BOSTON, February 28th, 2023 – In the Spring term, a disinformation campaign attempts to take root on college and university campuses. Widely advertised as “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW), the effort promoted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), and Palestinian Societies (PalSocs) spread the...
Anti-Jewish Hate Fills Rutgers University Event on Israel
On November 18th, 2022, the Rutgers New Brunswick chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Endowment Justice Collective (EJC) hosted a panel entitled “Divestment From Israeli Apartheid At The University Level.” The event was moderated by Rutgers post-graduate student Abire Sabbagh, with a history of promoting BDS...
At Oberlin, Jewish Studies Professors Are Part of the Problem
Oberlin College has a long-standing antisemitism and anti-Zionism problem that has been previously documented on CAMERA’s In Focus blog, and elsewhere as well. The school’s President, Carmen Twillie Ambar, has long sought to hide the school’s problem behind its Jewish Studies program and kosher dining facilities. In 2018, after an...
Statement: A Response to Berkeley School of Law Dean Chemerinsky
Berkeley Law Dean Chemerinsky claims that there are no “Jewish-free zones” at the university because the majority of student groups have not changed their bylaws to exclude Zionist speakers. If the Berkeley Law administration considers the fact that “only” some student organizations currently have a policy of excluding Jews as...
Statement: A Response to UVM President Garimella
University of Vermont President Suresh Garimella’s response to the opening of a Department of Education investigation shows a refusal to take seriously the concerns of Jewish students. The statement gaslights the Jewish community by claiming that the university, not the Jewish community, is the victim in this situation. While it...
Why a Definition of Antisemitism Matters on College Campuses
With antisemitism on the rise, the need to adopt a universal definition of antisemitism is more crucial than ever. The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been adopted by 34 countries, various influential organisations such as the European Union’s Parliament, and numerous universities such as Cambridge University. In the United Kingdom...
BDS and the refusal to see antisemitism in UK Palestinian Societies
Earlier this term, KCL Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-hosted an event with 17 other Palestinian student societies across the UK featuring the co-founder of the anti-Israeli Boycott Sanction and Divest (BDS) campaign, Omar Barghouti. Barghouti co-founded the campaign in 2005. While BDS officially claims to oppose “anti-Jewish racism”, the...
Students for Justice in Palestine’s Land Day Lies
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) constitute the most influential university branch of the anti-Israel movement. Despite their banal sloganeering and ludicrous propaganda, SJP keeps anti-Zionism in vogue with every cycle of impressionable college students eager to fight social injustice. Every so often, however, the fixture of campus activism breaks...