what they wanted — letting them carry out a heckler’s veto by shouting down a speaker, violating UNC policy and state law, and then walking out."...

Read More

Students for Justice in Palestine at Swarthmore Projected Numerous Antisemitic Phrases on Campus Building

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 27, 2024 7 Comments

"The anti-Israel statements were projected on Clothier Hall on the college campus in Pennsylvania."...

Read More

Rutgers U. Student Govt. Gave $20K to Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter for Events Over Past Year

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2024 1 Comment

"Student groups should ideally not be hate groups, and SJP should be no different."...

Read More

Masked Members of Students for Justice in Palestine Issue Demands at Rutgers University

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 19, 2024 12 Comments

"listed new demands for a Rutgers University campus during a press conference Wednesday, which included an order for the school to cut ties with Israel"...

Read More

U. Penn President: On Second Thought, Campus Calls for Genocide Against Jews Would Be “Harassment or Intimidation”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2023 38 Comments

Backtracks on refusal to answer yesterday: "I want to be clear, a call for genocide of Jewish people is threatening ...

Read More

“Cornell did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Jacobson’s call to evaluate antisemitism on campus”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 25, 2023 17 Comments

"I renew my call for the Board of Trustees to take action to examine the antisemitism problem on campus and the connection to the 'intersectional' racialist 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' advocacy and programming which isolates and marginalizes Jews."...

Read More

Nine U. California-Berkeley Law Student Orgs Adopt Pro-BDS Pledge to Not Host Zionist, Pro-Israel Speakers

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 29, 2022 11 Comments

"...

Read More

Human Rights Group Demands U Mass Boston Take Action After Students For Justice In Palestine Attack On Pro-Israel Christian

Posted by Johanna Markind on November 07, 2021 7 Comments

"Mr. Van Zile was intimidated, harassed, and assaulted by rally participants who turned on him after another participant identified him as a “rabid Zionist,” based on his knowledge of Mr. Van Zile’s editorials supporting Israel and criticizing its detractors. Mr. Van Zile informs us that...

Read More

Pro-Israel Christian Harassed At UMass-Boston ‘Students For Justice In Palestine’ Rally

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on July 19, 2021 4 Comments

Boston branches of Students for Justice in Palestine recently harrassed and tried to intimidate a writer who showed up to report on their annual anti-Israel hate-fest.

Read More

Yale Student Government Passes Vile Anti-Israel Resolution (UPDATE: Yale Student Responds to LIF Coverage, Yale Professor Condemns Student Govt in Op-Ed)

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on July 05, 2021 11 Comments

In an age when nearly everyone appears keen to publicly prove their 'woke' credentials, students at Yale University refuse to be outdone. The quickest way to demonstrate your anti-racist bonafides on campus? Self-satisfied student government "resolutions" condemning only the Jewish State.

Read More

Tufts U Anti-Israel Group Launches Intimidation Vendetta Against Jewish Student Government Officer (UPDATE: Anti-Israel Students Retract Complaints After Widespread Backlash)

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on February 25, 2021 7 Comments

Over the years, Legal Insurrection has covered Tufts University and its many controversies time and time again. This time, Tufts' radical anti-Israel student group, Students for Justice in Palestine, may have outdone them all— with its jaw-dropping, months-long campaign to rid Tufts student government of an elected officer for the simple fact of his Jewish Zionist identity.

Read More

Northeastern U ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ Promotes Terrorist PFLP, Doubles Down After Backlash

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on January 31, 2021 17 Comments

The Northeastern University branch of Students for Justice In Palestine recently held an event glorifying the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist organization designated by the U.S. goverment as a foreign terrorist group. The PFLP committed some of the most infamous and deadly attacks targeting Israel and Jews. As described below, after a backlash SJP doubled down..

Read More

Tufts U Condemns Student Government Resolution Blaming Israel For U.S. Police Violence

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on January 27, 2021 16 Comments

The Tufts University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has proven itself to be one of the strongest advocates of "Deadly Exchange," a false campaign started by anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace, claiming that Israel and American Jewish groups are responsible for alleged unlawful police violence in the U.S. against minority communities. Tufts SJP reframed this campaign by claiming Israel directly threatens the "safety" of students by "militarizing" and training American campus police to be racist.

Read More

NYU Student Reaches Landmark Settlement with University in Campus Anti-Semitism Lawsuit

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on October 08, 2020 14 Comments

Almost a year after embarking on her legal battle, NYU graduate Adela Cojab and her lawyers have won an important victory in the fight for Jewish civil rights on college campuses.

Read More

Investigation: How Anti-Israel Activists Are Hijacking The Coronavirus Crisis And Turning It Against Israel

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on April 09, 2020 5 Comments

We have written a lot about how anti-Israel activists routinely hijack causes, events, and crises unrelated to Israel, using "intersectional" theory to turn those issues against the Jewish state. That phenomenon is playing out again with the coronavirus pandemic, providing the 'usual suspects' with yet another issue to exploit.

Read More