SJP leaders have made clear they support the use of violence to achieve their political goals. SJP rallies regularly call for an “intifada,” meaning armed aggression against Israel, and call for Palestine to be free “From the River to the Sea,” which would eliminate the existence of Israel.
"Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an anti-Zionist student organization in America that has been responsible for numerous recent anti-Israel protests on college campuses across the country. The organization and its campus chapters have led the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign at many universities, urging schools to divest from and eliminate financial and programmatic relationships with Israeli corporations and entities.
"In the days following Hamas’ terror attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, SJP chapters on multiple campuses led protests and other actions that openly praised Hamas terrorists and the death of innocent Israeli citizens. People participating in these protests also bullied, intimidated, and harassed Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus, behavior which is consistent with SJP activities more broadly. This led to several American universities suspending or banning SJP and affiliated groups from their campuses. Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, including American Jewish Committee (AJC) have called on more universities to closely scrutinize the actions of SJP chapters and take action if they violate the school’s code of conduct or harass or intimidate other students.
"SJP and its defenders say its actions are protected by free speech and have expressed their opposition to these bans. The actions have led to intense discussion about the limits of student activism, the threat posed to Jewish students by anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activity, and the acceptable limits universities should place on free speech.
"How are SJP’s lies fomenting hate against Israelis and Jews? "
"SJP’s campus messaging relies heavily on the progressive language of social justice, and SJP routinely uses that language to falsely attack Israel based on narratives that intersect with other social justice causes, including anti-Black racism, sexism, and other forms of gender-based discrimination, LGBTQ+ issues, settler-colonialism, and environmental issues.
"Combined, these often generate the claim that intersectional justice requires that students on American college campuses join in condemning Israel and Zionism. The claim itself is naive and dangerous because it fails to register the historical context and present-day realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and shuts down fact-based dialogue around these issues. Claims like these that are clothed in social-progressive language, however, have enabled SJP to enlist a broad swath of American students who know very little about the Middle East to the cause of anti-Israel activism. " . . .
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