In March, I detailed Students for Justice in Palestine’s campaign against academic freedom at the University of Chicago. Since then, the situation has only deteriorated. SJP’s initial anti-Israel boycott targeted courses about Israel that “legitimize” the Jewish state through so-called propaganda. Later, SJP expanded their boycott by demanding that the...
UChicago SJP’s Assault On Academic Freedom
Last month, Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago (SJP UChicago) took to social media to launch an aggressive anti-Israel campaign that targeted academic freedom at the university. The SJP’s divisive statement read, “DON’T TAKE SH*TTY ZIONIST CLASSES” and urged students to boycott courses about Israel, arguing...
State of Failure at the University of Chicago
On May 14th, University of Chicago Friends of Israel (UCFI), a CAMERA-supported EMET for Israel group, hosted Dr. Jonathan Schanzer on campus. Dr. Schanzer is the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury....