Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Students for Justice in Palestine, an American anti-Zionist campus group which advocates for Palestinians and supports a boycott of Israel over its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Community Don’t Let BDS On Campus Scare You Away
In April, Barnard College’s student body and George Washington University’s student government both voted to encourage their respective Boards of Trustees to divest from companies affiliated with Israel. They joined over thirty other campuses who have passed similar resolutions aligned with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The BDS movement was founded in 2005 and…
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Fast Forward SJP At Stony Brook University: ‘We Want Hillel Off This Campus’
A student group at Stony Brook University in New York has garnered criticism after calling for the removal of Hillel from campus and comparing Zionists to “Nazis, white nationalists and KKK members,” the Algemeiner reported Monday. Stony Brook’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter came under fire after one of its members, Rakia Syed,…
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Fast Forward Swarthmore College Offers ‘Alternative Hummus Brand’ After SJP Targets Sabra
(JTA) — Swarthmore College will not discontinue the sale of Sabra hummus on campus, its president announced. Instead, campus dining halls and convenience stores will provide an “alternate hummus brand” on campus. The Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine had presented College President Valerie Smith with a petition signed by hundreds of students requesting that…
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News Divided Barnard College Votes On Israel Divestment — On Eve Of Jewish State’s Independence Day
On Wednesday night, Columbia/Barnard Hillel will host a ceremony marking the transition from Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, to Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Israel Defense Forces veterans will speak about fallen comrades minutes before a big, festive party. Emotions at that moment always run high. This year, though, is sure to be even more…
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Community I Was Publicly Blacklisted By A Shadowy Website For My Views On Israel
Earlier this week, I discovered I’d been added to Canary Mission’s database. Canary Mission is a McCarthy-esque blacklist, a website that collects and publishes information about activists who support Palestinian rights. The site claims to document “people and groups that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses,” with the…
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Community Students For Justice In Palestine Relies On A Network Of Hate
For years, the anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has presented itself as an “independent grassroots organization” that supports justice and human rights while opposing all forms of bigotry. Their recently leaked SJP Divestment Handbook, however, reveals that SJP relies heavily on outside political groups — and often, ones that actively promote hate….
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Community Should BDS Advocates Be Banned From Israel?
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic affairs published a list of 20 organizations that promote a boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign of Israel and whose non-Israeli citizen memebrs will be banned from entering the country. Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment and let us know what you think about the…
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Fast Forward Berkeley Professor Apologizes For Sharing Anti-Semitic Images
A professor at the University of California, Berkeley has apologized for sharing Twitter memes that the university said “crossed the line” into anti-Semitism. Hatem Bazian, a lecturer in the department of ethnic studies, retweeted a status with two offending images. One showed an Orthodox Jewish man smiling and raising his arms above the caption: “I…
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