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A David Horowitz Freedom Center report.
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1. Brooklyn College (CUNY)
2. San Diego State University
3. San Francisco State University
4. Tufts University
5. University of California Berkeley
6. University of California Irvine
7. University of California Los Angeles
8. University of Chicago
9. University of Tennessee Knoxville
10. Vassar College
(Note: the schools are listed in alphabetical order)
Introduction:
Across America college campuses are being flooded with pro-terrorist propaganda by groups supported by college administrators and student funds. These groups are led by Students for Justice in Palestine but they include the broad coalitions of the left which have become the breeding grounds for a new anti-Semitism. Boycott, Divest and Sanctions resolutions targeting the state of Israel for destruction are passed to chants of “Allahu Ahkbar,” while Jewish students are the targets of verbal and physical harassments which have reached epidemic proportions. This is a report on the 10 schools most supportive of the efforts of Students for Justice in Palestine and its allies, to demonize the state of Israel and bring about its destruction.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) portrays itself as a typical student organization and multicultural group advocating for “social justice” in the Middle East, but this image is a cleverly constructed disguise. Students for Justice in Palestine is not concerned about justice in Palestine where the Hamas regime steals hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid and uses it to dig terror tunnels whose only purpose is to murder Jews. In truth, SJP is a pro-terror organization that is funded by anti-Israel Hamas terrorists for the purpose of destroying Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, and committing genocide against its Jewish population as prescribed in the Hamas charter.
SJP is the chief promoter of the Hamas-inspired and funded Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, a genocidal effort to strangle Israel’s democracy and make it vulnerable to its enemies. Among SJP’s many activities in the service of Hamas is its sponsorship of “Israeli Apartheid” weeks featuring Hamas and BDS supporters as campus speakers and advancing the false claim that Israel is a racist state like South Africa and deserves to be destroyed. As part of the “Israeli Apartheid” hate weeks, SJP constructs “apartheid walls” in campus quads. These walls feature pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic propaganda, and celebrate notorious terrorists like Hamas-founder Sheik Yassin, who ordered the murder of nearly 400 Jews before his death. SJP creates mock checkpoints and die-ins that obstruct student movements on campus, disrupts pro-Israel campus events, and has physically assaulted Jewish students. In these activities, SJP functions as the most prominent pro-terrorist, anti-Jewish organization in America, and provides a key recruiting tool for terrorists in the Middle East who are seeking to obliterate the only democracy in the Middle East and its Jews.
SJP’s pro-terror campaign is guided and funded through a Hamas front called American Muslims for Palestine, whose principals were defendants in the Holy Land Foundation trial in which they were found to be funneling charitable contributions to Hamas. In recent testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Jonathan Schanzer, who worked as a terrorism finance analyst for the United States Department of the Treasury from 2004-2007, and now serves as the Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), described how Hamas funnels large sums of money and provides material assistance to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) through a Hamas front group called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) for the purpose of promoting BDS campaigns on American campuses.
AMP was created by Hatem Bazian, a pro-terrorist professor at UC Berkeley who is also the co-founder of SJP. Schanzer describes AMP as “arguably the most important sponsor and organizer for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which is the most visible arm of the BDS campaign on campuses in the United States.” He details how AMP “provides speakers, training, printed materials, a so-called ‘Apartheid Wall,’ and grants to SJP activists” and “even has a campus coordinator on staff whose job is to work directly with SJP and other pro-BDS campus groups across the country.” Furthermore, “according to an email it sent to subscribers, AMP spent $100,000 on campus activities in 2014 alone.”
The following report describes the typical activities of SJP, which is officially recognized and financially supported by its host universities. Thus the 10 universities singled out in this report (the total number hosting SJP and related organizations is well over 100) are supporting an anti-Semitic, pro-terror campaign, which is hostile not only to Israel and its Jews but to the United States of America as well. This presence of a genocidal, terrorist support movement on elite campuses across America is probably the most under-reported story of our times.
The Top Ten Schools Supporting Terrorists
Brooklyn College:
Brooklyn College, one of several schools making up the City University of New York (CUNY) system, is home to one of the most active and extreme SJP chapters in the nation. Brooklyn College SJP has posted articles and videos online defending terrorism including an advertisement titled “The Third Intifada” on its Facebook page. It has hosted multiple speakers on the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and even an event to discuss its policy of refusing to dialogue or establish “normalization” with pro-Israel organizations and students. A gang of 10 anti-Israel activists recently stormed a campus faculty meeting, calling one faculty member a “Zionist pig” and issuing demands for “Zionists off campus.”
Supporting Evidence:
May 15, 2016: Brooklyn College SJP held a demonstration at City Hall Park in New York to commemorate “Al-Nakba.” Nakba is an Arabic term meaning “catastrophe” that is used by Hamas and its supporters to describe the creation of Israel. For the record, Israel was created by the United Nations on land that belonged to the Turks (who are not Arabs, let alone “Palestinians”) for 400 years previously. Israel was created in the same way Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq were created, without becoming the targets of terrorist aggression.
“Nakba Day”: https://www.facebook.com/events/1720235081568888/
April 15, 2016: The Doctoral Students Council of the City University of New York (CUNY), of which Brooklyn College is a subsidiary, voted 42-19-9 in favor of a resolution calling for a boycott of “Israeli academic institutions for as long as the Israeli state continues to violate Palestinian rights under international law,” thereby endorsing the Hamas-inspired BDS movement and its false claims that Israel violates Palestinian rights. In fact, the million plus Arabs who are Israeli citizens have more rights than the Arabs of any other Middle Eastern state, including the territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160416-city-university-of-new-york-graduates-endorse-academic-boycott-of-israel/
April 03, 2016: Brooklyn College SJP posted an article defending terrorism and the BDS movement.
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/posts/1021316804607995
February 17, 2016: A gang of approximately 10 anti-Israel activists stormed a campus faculty meeting, calling one faculty member a “Zionist pig” and issuing demands for “Zionists off campus” and for an end to supposedly “racist” course offerings. Some of the faculty present applauded the student demands.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/brooklyn-college-students-demand-zionists-off-campus/
November 26, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP shared a video link on its Facebook page purporting to show the “loss of land” that occurred through a series of maps as Jews allegedly colonized Palestine. These fraudulent maps which begin with a map showing a non-existent “Palestine” in 1947, were created by Hamas to justify its terrorist war against the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/posts/937144603025216
November 18, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP invited students to attend an event held at the CUNY graduate center titled: “Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities.” The event advertisement promises it will be a “vital discussion on the importance—and challenges—of boycotting Israeli universities.”https://www.facebook.com/events/516617388505585/
November 17, 2015: SJP held a “Normalization Workshop” to discuss why SJP refuses to dialogue with pro-Israel students and groups on campus. This refusal to allow any discussion with groups supporting Israel is in line with the policies of Hamas and in direct conflict with the aims of a liberal arts university. https://www.facebook.com/events/1664985343748231/
November 12, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP endorsed a statement from the SJP contingent of the “Million Student March” which describes CUNY’s leadership as “the Zionist administration” and uses Hamas terminology to claim that it “reproduces settler-colonial ideology throughout CUNY through Zionist content of education.” The statement also refers to Israel as “occupied Palestine.” The reference to “Palestine” is to a political entity that has never existed in the fourteen hundred year history of the Middle East from the time of Mohammed. It is a Hamas fabrication. https://www.facebook.com/events/1727689847462158/
November 04, 2015: In an event sponsored by Brooklyn College SJP, Canadian-Israeli journalist David Sheen gave a talk on “Israel & Palestine: The Bullet, the Ballot and the Boycott,” during which he repeated common Hamas libels attacking Israel as a racist state and “theocracy” that is attempting to start a “race war” through “burning babies” and other acts of violence against Arabs and blacks.
http://humanrightscolumbia.org/?q=content/israel-palestine-bullet-ballot-and-boycott
https://www.facebook.com/events/149758185377151/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#brooklyn
November 02, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP co-sponsored a vigil at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in support of the “Holy Land Five,” high level employees of the Holy Land Foundation who were convicted of funneling millions to Hamas. https://www.facebook.com/events/1057428320947769/
October 08, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP posted an online poster labeled “The Third Intifada” on its Facebook page. While “Intifada” literally means “shaking off,” it is the name assigned by terrorists to their suicide bombing and stabbing attacks against Jewish civilians in Israel. https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/photos/a.436662053073476.96405.383132888426393/913946182011725/?type=3&theater
October 07, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP held a “die-in” on campus to accuse Israel of murdering Palestinian civilians as part of an international “Day of Rage.” The fake corpses were covered in fake blood with signs around their necks accusing Israel of various crimes. One sign read “This is just a fraction of life under Israeli Apartheid.” The protest was accompanied by numerous chalked slogans, including some endorsing the BDS movement such as “Boycott Israel.”https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/posts/914031238669886
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/photos/pb.383132888426393.-2207520000.1451700940./914114238661586/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/photos/pb.383132888426393.-2207520000.1451700940./914022895337387/?type=3&theater
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#brooklyn
March 25, 2015: Anti-Semitic graffiti reading “Jews – root of all evil” was found in a men’s bathroom stall in the Brooklyn College library.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/anti-semitic-vandalism-brooklyn-college
2012-Present: Brooklyn College SJP members and their supporters at Brooklyn College expressed vehement Jew hatred and support for anti-Israel terrorism on social media. SJP member Ayah Aly tweeted such sentiments as “Anyone supporting Israel is living in a constant state of delusion. Exterminate yourselves” and “If you’re a zionist, you israeli the lowest piece of scum on earth.” She also tweeted that “Jews” are one of the “top10thingsIhate” and claimed that the United States government was behind the 9/11 attacks, stating on twitter “NeverForget this day, 14 years ago,when the U.S Government conspired against its’ own Country and blamed it on Islam.”
Brooklyn College graduate student Raja Abdulhaq wrote on Facebook that “It’s very important to always remember that Western colonial powers are as guilty as Israel in the mass-murder of Palestinians, especially the USA.” He also condoned anti-Israel terrorism, sharing on Facebook that “If you preach about popular resistance by calling it ‘non-violent’ resistance in the international arena and indirectly condemn other forms of resistance, mainly armed, then you don’t represent Palestine.”
San Diego State University:
San Diego State University made national headlines last spring when SJP members and their supporters held University President Elliot Hirshman hostage for two hours because they were outraged that he refused to condemn anti-BDS posters put up by the David Horowitz Freedom Center on the grounds that they were speech protected by the First Amendment. They joined Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in calling for the resignation of President Hirshman.
SDSU is home to a highly active BDS campaign supported by at least eleven leftist campus organizations. A school-wide referendum on a BDS resolution garnered a majority of votes, but not the 2/3 supermajority needed for passage. SDSU-SJP has also followed Hamas’s policy of refusing the “normalization” of relations with pro-Israel groups by barring Students Supporting Israel (SSI) from signing a statement encouraging greater inclusion of Muslims on campus.
Supporting Evidence:
November 23, 2015: After a Muslim student was assaulted on campus, the pro-Israel group Students Supporting Israel (SSI) attempted to co-sign a petition to make the campus more inclusive for Muslims. SDSU-SJP refused to allow them to co-sign the statement, on the grounds that it “didn’t serve the interests of the community.” SSI reported that “Out of the over 30 organizations that had signed the document, SSI was the only organization to be excluded from the statement.” This refusal to allow the “normalization” of relations with pro-Israel groups and individuals is a key tenet of Hamas’s political philosophy.
http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Students-Supporting-Israel-SSI-blog/When-a-rally-against-Islamophobia-excluded-our-campus-pro-Israel-group-436329
October 19, 2015: SDSU-SJP endorsed a statement from the Uhuru Solidarity Movement which condoned anti-Israel terrorism as “resistance against the oppressive Zionist entity” and stated “LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA” – the terrorist campaign against Israeli Jews.
https://www.facebook.com/sdsusjp/posts/709785435818550
https://www.facebook.com/events/1911256662432155/permalink/1914159368808551/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#sdsu
October 11, 2015: SDSU hosted the Fifth Annual Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference. The event featured convicted terrorist Rasmeah Odeh as a keynote speaker and several workshops promoting the Hamas-inspired BDS campaign against Israel.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/70197/news/activists-for-palestine-host-national-conference-at- sdsu/
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2015/10/12/shame-on-sjp-for-inviting-murderer-to-sdsu/
April 09, 2015: Over 3,000 SDSU students participated in a university-wide referendum on BDS against Israel. A majority of students (53%) voted for the measure but it failed because a 2/3 majority is required for passage. The BDS movement is a Hamas-inspired and funded campaign to destroy the state of Israel through economic strangulation and isolation.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/66105/news/divestment-denied-falls-short-of-two-thirds-majority/
April 06, 2015: Eleven student organizations signed a pro-BDS statement printed in the campus newspaper, The Daily Aztec. The organizations included the Arab Student Association, International Socialist Organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, Muslim Student Association, and Students for Justice in Palestine. The statement echoed Hamas’s propaganda line, claiming that Israel is conducting a “violent, illegal occupation of Palestine,” and referring to Israel’s defensive military campaign Operation Protective Edge – which was a response to thousands of Hamas rockets fired into civilian areas – as a “massacre” of Palestinians.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/65798/news/statement-in-support-of-divestment/
April 05, 2015: In the wake of a student government vote on BDS, anti-Semitic and genocidal remarks were made on the local social media site Yik Yak including “Heil Hitler” and “SDSU divest so we can get rid of the Jews.”
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/66142/opinion/anti-semitic-posts-divest-from-social-progress/
March 24, 2015: SDSU SJP released a video supporting BDS Against Israel. The video featured numerous SDSU students explaining why they support the BDS campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffTYqnwFVM
January 21, 2015: SDSU Divest launched its BDS campaign against Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/sdsudivest/posts/1557279221182470
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#sdsu
November 6, 2014: SDSU SJP violated the Student Code of Conduct by dropping leaflets from the top of several campus buildings meant to simulate an Israeli air strike. According to the campus paper, “The papers fluttering to the ground were meant to resemble leaflets dropped over Gaza ordering Palestinians to flee the region because of an imminent air strike.” http://www.thedailyaztec.com/59442/daily-aztec-stories/sjp-drops-leaflets-on-sdsu-campus/#sthash.MRknXAbk.dpuf
April 09, 2014: Nirit Revzin, president of Aztecs for Israel, wrote in a campus newspaper column: “I have been rejected numerous times in creating a dialogue toward progress or cooperating with Students for Justice in Palestine, as I have been told ‘SJP officers do not socialize with sympathizers of a brutal apartheid state.’” This refusal to allow the “normalization” of relations with Israel or pro-Israel groups is a key tenet of Hamas’s strategy.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/51791/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-divestment-creates-campus-hostility/#sthash.I6GyKFNu.dpuf
San Francisco State University:
San Francisco State University (SFSU) has repeatedly enabled the most extreme actions of its General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), a group closely resembling Students for Justice in Palestine, once led by SJP founder Hatem Bazian. This past April, GUPS disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, by shouting exhortations to terrorist violence and succeeded in curtailing his address. The demonstrators shouted “Intifada,” a call for terrorism against Israel, and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a call for the obliteration of the Jewish state. The former president of GUPS wrote dozens of social media posts threatening violence to pro-Israel students, Israelis, the IDF and others. He also praised Hamas and the violent Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
GUPS holds annual Israeli Apartheid Weeks which demonize Israel as an apartheid state and commemorate the founding of Israel as “al-Nakba” or “the catastrophe.” The faculty advisor for GUPS, Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, met with terrorists Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah during a university-funded trip to the Middle East. (Khaled is a convicted hijacker and a member of the terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Sheikh Raed Salah has been repeatedly jailed on charges of incitement to terrorist violence.) When questioned about the trip, San Francisco State administrators denied that Abdulhadi’s trip was an improper use of university funds. Abdulhadi also helped to broker a formal collaboration between SFSU and An-Najah National University in Palestine, which is known for its recruitment of students as cadre for Hamas and as suicide bombers.
Supporting Evidence:
April 12, 2016: SFSU hosted a tour created by National SJP called “Right 2 Education,” featuring two speakers from Birzeit University in Palestine. Birzeit is well known for hosting Hamas rallies and Hamas recently beat out rival party Fatah in student elections there. During the event, the student speakers defended terrorism claiming that acts such as knife attacks on unarmed civilians were merely efforts to “bring attention” to the alleged plight of Palestinians. The speakers praised the genocidal BDS campaign against Israel, and attempted to delegitimize the Israeli state by falsely claiming that Jews “fabricate our history to make it look like they have a right to exist in our country” and that “Israel was built to be a racist state.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1Qn0-WWgkhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1046150668762908/http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-sfsu/
April 06, 2016: The SFSU General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, by shouting exhortations to terrorist violence and succeeded in curtailing his address. SFSU students involved in the protest entered the auditorium carrying Palestinian flags and wearing checkered kaffiyehs which are associated with anti-Israel terrorism. The demonstrators then proceeded to shout “Intifada,” and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a slogan falsely claiming that Israel is Palestine (Israel is bounded by the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea) and should be destroyed.
When SFSU President Wong called for an investigation into the protestors who shut down Barkat’s speech, GUPS responded by calling Wong’s request an “attack on pro-Palestine protestors” that “criminalize[s] anti-racist speech on campus.”
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-sfsu/
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/pcb.1062598990465938/1062585853800585/?type=3&theater
February 23, 2016: GUPS at SFSU held a rally in solidarity with Mohammed Al-Qeeq, a Palestinian journalist who was arrested and detained by Israel. According to the Associated Press, “Israel’s Shin Bet security service says al-Qeeq is involved in terrorism activities linked to the militant Hamas movement.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Qiqhttps://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.427821270610383.99022.419960624729781/1023459584379879/?type=3
October 14, 2015: GUPS at SFSU promoted a community protest on its Facebook page supporting terrorism and the Hamas goal of destroying Israel. GUPS’s endorsement stated in part: “The General Union of Palestine Students – GUPS-SFSU supports the uprisings in Palestine! We Stand with our Brothers and Sisters in the streets, and we will find victory! … End to the Zionist State! End to the killings of our Men, Women and Children in cold blood! End to the colonist empire! We will not be silenced!”
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.427821270610383.99022.419960624729781/960183580707480/?type=3&theater
September 21, 2015: GUPS at SFSU held a protest and die-in called “From Sabra to Syria: My Homeland is not a Suitcase.” One student lay on the ground holding a mock Israeli flag with “Stop Settler Colonialism” scrawled across it, an echo of the Hamas claim that the Jews have “colonized” Palestine, a blatant historical falsehood, since the land on which Israel was created belonged to the Turks (who are neither Arabs nor Palestinians) for 400 years previously.
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.673419969383844.1073741826.419960624729781/953487938043711/?type=3&theater
May 8, 2015: GUPS at SFSU held an event to commemorate the “Nakba,” an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” that Hamas and its supporters use to describe the creation of Israel. A poster for the event stated “67 years later al-nakba continues. Join GUPS in honoring Palestinian resilience.”
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.673419969383844.1073741826.419960624729781/878140425578463/?type=1
April 17, 2015: GUPS at SFSU held “Israeli Apartheid Week” on campus. The poster for the event stated, “Together we rise against colonialism,” repeating Hamas’s mendacious position that the Arab nation of “Palestine” was colonized by Jews. The event included the display of a mock “apartheid wall” painted with anti-Israel propaganda.
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.427821270610383.99022.419960624729781/862369367155569/?type=1
http://goldengatexpress.org/2015/04/21/gups-israeli-apartheid-week/
Fall 2014: SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, faculty advisor to GUPS who took a university- sponsored trip to the Middle East where she met with terrorists Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah, posted on her Facebook page, “Today San Francisco State University’s All University Committee on International Programs unanimously voted to recommend that SF State formally collaborate with An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. This is the first time that SFSU will collaborate with any university in a Palestinian, Arab or Muslim community.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has written of An-Najah University, “Today the student council of An-Najah is known for its advocacy of anti-Israel violence and its recruitment of Palestinian college students into terrorist groups. The council, almost completely controlled by factions loyal to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah, glorifies suicide bombings and propagandizes for jihad against Israel. Hamas has described An-Najah as a ‘greenhouse for martyrs.’”
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2015/04/sfsu-partnering-with-terror-supporting.html#.VehwqPlVikp
http://archive.adl.org/terrorism/symbols/islamic_palestine_block.htmlhttp://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/statefunded_university_promoting_alliances_with_hamasdominated_palestinian_universities.html
November 5, 2014: GUPS at SFSU held the 7th Annual Edward Said Mural Celebration. Among the event’s speakers was UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, a former leader of GUPS and co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, who, during speech at an anti-war rally in San Francisco in 2004, called for an “Intifada” in America: “Well, we’ve been watching [an] Intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in Iraq [against the United States], and the question is what are we doing? How come we don't have an Intifada in this country? Because it seem[s] to me, that we are comfortable in where we are, watching CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, and all these mainstream ... giving us a window to the world while the world is being managed from Washington, from New York, from every other place in here in San Francisco: Chevron, Bechtel, Carlyle Group, Halliburton; every one of those lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving individuals are in our country and we’re sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being bombed, and it’s about time that we have an Intifada in this country that changes fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know ... they're gonna say some Palestinian [is] being too radical. Well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/pcb.776612295731277/776612195731287/?type=1&theater
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11850
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2173
February 2014: SFSU General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) President Mohammad G. Hammad was exposed as having written a number of threatening social media posts describing his wish to attack students, teachers and Israeli soldiers and to ally himself with anti-Israel terrorists including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Hammad’s posts include: A photo of himself holding a large knife with the caption: “I seriously cannot get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier…” “I think about killing a lot. And some of you are usually the targets of my daydreams J.” “You know what? Israelis ARE colonizers, there is literally no way around it. And you know what else? My heroes have always killed colonizers. I literally see nothing wrong with this. And my only regret is that not all colonizers were killed.”
In response to a poster that asked “how can I help actively support Palestine,” Hammad responded “Buy a keffieyh. Learn to tie it around your head…get in touch with some PFLP militants or arms dealers in the West Bank. Learn IDF patrol routes…BOOM.” “Let’s play a game. Objective: Kill U.S. Soldiers. Goal: world peace.” “The number of times I have legitimately considered flying back to the Middle East and joining the armed wing of the PFLP or something is surprisingly high.” “I think about the time I tried to be - moderate - and advocate for non-violence and honestly I just want to go back in time and slit my own throat/and then the throats of all my enemies before they grow up into the shits they are today.” “Oh/And tomorrow is [hopefully] the day that I find out if I will be the President of the General Union of Palestine at my school/...Hopefully I'll be able to radicalize half of our population and bring them back with me as fighters.”
After Jewish groups and the media exposed his postings, Hammad eventually left campus and was placed under investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI.
http://www.antisemitismatsfsu.blogspot.com/2014/02/from-ktvu-sfsu-student-under-fire-for.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/mohammad-h-hammads-tumblr-postings-5713-111013/
http://www.antisemitismatsfsu.blogspot.com/2014/02/documentation-of-mohammad-g-hammads.html
http://www.antisemitismatsfsu.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-nightmare-is-over-at-san-francisco.html
December 5, 2013: During an “emergency rally” held by GUPS at SFSU, the phrase “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers” was written with chalk on the concrete stage at Malcolm X Plaza. The same phrase, referring to the Hamas assertion that Jews have colonized Arab Palestine and must be exterminated, is also written on a sign at a display table during the “Edward Said Mural Celebration.” Said was a Columbia professor who was a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Palestinian National Council until 1991 when he resigned because he thought the terrorist Yasser Arafat’s policies were too moderate towards Israel.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=634
http://goldengatexpress.org/2013/12/11/non-student-groups-force-president-wong-to-address-student-rights-of-free-speech/
Tufts University
Tufts University hosted the SJP National Conference in 2014 at which students were instructed how and when to take “direct action” against supporters of Israel. Tufts SJP has repeatedly condoned anti-Israel terrorism in its published works and statements and holds an annual “Israeli Apartheid” hate week during which the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel is promoted. Tufts SJP also attempted to delegitimize supporters of Israel by labeling the pro-Israel campus group Students Supporting Israel “literally a hate group.”
Supporting Evidence:
June 02, 2016: Tufts SJP added its name to a letter from SJP National protesting a decision by the San Francisco State University administration to investigate the actions of a pro-Palestinian group known as the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) who disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, on April 6th by shouting exhortations to terrorist violence. SFSU students involved in the protest entered the auditorium carrying Palestinian flags and wearing checkered kaffiyehs which are associated with anti-Israel terrorism. The demonstrators then proceeded to shout “Intifada,” a call for terrorism against Israel, and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a slogan advocating for the destruction of Israel.
The letter signed by Tufts SJP stated: “We condemn SFSU President’s pledge to open a ‘full investigation’ into the protest and condemn the President’s pledge to prevent peaceful student dissent in the future. Such actions create a chilling effect undermining activism and freedom of speech for students advocating for justice and freedom in Palestine.”
https://www.facebook.com/SJP.National/posts/1058448970859732http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/08/san-francisco-state-u-to-launch-investigation-after-jewish-groups-denounce-shout-down-of-jerusalem-mayors-speech/#
April 09, 2016: Tufts SJP praised Columbia University SJP for disrupting a talk by the Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barakat. According to an account posted by Columbia SJP, “We organized an action to shed light on his promotion of VIOLENCE, APARTHEID and ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians.”
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/757862274350106
March 10, 2016: Tufts SJP held “Israeli Apartheid Week” on campus. During a demonstration, students distributed a publication called “Zintifada,” labeled on its website as “an independent publication of Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine,” which supported Palestinian terrorism and violence against Israel, stating that “violence is acted upon by the powerless by the powerful. Let us not only recognize the right of the oppressed to defy, but let us also stand as allies in their struggle.” http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2016/03/10/students-for-justice-in-palestine-protest-occupation-as-part-of-israeli-apartheid-week/
https://issuu.com/tufts-sjp/docs/thezintifada
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/737918903011110
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-tuftsuniversity/
March 04, 2016: Tufts SJP attempted to delegitimize supporters of Israel by labeling the pro-Israel campus group Students Supporting Israel “literally a hate group.” Such behavior is consistent with Hamas’s dictate to reject the “normalization” of relations with Israel and its supporters.
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/736509426485391
December 07, 2015: Tufts SJP held an event called “Palestinian Human Rights Now.” The Facebook graphic for the event featured an image of rockets with dollar signs dropping off a conveyer belt and the captions “US Taxpayers funded 670 million weapons for Israel between 2000 and 2009” and “During these years the Israeli military killed at least 2,960 unarmed Palestinians.” The poster made no mention of the numerous unprovoked rocket attacks by the Palestinians on Israel. There have been no unprovoked rocket attacks by Israel against Palestinians.
https://www.facebook.com/events/210393795959324/
October 28, 2015: SJP members disrupted a “Taste of Israel” event held by the campus organization Friends of Israel by distributing flyers attacking Israel and labeling it an “apartheid” state. One flyer read: “Taste of Israeli Occupation” while another stated “Don’t dip into Israel apartheid.”
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-tuftsuniversity/
http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/10/30/sjp-members-disrupt-annual-taste-israel-event-signs-flyers/
August 18, 2015: Two student organizations at Tufts, the Spoken Word Alliance at Tufts and Tufts Pan-African Alliance, added their signatures and support to the 2015 Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine. The statement endorses the Hamas-inspired BDS movement, demonizes and delegitimizes Israel, uses Hamas language to refer to the Israeli defensive action Operation Protective Edge as “last summer’s Gaza massacre,” and supports Hamas terrorism against Israel claiming that “US and Israeli officials and media criminalize our existence, portray violence against us as ‘isolated incidents,’ and call our resistance ‘illegitimate’ or ‘terrorism.’”
http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-tuftsuniversity/
March 1-6, 2015: Tufts held Israeli Apartheid Week 2015 on campus. Events for the week included a panel on the “History, Tactics and Future of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions,” and a “Conversation with Tufts Professors on Palestine” during which activists accused Israel of “apartheid,” “colonialism” and “racism” - accusations meant to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/events/612588448885063
https://www.facebook.com/events/785703118150784
https://www.facebook.com/events/1039567279390440/
http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/03/05/faculty-participate-israeli-apartheid-week-panel/
March 04, 2015: Tufts SJP hung a banner promoting the film “The Lab” in the main campus dining hall with the caption “Israeli weapons tried and tested on Palestinians.” This statement and film support the “blood libel” propagated by Hamas that Israel deliberately murders Palestinians, when it is in fact responding to a seventy year unprovoked aggression by Arabs on the Jewish state.https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/photos/pb.209875379148801.-2207520000.1458578669./587178744751794/?type=3&theater
https://canarymission.org/individuals/noah-habeeb/
April 27, 2014: Tufts SJP staged a “die-in” on campus to protest an “Israeli Independence BBQ” which they claimed was held “on Nakba Day when hundreds of thousands were expelled or murdered 66 years ago.” The “Nakba” is an Arabic term meaning “catastrophe” which Hamas and its allies use to refer to the day of Israel’s founding. These are lies. Israel was attacked by five Arab states on the day of its creation, and the Arabs who fled did so at the behest of the Arab armies who promised them they could return when Israel was destroyed. Tufts SJP neglected to mention that on the day of Israel’s founding it was attacked by five Arab nations and that resulting deaths occurred in self-defense of the fledgling nation.
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/436487293154274
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/photos/pcb.436487293154274/436486743154329/?type=3&theater
October 24-26, 2014: Tufts SJP hosted the Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference on campus. Panels held as part of the conference were designed to teach SJP activists how to take “direct action” to counter pro-Israel groups on campus. The conference program stated, “Presently, SJPs throughout the nation are pushing the limits of Palestine Solidarity, and understanding how civil disobedience works can strengthen any campaign’s pressure and salience… Understanding this tactic is crucial to a stronger and more versatile SJP that seeks to publicly challenge university administrations and student governments.”
A member of the national SJP steering committee which organized the conference, Ahmad Aburas, has publicly declared his support for Hamas on social media. One of the conference’s keynote speakers, Mohammad Desai, is the National Coordinator of BDS South Africa, and has defended South African BDS activists who chanted “shoot the Jew” at a pro-BDS protest.
https://www.standwithus.com/news/article.asp?id=3566http://freebeacon.com/national-security/tufts-university-hosting-islamists-to-train-students-in-direct-action/
March 05, 2014: As part of Israeli Apartheid Week demonstrations held on campus, Tufts SJP distributed mock eviction notices to student dorms which stated that “Eviction and demolition notices are routinely given to Palestinian families living under oppressive Israeli occupation for no reason other than their ethnic background.” In fact eviction notices are given to the families and supporters of terrorists who have actually carried out attacks on innocent civilians. Tufts SJP also constructed a mock apartheid wall and staged a mock eviction during which students were held blindfolded at gunpoint.
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/apartheid-highlight-occupation/
2010: The Tufts chapter of SJP was founded by Lucas Koerner who was later arrested for biting an Israeli police officer at the Jerusalem Day parade and who has compared Israel to Nazi Germany and stated that “Gaza is a concentration camp.” The organization’s motto supports the Hamas-inspired BDS movement and “resistance” which is a coded reference to Hamas terrorism: “Peace through justice. Equality through resistance. Humanity through BDS.”
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/info/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
https://canarymission.org/individuals/noah-habeeb/
University of California Berkeley:
UC-Berkeley is home to an extremist and highly active anti-Israel movement allied with Hamas terrorists. During a recent campus rally, students supporting the BDS movement chanted pro-terrorist slogans including “Let it be known that we here at Berkeley support the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – calls to kill Jews in Israel and destroy the Jewish state. Berkeley SJP shared an article on its Facebook page quoting a Fatah activist who declared “Call Me a Terrorist, but I’m No Different From Israeli Troops Defending Their Homeland.” Since the Arabs are the aggressors in the seventy-year war to destroy the Jewish state, this analogy is obviously false and self-serving.
The Berkeley campus has hosted numerous pro-BDS speakers including Omar Barghouti, founder of the Hamas inspired and funded boycott movement, and Remi Kanazi, an anti-Israel poet and BDS supporter. Berkeley is the academic home of Professor Hatem Bazian, Hamas supporter and co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine.
Supporting Evidence:
June 28, 2016: UC Berkeley’s Center for Race & Gender offered a “Palestine De-Colonial Summer School” in Istanbul, Turkey. The program reinforced the Hamas narrative that Jews colonized a non-existent state called Palestine. Among the themes examined in the program were “Colonialism: settler colonialism and the meaning of de-colonization,” “Understanding Zionism, as a colonial, racial and Euro-centric Project,” and “The Palestinian Nakba and the dispossession.” A textbook of Hamas libels against the Jews.https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/1040015702751457
http://www.irdproject.com/turkey.html
May 16, 2016: UC Berkeley SJP shared several posts on Facebook commemorating the “Nakba,” an Arabic term meaning catastrophe that Hamas and its supporters use to refer to the creation of Israel and to commemorate the unprovoked aggressive war five Arab states launched against the tiny state on that day and have continued ever since.
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/1013859892033705
March 31, 2016: Berkeley SJP held a “Die-in, March, and Speakout for Palestine” on campus. The Facebook notice for the event read, “We are dying-in and marching in solidarity with all Palestinians subjected to Israeli violence. Our action seeks to represent visually the people who have shed blood and tears at Israel’s hands in the West Bank, in Jerusalem, in Gaza, and worldwide.” The rally included the display of a large mock “apartheid wall” which featured anti-Israel slogans and pro-terrorist propaganda. One panel of the “apartheid wall” depicted all of Israel replaced with a Palestinian flag, implying that Israel should be replaced by an Arab state of Palestine and should no longer exist.
https://www.facebook.com/events/447042462151836/
March 29, 2016: Berkeley SJP created a “mock checkpoint” on campus to demonize Israel and intimidate students as they attempted to cross the campus. The actual checkpoints have cut the number of Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian terrorists to near zero – a fact suppressed by SJP. During the demonstration, students impersonating Israeli soldiers with “IDF” written on the backs of their shirts, and armed with mock assault rifles, arrested those representing Palestinians, as though the IDF’s efforts were about oppressing Palestinians instead of defending innocent civilians.
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/989330934486601
March 8-10, 2016: UC Berkeley SJP held “Palestine Awareness Week” on campus, although events actually continued throughout the month of March. This week featured all the key propaganda points Hamas uses to justify its war of extermination against Israel’s Jews.
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/photos/?tab=album&album_id=989154161170945
March 06, 2015: Three Berkeley professors--Rutie Adler, Hatem Bazian, and Samera Esmeir--were among the signatories to an op-ed printed in the Daily Californian supporting BDS resolutions on UC campuses and the Hamas-inspired effort to destroy the Jewish state.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/06/statement-uc-faculty-divestment-israel/
February 19, 2016: Berkeley SJP shared an article on its Facebook page defending Palestinian terrorism against Israel. The article focused on a Fatah activist who spent 23 years in prison for killing an Israeli. The activist is quoted as saying “Call Me a Terrorist, but I’m No Different From Israeli Troops Defending Their Homeland.” The inability to distinguish between a defender and an aggressor is characteristic of Hamas-SJP propaganda.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.704179?utm_content=buffer698f5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=bufferhttps://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/956225744463787
February 18, 2016: UC Berkeley hosted Dr. Jeff Halper for a talk on “War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians, and Global Pacification.” The Facebook notice for the event repeated the Hamas blood libel claims that Israelis are using the “occupied territories” to test their experimental weapons: “Drawing on firsthand research, the author shows how the integration of militarized systems - databases, tracking civilian activity, automated targeting systems and unmanned drones – is perfected to sustain fear among the populace and how the Occupied Territories are used by Israel as a veritable weapon laboratory.” No mention was made by Halper of the fact that every time Israel withdraws its forces, as in Gaza, the vacuum is filled with Hamas terrorists firing rockets into Israeli schoolyards and digging multimillion dollar terror tunnels to carry out attacks in Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/events/969050343160667/
November 16, 2015: Berkeley SJP hosted anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi on campus. Kanazi has called Israel “a racist state built on stolen Palestinian land” that is “maintained through ethnic cleansing, occupation, bombing campaigns, draconian laws, settlements, outposts, colonizer roads, siege, blockade, chemical warfare, an apartheid wall, home demolitions, control of borders/imports/exports/water aquifers/air/sea/taxes/currency, the denial of family reunification, jailing of children, night raids, administrative detention, uprooting olive groves, restriction on movement, denying refugees the ability to return, and much more.”
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/photos/a.443674539052246.1073741828.442429532510080/908256319260730/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/events/1659929700916162/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D
October 14, 2015: UC Berkeley’s SJP chapter held a rally to support the “International Day of Action” for Palestine and the BDS movement against Israel at Sproul Plaza on campus. The Muslim Students Association co-sponsored the event. Featured speakers included SJP co-founder, Berkeley professor and Hamas-supporter Hatem Bazian. Speakers and participants at the event chanted pro-terrorist slogans including “Let it be known that we here at Berkeley support the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The Intifada is the Arabic name for suicide attacks on Jews, and “from the river to the sea” means the obliteration of the Jewish state and its replacement by an Islamic totalitarian regime identical to the one that now exists in Gaza. A mock “apartheid wall” plastered with anti-Israel propaganda was displayed at the event, including the malicious and false accusation that “Israel massacred over 500 kids in Gaza.” During the rally, an SJP member grabbed a sign held by a pro-Israel student and then shoved that student.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO774Ygod5s
https://www.facebook.com/events/881702435239671/
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/76086/zoa-jewish-student-was-assaulted-at-cal/
September 18, 2015: Omar Barghouti, the founder of the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS movement against Israel, spoke at Berkeley. His talk was co-sponsored by SJP and by eight university departments including the Center for Race and Gender, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies, Ethnic Studies, English, Chicano Studies, Near Eastern Studies, and African American Studies. Barghouti’s speech was titled, “BDS: Academia’s Role in the Struggle for Freedom and Justice in Palestine,” and promoted the academic boycott of Israel.http://blog.adl.org/tags/omar-barghouti
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#berkeley
February 4, 2015: A swastika was found on a “university-owned building on University Avenue.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/berkeley-s-swastika-problem-are-america-s-liberal-colleges-breeding-anti-semitism.html
March 2, 2015: Genocidal graffiti was found in a campus restroom reading: “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/berkeley-s-swastika-problem-are-america-s-liberal-colleges-breeding-anti-semitism.html
February 22, 2015: Berkeley SJP violated campus rules by distributing over 600 fake eviction notices to students in campus housing. SJP made clear that the campaign was in support of the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel, stating in a press release that “With this action, we are calling on the UC Regents to honor the consensus in favor of divestment.”
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/02/24/students-justice-palestine-serves-fake-eviction-notices-unit-2-residents/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#berkeley
January 30, 2015: UC Berkeley’s office for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity posted an article on its website titled “Rhetoric of racism, from Ferguson to Palestine” that defended Hamas terrorism, claiming that “Hamas is a political party that has been under siege, along with the entirety of the Gaza Strip, for the last seven years and under Israeli military occupation since 1967.” The article, which ignored the three aggressive wars conducted by the Arab states against Israel and the 70 years of terror attacks, also condemned Israel claiming that it “was founded after a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian population that continues until today” –a genocidal lie created by Arab dictators and terrorists to justify their aggressive war against the Jews. The only ethnic cleansing proposed in the Middle East is the Arab plan to purge the region of Jews – and in so many words.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/09/rhetoric-racism-from-ferguson-pa-20149461827965518.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#berkeley
University of California Irvine
The University of California Irvine is a notorious base for supporters of terrorists. BDS activists on campus make no secret of their allegiance to Hamas, chanting slogans such as “Intifada, Intifada/long live the Intifada” and “when people are occupied/resistance is justified” and disrupting pro-Israel events. Irvinehosts an annual Israeli Apartheid Week which has been variously called “Anti-Zionism Week” and “Resisting Zionism” by its supporters. Recently, Irvine’s mock “apartheid wall” glorified convicted hijacker Leila Khaled a member of the murderous terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The wall depicted a map of Israel with the entire nation labeled as “occupied territory.” Speakers invited to Irvine by the campus chapter of the Muslim Student Union included BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti and infamous terrorist-supporting anti-Semite, Amir Abdel Malik Ali, who has openly stated his allegiance to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Irvine’s student senate unanimously passed a BDS resolution in 2012, one of the first student governments in the nation to do so. Irvine students even met with a prominent Hamas leader during a secret trip to the Middle East in 2009.
Supporting Evidence:
May 18, 2016: Irvine SJP succeeded in disrupting a pro-Israel film screening that was co-sponsored by the campus chapters of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) and Hillel. SSI reported on its Facebook page that, “Tonight one of our events was disrupted by certain student organizations. They were in violation of UC Regents Hate Speech policy and were shouting various anti-Semitic statements. The police had to escort attendees out of the event for their own safety.” Video of the event reveals students shouting their support for anti-Israel terrorism, screaming “Intifada, Intifada/long live the Intifada,” “displacing people since ‘48/there’s nothing here to celebrate!” and “when people are occupied/resistance is justified.”
https://www.facebook.com/SSIUCI/posts/1111833845525576
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7605
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-ucirvine/
May 2-5, 2016: Irvine’s chapters of SJP and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) collaborated with other student groups to hold an “Anti-Zionist Week” on campus. The week featured a huge mock “apartheid wall” which celebrated anti-Israel terrorism in multiple panels. One panel depicted an image of convicted hijacker Leila Khaled holding a gun with the slogan “Women Leading Resistance” below it. “Resistance” is a euphemism for anti-Israel terrorism. Another segment of the wall repeats the slogan, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.” Another segment depicted a map of Israel with the entire nation labeled as “occupied territory,” an allusion to Hamas’s genocidal goal to rid Israel of its Jews. The wall also endorsed the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.
In addition to the apartheid wall, Irvine’s anti-Zionist week featured a mock funeral procession for a Palestinian “martyr.” One of the students participating in the funeral procession held a sign proclaiming “Long Live the Intifada.” Another event featured a speech by anti-Israel Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss who comes from a fringe Jewish sect. During his address, Weiss resorted to anti-Semitic caricatures, claiming that Zionism is “a Madoff scheme” and Zionists use their “billions and billions of dollars” to intimidate “the media” and “any politician who dares …to show too much sympathy for the Palestinian cause.” He also claimed that “newspapers are conglomerates that are owned or controlled by Zionist organizations.”http://www.imgrum.net/media/1243068338314014499_227088962http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2016/05/rabbi-yisroel-dovid-weiss-condemns.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-ucirvine/
https://www.facebook.com/msuuci/photos/a.109702209116306.23746.109701965782997/1015493961870455/?type=3&theater
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2016/05/uc-irvine-bash-israel-week-is-here.html
February 19, 2016: SJP held an event titled “Unlearning Zionism: A Workshop and Discussion” with the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. The Facebook page for the event featured side-by-side photos labeled “Warsaw 1944” (an image of the Warsaw ghetto) with “Gaza 2009,” implying an equivalence between the Holocaust and the treatment of Palestinians.https://www.facebook.com/events/1600520343520537/
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/photos/gm.1600520360187202/950070228380389/?type=3&theater
October 12, 2015: An event featuring former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak at Irvine was interrupted by 20-30 anti-Israel protestors, forcing police to interrupt the event and escort Barak and the other attendees out of the event.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-ucirvine/
May 4-7, 2015: UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union staged an “Anti-Zionism Week” on campus. As part of the week’s activities, SJP and MSU sold T-shirts emblazoned with “UC Intifada,” openly stating their allegiance to Jew-killing terrorists. The back of the T-shirt read “End Settler Colonialism” (a core Hamas fiction) and depicted a genocidal Hamas map which falsely alleged that an Arab nation called “Palestine” existed in 1947 and was over-run by Jews.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/california/article/a_letter_to_president_napolitano_and_chancellor_gillman_on_anti_zionism_wee
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/822587804461966
https://www.facebook.com/events/992972734047882/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&action_history=null&source=3&source_newsfeed_story_type=regular
April 23, 2015: A pro-Israel festival held by Anteaters for Israel (“Anteaters” is the school team name) was disrupted by anti-Israel protestors, who used their bodies and large signs to block a walkway and loudly chanted such slogans as “Resistance is justified when people are occupied,” an attempt to whitewash terrorism.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2015/04/pro-palestinians-mar-i-fest-at-uc-irvine.html
March 06, 2015: UC-Irvine professor Rei Terada was among the signatories of an op-ed appearing in the Daily Californian urging the administrators of the UC system to support the BDS Movement against Israel.
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/06/statement-uc-faculty-divestment-israel/
December 7, 2014: UC Irvine SJP held an event in defense of terrorist Rasmeah Odeh, with law professor Marjorie Cohn, calling Odeh “our comrade and sister.” Odeh was convicted by an Israeli military court in 1970 for her involvement in two fatal terrorist bombings: “Join us as we host Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former President of the National Lawyer’s [sic] Guild and current Deputy Secretary of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers as she discusses the implications of the U.S.’s targeting of our comrade and sister, Rasema Odeh [sic]. Ms. Cohn recently authored an article titled, “US Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity.”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/746787762041971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmea_Odeh
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2014/12/08/rasmieh-odeh-palestian-wins-bond/20116389/
July 14, 2014: UC Irvine SJP shared on its Facebook page the following statement about Israel’s belated response to the unprovoked firing of thousands of Hamas rockets into its civilian areas, called “Operation Protective Edge.” The SJP statement parroted Hamas’s war propaganda that “Operation Protective Edge” was an aggressive initiative to indiscriminately murder Palestinians: “Israel’s war on Gaza is not an attempt to strike back at Hamas, nor was it in the 2008 war on Gaza or the previous wars it has waged against Palestinians. This is an attempt to murder as many Palestinians as they can before they decide to stop. If you are shocked that Israel is killing Palestinian women and children do not be, this is their intention and the principle on which their state was created. Every couple of years Israel wages a war on defenseless populations in their quest to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people. Remember, even if the current war stops, they will come back to kill more Palestinians in the future. Do not get comfortable today, and do not ignore Palestine tomorrow. Continue to spread awareness about what is happening. It should not take more than 150 lives for us to wake up and decide to care. Palestine is under occupation all day, every day. May we all see a free Palestine. #gazaunderattack#FreePalestine”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/677228392331242
June 2014: UC Irvine SJP posted a statement on Operation Protective Edge, repeating Hamas lies and defending its war crimes: “718 People. 718 Palestinians. Israel is massacring Palestinians on such a mass scale, it’s a wonder why no media outlet is stating that they are targeting civilians. The lives taken speak louder than Israel propaganda.” Hamas deliberately locates its rocket launchers in civilian neighborhoods which accounts for the civilian casualties when Israel attempts to eliminate the Hamas rocket threat. SJP parrots this cynical propaganda as a loyal and uncritical ally of Hamas terrorism. UC Irvine SJP also shared a post from Holocaust-denying former professor Norman Finkelstein commenting on Operation Protective Edge and listing “the names of Palestinians that Israel has murdered. #gazaunderattack#freePalestine#IsraelcontinuestomurderPalestinians”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/682944208426327
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/678259378894810
May 6, 2014: UC Irvine SJP crashed a pro-Israel demonstration called “IFest” with a large sign, “End Apartheid.” A group of SJP and MSU members pushed through a gathering of pro-Israel students to intimidate them, causing injuries to some. One student was reportedly grabbed and deliberately pushed to the ground and left with scratches and bruises. SJP proudly showcased the demonstration on their Facebook page: “This is how we welcomed Ifest (Israeli Fest) today. This is how we remember; Israel’s Independence day is our catastrophe. #IsrealiIndependenceEqualsGenocide#FreePalestine:”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/photos/a.307158882671530.72599.126419344078819/645668485487233/?type=1
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/258644/betrayal-jews-paul-schnee
November 12, 2013: UC Irvine SJP hosted an event with anti-Israel activist Ben White, author ofIsraeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guideand co-author of Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. White’s talk was titled “Israel: Apartheid, Not Democracy.” White has defended Hamas’ attempts to kill Israeli civilians, stating “Israel’s hasbara (public relations) says context for assault is rocket fire. Well, context for rocket fire is 64 years of expulsion & occupation.” A flat out lie. Gaza was a staging ground for three unprovoked aggressive wars against Israel, and Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza in a gesture of peace which was answered by thousands of Hamas rockets aimed at civilians.
https://www.facebook.com/events/388580594608935/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&feed_story_type=17&action_history=null
http://www.adl.org/israel-international/anti-israel-activity/c/profile-ben-white.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/#.VfIA9BFViko
October 27, 2013: UC Irvine SJP posted on its Facebook page the series of Hamas-created maps that falsely depict a non-existent Arab nation of “Palestine” existing in 1947 and being colonized by Jews.
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/560146354039447
May 6-9, 2013: UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union (MSU) held a week of events on “Resisting Zionism: The Palestinian Narrative.” The week featured an enormous “apartheid wall” plastered with anti-Israel propaganda including a call for BDS and a list of the purported “Rules of Occupation” which invert the reality that Israeli security measures are necessitated by Palestinian terrorism and aggression to assert the false claim that Israel is seeking to oppress and ethnically cleanse Palestinians. In fact, the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel have more rights and protections than the Arabs of any other Middle Eastern nation. The week of anti-Jewish activities included multiple anti-Israel events including one with anti-Israel activist Miko Peled and also a discussion on “The Need for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.”
https://www.facebook.com/msuuci/photos/oa.137300469788603/444237518996105/?type=1
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/photos/a.307158882671530.72599.126419344078819/491259227594827/?type=1
February 4, 2013: UC Irvine SJP held an event featuring BDS Movement founder Omar Barghouti titled “All About BDS.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/148531135298456/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&feed_story_type=17&action_history=null
November 2012: UC Irvine’s student senate became one of the first in the nation to pass a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution against Israel. The BDS movement is a Hamas-inspired and funded campaign to strangle the Jewish state. The vote was unanimous, 16-0.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/165416/uc-irvine-student-government-approves-anti-israel-arnold-ahlert
May 8 2012: Anti-Semitic hate speaker Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a black racist “Imam” from Oakland, spoke at Irvine’s Palestinian Liberation Week which is organized by the Muslim Student Union. In addition to defending suicide bombers, Malik Ali has compared the Jews to Nazis and openly expressed support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxl299EPVaQ
February 2010: UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on campus, which resulted in the arrest of nine of its members (and another two from the UC-Riverside chapter). MSU members stood up one at a time and shouted accusations at Oren including, “Mr. Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech” and “Israel is guilty of 101 war crimes.” The MSU members refused to cease their disruption, even after an administrator repeatedly begged for civility and ultimately scolded the students: “Shame on all of you!” The tactics used by the MSU are in keeping with Hamas’ prohibition on the “normalization” of relations with Israel and supporters of Israel. For its violation of campus rules of civility, the MSU received a one-year suspension, which was ultimately shortened to only one semester after the organization and its lawyer appealed.
http://www.adl.org/israel-international/anti-israel-activity/c/anti-semitism-at-uc-irvine.html?referrer=http://archive.adl.org/main_anti_israel/uc_irvine_hate.html#.VdFKLPlVikohttp://volokh.com/2010/02/12/free-speech-on-campus-michael-oren-at-uc-irvine/
September 2009: Students participated in a campus program called the Olive Tree Initiative and met with prominent Hamas leader Aziz Duwaik during a trip to Israel and the West Bank. The students were told to keep the meeting a secret to avoid being prevented from re-entering Israel from the West Bank and to avoid a conflict with Jewish community leaders and others who would have disapproved of the meeting.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/89345/uc-irvine-students-secret-meeting-hamas-nichole-hungerford
http://www.ha-emet.com/oti_students_meet_hamas.html
University of California Los Angeles:
UCLA’s pro-terrorist BDS sympathizers have repeatedly made national news, most recently for forcing the resignation of the university’s graduate student president, Milan Chatterjee, who reported in his resignation letter that he had been “relentlessly attacked, bullied and harassed by BDS-affiliated organizations and students.” UCLA’s student government passed a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution in 2014. The campus has hosted Hamas-supporting and Jew-hating speakers who support the BDS movement, including BDS founder Omar Barghouti and Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abuminah. It has sponsored a “Palestine Awareness Week” during which students promoted BDS and displayed a mock “apartheid wall” in an attempt to characterize Israel as an apartheid state and justify its destruction. In addition, UCLA hosted a “Nakba Week” marking the creation of Israel as a “catastrophe” – a term used by Hamas and its supporters to promote the lie that the Jews stole Arab land (it had belonged to the Turks for 400 years and was forfeited when the Turks were defeated in World War I). Prompted by SJP and the Muslim Students Association, UCLA’s student government attempted to force candidates for its offices to pledge not to accept trips to Israel sponsored by pro-Israel organizations.
Supporting Evidence:
September 01, 2016: UCLA Graduate Student Association (GSA) President Milan Chatterjee announced in a lengthy letter that he is leaving his post and UCLA Law School as a result of the “hostile and unsafe campus climate” created by groups supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on campus and the UCLA administration. Chatterjee described in his letter how he had “been relentlessly attacked, bullied and harassed by BDS-affiliated organizations and students” who objected to his attempts to distribute student fee monies in a “viewpoint neutral” manner with regard to the BDS movement.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/8800/ucla-student-president-leaves-due-anti-israel-pardes-seleh
August 22, 2016: UCLA SJP announced on its Facebook page that it is endorsing the political platform of Black Lives Matter, which includes a section of the BLM platform that embraces the Hamas propaganda lies against Israel and its terrorist cause. UCLA SJP stated: “We are moved by the platform’s recognition of Israel’s apartheid laws, illegal settlements, segregated road systems and military checkpoints, punitive home demolitions, and prison system, through which Palestinians, including children, are routinely subject to harassment and torture. As campus organizers, we also welcome [Black Lives Matter’s] endorsement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), particularly given the current climate of anti-boycott legislation that we face, and we echo its acknowledgment of the US’s culpability in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, notably through military aid, diplomatic support, and investment in private prison companies.”https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/posts/1042450125823867
May 16, 2016: In a piece published in the Daily Bruin, two UCLA students and one psychology department staff member mourned the “Nakba” – the catastrophe of Israel’s creation by the United Nations - and Israel’s alleged “massive campaign of ethnic cleansing.” They demanded “the full right of return” for Palestinians – representing a plan to flood Israel with Palestinians who had never lived in Israel and obliterate the Jewish state—one of the goals of Hamas.
http://dailybruin.com/2016/05/16/submission-palestianian-ethnic-cleansing-from-israel-is-ongoing-must-be-stopped/
April 19, 2016: In response to anti-BDS posters created by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, UCLA Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang sent an email to the 50,000 members of the UCLA community attacking Horowitz –calling the posters “repulsive” and “personalized intimidation” and stating that they produce “chilling psychological harm” that “cannot be dismissed as over-sensitivity.” Vice Chancellor Kang also pronounced them “hateful” and “thuggish” and claimed that they utilized the “tactic of guilt by association, of using blacklists, of ethnic slander, and sensationalized images engineered to trigger racially tinged fear.”
The posters can be viewed here: http://www.stopthejewhatredoncampus.org/news/posters-target-bds-activists-five-campuses
http://dailybruin.com/2016/04/19/ucla-officials-denounce-david-horowitz-posters-as-intimidation/
April 14, 2016: UCLA’s Center for Near East Studies sponsored an address by Noga Kadman on her book “Erased From Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948.” During the address, Kadman accused Israel of conducting a “massacre” of the Palestinians, a claim that is historically false and a staple of anti-Israel propaganda.
https://www.facebook.com/UCLAInternationalInstitute/posts/10156840692785707
http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/podcast/164112
February 09, 2016: SJP members published an op-ed in the Daily Bruin falsely claiming that Israel treats its Palestinians as “second class citizens” and arguing that the genocidal chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not in fact a call for genocide: “A phrase used by pro-Palestinian activists is that ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ which was referenced in last week’s article. Palestine is the name many use to refer to the geographic region that encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The call for the entire region to be free is not a call for annihilation, but rather a call for everyone living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, be they Palestinian or Israeli, to live with the same freedoms that currently only the Jewish Israelis are granted.” Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority has declared that no Jews will be allowed in a free Palestine, while the Hamas charter clearly states that Jews will be exterminated.
http://dailybruin.com/2016/02/09/submission-sjp-emphasizes-that-pro-palestinian-does-not-mean-anti-israeli/
January 25-28, 2016: UCLA-SJP held its annual “Palestine Awareness Week” on campus. The week featured numerous anti-Israel speakers who voiced their support for the genocidal BDS movement against Israel including Max Blumenthal, who has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, Miko Peled, and Sa’ed Atshan. The event also featured the display of a mock “apartheid wall” plastered with anti-Israel propaganda. It was billed on Facebook as “a week full of FREE events to raise awareness about the Palestinian struggle for justice and the Palestinian people’s resistance against the Israeli occupation.”
During his address, Blumenthal stated that suicide bombing against Jews is justified by “the occupation” and described Palestinian terrorists as “young men who took up arms to fight their occupier.” He also promoted the BDS movement and compared Israel to the Islamic state, calling it “‘JSIL,’ the Jewish State in Israel and the Levant” and stating his belief that Israel collaborates with ISIS “to collapse Jewish life in the diaspora.” Miko Peled also defended terrorism, stating that it is “a struggle for freedom and justice and equality,” and describing terrorists as “very brave Palestinians who are engaged in fighting this brutal occupation.” He also declared that “any resistance, even armed resistance is legally and morally justifiable and perfectly understandable.” Peled also described Jews as analogous to Hitler, calling Jewish soldiers “young little Jewish gestapos,” and further accused Israel of “massive, violent, brutal oppression,” “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” and of being “a colonialist, apartheid, racist system.” He also endorsed the BDS movement.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1526425087651534/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-uclosangeles/
December 09, 2015: A UCLA student who was also employed at a UCLA-affiliated medical center posted a vicious, hate-filled, anti-Semitic rant on social media which stated in part: “Fucking Jews. GTFOH with all your Zionist bullshit. Crazy ass fucking troglodyte albino monsters of cultural destruction. Fucking Jews. GTFOH with your whiny bullshit. Give the Palestinians back their land, go back to Poland or whatever freezer-state you’re from, and realize that faith does not constitute race.”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/2247/ucla-student-working-david-geffen-medical-center-pardes-seleh
November 06, 2015: UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies held a conference on “Palestine and Pedagogy” during which speakers compared Israel to the Nazis, praised anti-Israel terrorism and supported the BDS movement against Israel. UC Irvine Professor and Director of the UC Institute for Humanities Research Theo Goldberg accused Israel of practicing “eliminationist racism” such as used by the Nazis and claimed Israelis view Palestinians as “vermin, cockroaches, rats, snakes…that take boots on the ground to get rid of,” and of possessing “a commitment to purification.” Goldberg’s libels also included the false accusation that Israelis make “snuff films” featuring the deaths of innocent Palestinians which go viral resulting in “an orgasm of feeling” for Israelis. UC Riverside Professor David Lloyd called Israel “a colonial Zionist project that has become a…nightmare, ever more rigid and oppressive.” He endorsed the right of Palestinians to take up arms against Israel and also promoted the BDS movement.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/11440
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-uclosangeles/
October 29, 2015: UCLA-SJP created a blog post listing the names of 44 Palestinians who were allegedly “killed by Israelis and the Israeli Defense Forces since Oct. 1, the beginning of the third Intifada.” According to the Amcha Initiative, the list “included numerous terrorists who had murdered or injured Jews.”
http://www.sjpbruins.com/news--opinion/palestinians-are-dying-too
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-uclosangeles/
July 8, 2015: UCLA-SJP reposted an article on their Facebook page mourning the one-year anniversary of the Israeli response to thousands of unprovoked Hamas rocket attacks on civilian areas - “Operation Protective Edge.” SJP parroted Hamas claims that this was a “brutal military attack.” Students for Justice in Palestine have supported the Hamas terrorists in all their aggressions against the Jews during the Gaza conflicts. Israel withdrew its military forces from Gaza in 2005 as a gesture of peace. SJP: “One year ago today, Israel launched a brutal military attack on the Palestinian population of the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children, and more than 10,000 people were seriously injured and hundreds of thousands were made homeless, forcibly displaced and trapped inside Gaza. Deliberate attacks on Palestinian civilians of this kind are part and parcel of an Israeli policy that aims to force Palestinians into submission and to thwart the Palestinian people’s exercise of its right to self-determination.” Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 after being invaded by Egyptian armies three times through the strip. Israel’s military precautions were taken because of 7,000 unprovoked Hamas rocket attacks following the withdrawal.
Another SJP article posted on this date regurgitates preposterous Hamas propaganda about the Gaza conflict: “The war in the summer of 2014 was not about rocket fire, Israeli security or Hamas: it was about subduing and disabling Gaza, something Israel has consistently been trying to do ever since it occupied the territory together with the West Bank nearly fifty years ago.” Israel’s original occupation of Gaza and the West Bank was the result of unprovoked aggressive wars by five Arab states in 1948 and 1967 and the refusal of the Arab states to sign a peace treaty. SJP’s sole purpose is to promote Hamas war propaganda designed to demonize the Jews of Israel, support the aggressions of their terrorist enemies, and destroy the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/posts/829328353802713
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/posts/829328230469392
May 21, 2015: UCLA-SJP designated the week of May 21 – the anniversary of Israel’s creation - “Nakba Week.” Events included a teach-in on “Refugees and the Right of Return,” so-called, and a panel titled “Hear Us Speak: Stories on the Nakba and Exile.” The word “Nakba” means “catastrophe” in Arabic and is used by Hamas and its supporters to describe the creation of Israel and to promote the lie that Israel was created on Arab land. It was not. It was created by the UN on land that had belonged to the Turks, who are not Arabs, for 400 years previously. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan were created in the same way.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1445355849109611/
May 16, 2015: UCLA SJP posted a statement on its Facebook page mourning “al-Nakba,” and insisted that it be thought of as “a present reality rather than a past event.” The statement read in part: “Many of us don’t realize that every Palestinian we meet, regardless of where they are from, has had their life profoundly shaped by the ethnic cleansing of Palestine on May 15, 1948. This event, known as al-Nakba (“the catastrophe”), was not just a one-time event but is ongoing, as Palestinians are continuously displaced by illegal Israeli settlements, and by devastating attacks. The Palestinian diaspora is faced with ongoing exile and statelessness, and by an erasure of their histories. It is our hope that these photos will help shed some light on how our fellow students at UCLA find the Nakba to be a present reality rather than a past event.” This is a tissue of lies. The displacement of some Palestinian Arabs was the result of the unprovoked aggressive war launched in 1948 by five Arab dictatorships against the tiny Israeli democracy. More than one million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel today and enjoy more civil rights and protections than the Arabs of any Middle Eastern state, including especially the totalitarian theocracies in the West Bank and Gaza.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/timeline/story?ut=43&wstart=1420099200&wend=1451635199&hash=-4928003477301579964&pagefilter=3
April 2015: UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies invited vehement anti-Israel professor Cornel West to speak on a panel honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
http://www.jewhatredoncampus.org/news/organizations-slam-ucla-jewish-studies-inviting-anti-israel-activist
March 2015: When the Stop Jew Hatred on Campus campaign (an action of the David Horowitz Freedom Center) conducted a postering campaign depicting SJP as “#JewHaters,” UCLA Chancellor Gene Block called the posters “another example of intolerance” and compared them to swastikas found on Jewish fraternity buildings.
http://www.jewhatredoncampus.org/news/ucla-chancellor-compares-anti-sjp-posters-swastikas
March 06, 2015: Four UCLA professors were among the signatories of an op-ed appearing in the Daily Californian urging the administrators of the UC system to support the BDS Movement against Israel. Those professors are Nouri Gana, Sondra Hale, Chris Tilly, and Marie Kennedy.
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/06/statement-uc-faculty-divestment-israel/
March 4, 2015: UCLA-SJP held an event with two speakers in favor of the “Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/1408915022744113/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&feed_story_type=17&action_history=null
February 2015: Members of UCLA’s student government repeated age-old anti-Semitic accusations of “divided loyalties” to question whether judicial board candidate Rachel Beyda’s status as a Jew would affect her objectivity in disciplinary decisions.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/opinions/kosmin-anti-semitism-campus/
February 24, 2015: UCLA-SJP held an event to support the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS campaign to strangle the Jewish state - “BDS in Action.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/842030259189258/
November 5, 2014: UCLA held a speaker event with Steven Salaita who was fired from the University of Illinois for his numerous bigoted statements about Jews and Israelis.
http://dailybruin.com/2014/11/05/submission-university-irresponsible-for-inviting-controversial-speaker-to-campus/
www.twitter.com/stevesalaita/status/459722797481476096
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/08/anti-israel-prof-loses-job-offer-at-u-illinois-over-hateful-tweets//#more
November 2014: UCLA’s student government passed a BDS resolution by an 8-2-2 vote.
http://dailybruin.com/2014/11/19/usac-passes-divestment-resolution/
www.dailybruin.com/2014/11/18/usac-passes-divestment-resolution-with-8-2-2-vote
November 3-7, 2014: UCLA-SJP hosted a Palestine Awareness Week featuring a mock apartheid wall praising terrorists and demonizing Jews, and also an event called “Roadmap to Divestment: a screening and discussion.”
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/photos/ms.c.eJw1ysEJACAMA8CNJK1N0~_y~;mIL4PDjBcICc7Kpaeu4s7wh800FLem7l~;RzpAJk2DN0~-.bps.a.709091052493111.1073741833.190981677637387/709091055826444/?type=1&theater
http://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/AMCHA-Initiative-Report-on-UCLA-2014.pdf
May 14, 2014: SJP brought Communist party spokesperson and BDS proponent Angela Davis to campus. She told the crowd that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is worse than the treatment of blacks under apartheid in South Africa. Davis was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the East German police state during the Cold War.
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/angela-davis-in-conversation-w-asli-bali-robin-dg-kelley-tickets-11519971545
http://dailybruin.com/2014/05/15/activist-angela-davis-addresses-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303
April 2014: Event with Ali Abuminah titled “No Rest Until We Divest.” Abuminah has accused Israel of practicing “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “attempted genocide” against the Palestinians, as well as trying “to bomb its way to legitimacy.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/225934717601992/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regularhttp://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1426
May 2014: SJP introduced an initiative that would require candidates for student government to sign a pledge to not take trips to Israel sponsored by the pro-Israel organizations, AIPAC, ADL, or Hasbara Fellowships. Candidates were not asked to refuse trips from other organizations to other countries.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/11/just-wait-until-you-hear-what-ucla-student-government-candidates-are-being-asked-to-sign/
January 2014: Speaker event with the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti. Barghouti opposed the existence of a Jewish state and Jewish rights to self-determination in Israel, and slandered Israel repeatedly.
www.vimeo.com/75201955
www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/omar_barghouti_at_ucla_echoes_of_1930s_europe
www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/omar_barghouti_at_ucla_no_to_bds_no_to_occupation
https://www.facebook.com/events/720804964603810/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
University of Chicago:
The University of Chicago is home to a highly active BDS campus movement, U of C Divest, which has gained the support of over 20 student organizations on the campus and succeeded last spring in passing a BDS resolution in Chicago’s student government. During the debate over the measure, an amendment supporting the continued self-determination of the Jewish people and the existence of Israel was proposed and rejected. U. Chicago’s SJP chapter has brought numerous anti-Israel speakers to campus including BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti who condoned anti-Israel terrorism in his address to students. Chicago SJP also interrupted an Israeli Independence Day celebration with a commemoration of the “Nakba,” an Arabic word used by Hamas to describe the creation of Israel as a “catastrophe,” and has held numerous other events attempting to delegitimize Israel and make the argument that “resistance” against the Jewish state (a euphemism for terrorism) is justified.
Supporting Evidence:
June 02, 2016: U. Chicago-SJP shared a post on its Facebook page from the Boycott Tel Aviv Pride campaign urging people to boycott gay pride events in Tel Aviv because “any cultural event organized with money from the Israeli state should be boycotted… Gay tourism financial revenues do not only stimulate Israel’s economy, they are considered a direct investment in Israel’s war machine.” No other Middle Eastern state tolerates gays let alone features gay pride parades. The SJP leftists are willing to sacrifice their traditional support for gays in the service of the Hamas terror campaign to destroy the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/942145792549444
May 23-28, 2016: SJP held “Palestinian Nakba Week” on campus. The “Nakba” is an Arabic term meaning “catastrophe” which Hamas uses to refer to the day of Israel’s founding and to spread the lie that Israel was created on land belonging to the Arabs. Israel was created by the United Nations on land that had belonged to the Turks – who are not Arabs – for 400 years previously. Events during the week included a talk on “Disrupting Israeli Apartheid: Civil Disobedience in Palestine” and “Nakba 101: A discussion.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/1723219794630350/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1684747235126020/
https://www.facebook.com/events/240063779700424/
May 15, 2016: U. Chicago SJP posted a video purporting to show facts about the creation of Israel on its Facebook page, while drawing the conclusion that Israel has no right to exist. The video hews to the false Hamas narrative that Israel colonized Palestine, displacing its existing citizens. In truth, there was no nation of Palestine at the time of Israel’s creation, and the land on which Israel was created belonged to the Turks who are not Arabs for 400 years previously. The video claims that Israel “occupied the rest of historic Palestine during the Six Day War,” but fails to mention that Israel was the victim of a war of unprovoked aggression by five Arab dictatorships whose expressed goal was to “push the Jews into the sea.” It also fails to mention that for fifty years the Arabs have refused to sign a peace with Israel, recognizing its right to exist.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/931756886921668
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/730476790427164/
May 12, 2016: U. Chicago SJP disrupted a celebration of Israeli Independence Day on campus by holding a protest of the “Palestinian Nakba,” a term meaning “catastrophe” that is used by Hamas to deplore the creation of Israel, and spread the lie that Israel was created on Arab land. SJP’s description of the event read: “SJP at the University of Chicago today marked the 68th anniversary of the beginning of the Palestinian Nakba by protesting Israeli Independence Day, which was organized by a Zionist student group with most of the free goodies passed out donated by Stand With Us and Birthright.
“Under the Israeli Independence tent, American students discussed their ‘Birthright’ to Israel while on the other side Palestinian students shared their families’ stories of being forced from their homes and turned into stateless refugees.” Virtually all of the Arab refugees fled of their own free will, while nearly one million stayed. Moreover, the Palestinian refugees are stateless because no Arab state will grant them citizenship, while the terrorist regimes in the West Bank and Gaza refuse to re-settle them.
Protest signs displayed by SJP parroted Hamas war propaganda. One read “Come enjoy ‘Israeli’ food and settler colonialism,” and “Displacing lives since ’48, there’s nothing here to celebrate,” while another condemned Israel for “Ethnic cleansing” and “Cultural appropriation” – lies designed to delegitimize and destroy the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/930107193753304
April 12, 2016: The student government at the University of Chicago passed a resolution calling on the University to divest from companies which aid or profit from Israel’s“violation of human rights and international law in Palestine.” The motion passed by a vote of 8-4 with 3 abstentions and was supported by 20 leftwing student organizations on campus and organized by a coalition calling itself U of C Divest. During the debate over the measure, an amendment supporting the continued self-determination of the Jewish people and the existence of Israel was proposed and rejected.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/913956835368340
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
April 07, 2016: In preparation for a vote on a BDS resolution, the U of Chicago Divest Coalition published an open letter in The Chicago Maroon, a campus newspaper, labeling Israel an apartheid state and urging the university community to endorse the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS campaign to strangle the Jewish state. The letter – a tissue of lies - claimed: “Palestinians today face a comprehensive system of occupation, dispossession, and segregation—in short, apartheid. Their cities are bombed, resources stolen, children kidnapped, and movement restricted… Our resolution, while targeted, supports the full demands of the BDS call: an end to the occupation, equality for all people in Palestine/Israel, and the right of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.”
http://chicagomaroon.com/2016/04/07/letter-uofc-divest-calls-for-divestment-from-israel/
March 28, 2016: The U of C Divest coalition held a large rally on campus featuring a 70 foot Palestinian flag with students displaying banners and chanting propaganda slogans to support the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS movement. The chants included: “Brick by brick, wall by wall, Israeli apartheid has to fall,” “Free free Palestine, viva viva Palestina,” and “Hey hey, ho ho, Israeli apartheid’s got to go.” Banners displayed on campus read: “End Apartheid,” “Free Palestine,” and “Divest Now.” Israel is not only the most tolerant society in the Middle East. It is the only tolerant society in the Middle East.
http://chicagomaroon.com/2016/04/01/push-for-divestment-from-some-companies-active-in-israel-looks-for-cc-resolution/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
February 18, 2016: Angry protestors interrupted and threatened a Palestinian human rights activist, Bassam Eid, who came to speak on U. Chicago’s campus about the oppression of Palestinians by the theocratic terrorist regimes in the West Bank and Gaza. SJP activists were upset that Eid’s remarks were critical of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and failed to condemn Israel for its alleged “occupation” of Palestine. In the video of Eid’s speech a young man can be seen screaming in Arabic: “I’m going to destroy this place!” and “I’m going to kill this motherf*****!” and “Wait until you go to your car!” Eid later declared himself to be “terrified” by the ordeal.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/21/palestinian-human-rights-activists-receives-death-threats-from-anti-israel-protesters-during-u-of-chicago-lecture-video/
October 29, 2015: UC-SJP hosted BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti for a speech on “BDS and the Ethical Obligation to End Complicity in Oppression.” During his address, Barghouti labeled Israel “a regime of oppression” and a “savage unrepairable society” that conducts “ethnic cleansing.” Barghouti also praised terrorism against Israel’s Jews, stating that “resistance” is a legitimate response to “the violence of an oppressive system.” Several UC organizations and departments co-sponsored Barghouti’s address including the Global Voices Program – University of Chicago International House, the Pozen Center for Human Rights, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of International Studies.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
October 28, 2015: UC-SJP held a panel titled “Jerusalem in Crisis: Insider Perspectives on the Violence in Palestine-Israel” as part of the “UChicago Israeli Apartheid Week.” Speakers at the event were two graduate student members of SJP. One of the speakers praised anti-Israel terrorism, stating: “Palestinian violent resistance against the violent Israeli military is always justified; it is the equivalent of biting the hand that is trying to choke you to death.” http://chicagomaroon.com/2015/10/30/sjp-sponsored-panel-talks-palestinian-history-contemporary-politics/
October 14, 2015: U. Chicago SJP held a Palestinian Day of Action, in concurrence with an international Day of Action to promote the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS campaign against Israel. The event included plastering the campus with posters falsely accusing the Israeli military of murdering Palestinian children.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/821998991230792
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
February 27, 2015: Anti-Semitic comments threatening the genocide of the Jews were posted on the social media site Yik Yak in the University of Chicago area. Some of the comments attacked individual students, while others threatened the Jewish people as a whole. One comment read, “Gas them, burn them and dismantle their power structure. Humanity cannot progress with the parasitic Jew.” This is Nazism, and all too characteristic of SJP propaganda.
http://newyork.adl.org/anti-semitic-incidents-on-college-campuses-in-2015/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
University of Tennessee Knoxville:
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has a highly active SJP chapter that hosts annual Israeli Apartheid Weeks on campus to demonize the Jewish state. Numerous members of the chapter have shared pro-Hitler and pro-terrorist comments on social media including “Wish Hitler was still around to show you guys” and “Hitler had a lot of great ideas.” Slogans on their most recent “apartheid wall” included endorsements of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and praise for terrorist violence against Israel. UTK-SJP has also displayed the genocidal series of maps created by Hamas which falsely depict a mythical Arab Palestine in 1947 being overrun and colonized by Jews. UTK-SJP has hosted numerous anti-Israel speakers including BDS activist Allison Weir and pro-terrorist poet Remi Kanazi. UTK-SJP has also disrupted pro-Israel events on campus.
Supporting Evidence:
June 02, 2016: UTK-SJP added its name to a letter from SJP National protesting a decision by the San Francisco State University administration to investigate the actions of a pro-Palestinian group known as the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) who disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, on April 6, shouting exhortations to terrorist violence. SFSU students involved in the protest entered the auditorium carrying Palestinian flags and wearing checkered kaffiyehs which are symbols of anti-Jewish terrorism. The demonstrators shouted “Intifada” - a call for terrorism against Israel’s Jews - and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a slogan calling for the obliteration of Israel (which is bounded by the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea) and its Jews. The letter stated: “We condemn SFSU President’s pledge to open a ‘full investigation’ into the protest and condemn the President’s pledge to prevent peaceful student dissent in the future. Such actions create a chilling effect undermining activism and freedom of speech for students advocating for justice and freedom in Palestine.”
https://www.facebook.com/SJP.National/posts/1058448970859732
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/08/san-francisco-state-u-to-launch-investigation-after-jewish-groups-denounce-shout-down-of-jerusalem-mayors-speech/#
April 04, 2016: UTK-SJP hosted an event featuring two students from Birzeit University and Al Quds University to speak about “their experiences as students under Israeli occupation as well as Israel’s systematic obstruction of Palestinian education and access to education.” Both Birzeit and Al Quds are well-known recruitment grounds for Hamas and both schools have hosted Hamas rallies.
https://www.facebook.com/sjputk/posts/1010915285668256
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/world/middleeast/hamas-wins-the-hearts-of-students-at-west-bank-campus-election.html?_r=0
March 02, 2016: SJP created and displayed an “Israeli apartheid” wall as part of Israeli Apartheid Week on campus. Slogans on the wall included the phrase “To Exist is to Resist” a justification for anti-Jewish terrorism. The wall also contained a series of Hamas propaganda maps purporting to show a non-existent Palestinian state in 1947 subsequently being overrun and colonized by Jews. These fraudulent maps were designed by Hamas to justify the extermination of the Jews, as called for in the Hamas Charter, and the destruction of the Jewish state. Statements on the wall further denigrated Israel – the only tolerant democracy in the entire Middle East – as an “Apartheid State” and supported the BDS movement. They included an appeal to the University to “de-shelve Sabra Humus” – an Israeli product – because it “profits off the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
https://www.facebook.com/sjputk/photos/a.417930848300039.96469.416682118424912/986087104817741/?type=3&theater
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#utenn
February 22, 2016: When the Judaic Studies program at Tennessee hosted a talk by Professor Michael Brenner on “The Idea of a Jewish State from Herzl to Netanyahu,” fifteen student protestors from SJP disrupted the event by holding signs with pro-Hamas sentiments such as “Israel is an apartheid state.” The protestors also distributed flyers which “defined Israeli occupation, pointed out the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and highlighted the undertones of ethnic cleansing inherent in the history of the state of Israel.”
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#utenn
http://www.utdailybeacon.com/opinion/article_c8a032e0-dab2-11e5-9e5f-57e6f3108030.html
October 25, 2015: UTK-SJP hosted the pro-terrorist poet Remi Kanazi. Kanazi has called Israel “a racist state built on stolen Palestinian land” and falsely claimed that Israel is “maintained through ethnic cleansing, occupation, bombing campaigns, draconian laws, settlements, outposts, colonizer roads, siege, blockade, chemical warfare, an apartheid wall, home demolitions, control of borders/imports/exports/water aquifers/air/sea/taxes/currency, the denial of family reunification, jailing of children, night raids, administrative detention, uprooting olive groves, restriction on movement, denying refugees the ability to return, and much more.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/493662944124300/
https://www.facebook.com/psc.harvard/posts/539842142724556
April 18, 2013: UTK-SJP joined UTK’s political science department and several campus organizations to sponsor a talk by anti-Israel activist Allison Weir on “What the Media Leaves Out.” In her speech, Weir stated, “American taxpayers give Israel 8 million dollars per day… And yet most of us don’t know about that. I saw people being destroyed with American money. Americans don’t know they’re doing this to them. Our media doesn't tell us.” In fact US aid is used to provide Israel with anti-missile defenses against the 100,000 Hezbollah and Hamas rockets aimed at the Jewish homeland.
http://www.utdailybeacon.com/news/weir-speaks-on-palestine-inaccurate-media-coverage/article_af16bce1-77f7-5244-8332-5f764f69b9f1.html
2013: SJP was created as an official student group at UT-Knoxville. The faculty advisor for the group at its founding was Dr. Brian Barber, who heads UTK’s Center for the Study of Youth in Political Conflict. Barber is a 1996-1997 grant recipient from the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, now called the Palestine Center, which is the educational arm of the Jerusalem Fund, an organization that holds regular events supporting the BDS movement to strangle the Jewish state, and condemning the “occupation” of Israel. The current faculty advisor is Dr. Drew Paul, a professor of Arabic language and literature.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/217808/ut-knoxvilles-newest-student-anti-israel-hate-david-james
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/category/past-events
https://utk.collegiatelink.net/organization/sjp/about
2012-Present: Many UTK-SJP members have praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and made anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist comments on social media. In 2012, SJP member Mohamed Ali stated his admiration for Hitler in a tweet which read: “Had to write about a leader for DCL class. Wrote about Hitler. Cuz he’s a boss.” Fellow SJP member Eyad Hijr attacked a Jewish student on social media in 2014, stating “haha go kill yourself,” and “…I already hate you. You dirty filthy Jew. All your people do is f***ed s*** up. Wish Hitler was still around to show you guys.” Also in 2014, SJP member Hesham Annamer, who was later nominated for the board of the Muslim Students Association at UTK, wrote on twitter, “Hitler had a lot of great ideas. We need a guy like that in the White House.” In 2015, UTK-SJP President Stori Nuri tweeted the following anti-Semitic joke: “Jew test: Throw a penny. If they pick it up they’re a Jew.” The joke was followed by three laughing emojis.
SJP-UTK members have also praised anti-Israel terrorism on social media. Amira Sakalla, the founder of UTK-SJP, retweeted the announcement of another twitter user, “Today marks the 26th anniversary of the First #Intifada #Palestine” to which she added, “About time for another one…”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/04/exclusive-cesspool-of-antisemitic-anti-israel-racist-behavior-at-u-of-tennessee-uncovered-by-watchdog-group/
Vassar College:
Vassar College is a small liberal arts school, yet its support of anti-Israel terrorists is equal to that of many much larger campuses. Vassar is home to a highly active Hamas-inspired and funded boycott movement that passed a BDS resolution on campus last spring. The campus chapter of SJP also distributed a pamphlet titled “Boycotts Work: An Interview with Omar Barghouti.” Barghouti is the founder of the BDS movement, a genocidal attempt orchestrated by terrorists to strangle the Jewish state. Vassar SJP celebrated terrorism by selling T-shirts picturing convicted anti-Israel terrorist Leila Khaled holding a gun with the words “Resistance is not Terrorism.” It also posted on its Facebook page a 1940’s era anti-Semitic Nazi graphic.
Supporting Evidence:
April 01, 2016: The Vassar BDS coalition launched a referendum to support a pro-BDS amendment. In the Facebook announcement of the referendum, the coalition blamed the amendment’s prior failure on pressure from the administration: “We recognize that this was largely due to administration’s intimidation. Their threat to defund the Vassar Student Association for performing its duties demonstrated the degree to which BDS represents a threat to the State of Israel, and the fragility of student democracy on this campus.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/244817842534367/
March 20, 2016: The anti-Israel, pro-BDS organization Jewish Voice for Peace published an article in the campus paper titled “BDS Vital Step Toward Colonial Resistance.” The article lauded the genocidal and Hamas-inspired BDS campaign against Israel and demonized Israel by stating that “The BDS Movement combats anti-Arab racism inherent in Israel’s ongoing colonization of Arab lands.”
http://miscellanynews.org/2016/04/20/opinions/bds-vital-step-toward-colonial-resistance/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
March 06, 2016: In a vote of 15-7, the Vassar Student Association passed a BDS resolution against Israel. During the discussion prior to the vote, pro-BDS students mocked and laughed at a Jewish student who was crying as she described how the BDS campaign made her extremely anxious. When another Jewish student brought up the Holocaust, he was accused of using it to score political points and justify the “genocide” of another people.
http://forward.com/opinion/335947/how-jewish-students-like-me-got-bullied-at-vassar-bds-vote/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
February 23, 2016: SJP at Vassar hosted a workshop titled “The Case for BDS.” A description of the event called for Israel to act in ways that would destroy the Jewish state making it vulnerable to Palestinian terror attacks by ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall” (i.e., its security fence) and “Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.” The UN resolution does not stipulate a right of return for 5 million so-called refugees who never spent in a day of their lives in Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1722584587977079/
February 17, 2016: Vassar SJP distributed a pamphlet titled “Boycotts Work: An Interview with Omar Barghouti.” Barghouti is the founder of the modern BDS movement, a genocidal attempt inspired and funded by Hamas to destroy Israel. In the interview distributed by SJP, Barghouti claims that “it’s really very hypocritical and deceptive to call the academic boycott a form of infringement on academic freedom.”
http://miscellanynews.org/2016/02/17/features/orgs-split-on-how-to-show-israel-palestine-solidarity/
February 11, 2016: Vassar SJP celebrated terrorism by selling T-shirts picturing convicted terrorist Leila Khaled holding a gun with the words “Resistance is not Terrorism” written below the graphic. SJP Vassar’s post further endorsed the T-shirt’s message of support for terrorism: “Check out our friends at Existence is Resistance!!! They will be selling sweet fucking antiZionist gear at our events. 100% of profits goes towards organizing Palestinian resistance #ExistenceisResistance”
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatVC/photos/a.569972329734862.1073741828.569630543102374/1026058340792923/?type=3&theater
February 10, 2016: The Grassroots Alliance for Alternative Politics (GAAP) endorsed Vassar SJP’s statement supporting BDS and released their own BDS endorsement which read, in part: “The Israeli State and its occupation of Palestinian homelands violates basic human rights such as the right to self-determination and nationality, perpetuates horrific violence on both state and interpersonal levels, and continues the historical tradition of racist imperialism (amongst other atrocities). We support BDS as a means to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against an oppressive force.” The Israeli state does not occupy any “Palestinian homelands.” Israel was created on land that belonged to the Turks, who are not Arabs or Palestinians for 400 years previously. All other “occupations” are the result of 70 years of unprovoked Arab wars against Israel and the refusal of the Arabs to sign a peace that recognizes Israel’s right to exist.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatVC/posts/1025461914185899
February 05, 2016: Anti-Semitic comments were posted on the social media site YikYak for the Vassar College area. These remarks included “f-ck Jews” and “you’re a retard and so are Zionists,” and “Jews through terrorism have kept Palestinians locked like animals in their home.”
http://miscellanynews.org/2016/02/10/opinions/antisemitism-present-in-antizionist-rhetoric/
February 03, 2016: Vassar Professor Jasbir Puar of the Women and Gender Studies Department gave a lecture on the topic “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters.” During her address, Puar urged Vassar to join the BDS movement against Israel and demonized the Jewish state with Hitlerian claims originating with Hamas that Israel“assassinates” teenagers, harvests organs from Palestinian prisoners, and acts to “maim” and “stunt” the growth of Palestinians by denying them basic resources. Puar’s talk was sponsored by several university departments including Jewish Studies, Political Science, International Studies, Africana Studies, English, and Women’s Studies.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
http://americanstudies.vassar.edu/news/2015-2016/160129-jasbir-puar.html
March 03, 2015: As part of Israeli Apartheid Week on campus, Vassar SJP co-sponsored a speech by Professor Sa’ed Atshan. The speech was also sponsored by several Vassar departments including the Political Science Department, Religion Department, International Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, and Africana Studies Program. Atshan used his address to promote the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel and advocated for Israel’s replacement by an Arab state.
https://www.facebook.com/events/338253006380345/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
May 2014: Anti-Israel students defaced and vandalized a pro-Israel “Wall of Truth” created by the Horowitz Freedom Center and displayed on campus by pro-Israel students to respond to SJP’s falsehoods.
www.legalinsurrection.com/2014/06/pro-israel-muslim-vassar-students-lonely-fight-to-defend-israel//#more
May 2014: Vassar SJP posted a “racist, anti-Semitic graphic” on its social media Tumbler page, depicting a 1940’s-era Nazi propaganda poster of a many-armed figure wearing a loincloth featuring the Star of David and holding a bag of money.
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/05/15/vassar-anti-semitic-palestine/9150095/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/05/vassar-president-condemns-racist-anti-semitic-graphic-posted-by-students-for-justice-in-palestine/
April 3, 2014: Protest/Disruption of Pro-Israel Events: SJP protested outside of a StandWithUs Israeli Soldiers’ Stories event. Five or six SJP students posted signs outside the event that read, “Israel is apartheid,” “Israel commits genocide,” and other demonizing lies against Israel. When the speaker, Hen Mazzig, tried to engage them and invited them to come attend the event and ask questions afterward, they responded by saying, “We don’t talk to occupiers,” and left as a group. This refusal to speak with supporters of Israel is a Hamas policy against “normalization” of relations with pro-Israel groups. http://miscellanynews.org/2014/04/02/opinions/campus-discourse-continues-to-be-strong/
http://www.israelmuse.com/2014/06/hen-mazzig-bds-bullies-take-over.html#.VNLngmjF8yQ
February 2014: SJP members picketed a course in which students would be taking a Vassar-sponsored trip to Israel, causing students to feel harassed and intimidated.
http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/195416/vassars-israel-debate-takes-raw-racial-turn/www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/03/26/shut-up-bds-explained-an-open-forum-at-vassar
September 2013: The Vassar College chapter of SJP is founded. On its Facebook page the chapter lists “the full decolonization of Palestinian lands” as its goal, which includes the state of Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatVC/info?tab=page_info
Fall 2008: Joshua Schreier, an Associate Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Vassar, released his course description for a class he teaches on “The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict.” Schreier is a supporter of the genocidal BDS movement against Israel. Schreier warns students that the class makes no pretense at objectivity: “Students should keep in mind that this course is NOT designed to present ‘an objective’ account of a ‘two-sided’ conflict.”
https://canarymission.org/professors/joshua-schreier/
1. Brooklyn College (CUNY)
2. San Diego State University
3. San Francisco State University
4. Tufts University
5. University of California Berkeley
6. University of California Irvine
7. University of California Los Angeles
8. University of Chicago
9. University of Tennessee Knoxville
10. Vassar College
(Note: the schools are listed in alphabetical order)
Introduction:
Across America college campuses are being flooded with pro-terrorist propaganda by groups supported by college administrators and student funds. These groups are led by Students for Justice in Palestine but they include the broad coalitions of the left which have become the breeding grounds for a new anti-Semitism. Boycott, Divest and Sanctions resolutions targeting the state of Israel for destruction are passed to chants of “Allahu Ahkbar,” while Jewish students are the targets of verbal and physical harassments which have reached epidemic proportions. This is a report on the 10 schools most supportive of the efforts of Students for Justice in Palestine and its allies, to demonize the state of Israel and bring about its destruction.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) portrays itself as a typical student organization and multicultural group advocating for “social justice” in the Middle East, but this image is a cleverly constructed disguise. Students for Justice in Palestine is not concerned about justice in Palestine where the Hamas regime steals hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid and uses it to dig terror tunnels whose only purpose is to murder Jews. In truth, SJP is a pro-terror organization that is funded by anti-Israel Hamas terrorists for the purpose of destroying Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, and committing genocide against its Jewish population as prescribed in the Hamas charter.
SJP is the chief promoter of the Hamas-inspired and funded Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, a genocidal effort to strangle Israel’s democracy and make it vulnerable to its enemies. Among SJP’s many activities in the service of Hamas is its sponsorship of “Israeli Apartheid” weeks featuring Hamas and BDS supporters as campus speakers and advancing the false claim that Israel is a racist state like South Africa and deserves to be destroyed. As part of the “Israeli Apartheid” hate weeks, SJP constructs “apartheid walls” in campus quads. These walls feature pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic propaganda, and celebrate notorious terrorists like Hamas-founder Sheik Yassin, who ordered the murder of nearly 400 Jews before his death. SJP creates mock checkpoints and die-ins that obstruct student movements on campus, disrupts pro-Israel campus events, and has physically assaulted Jewish students. In these activities, SJP functions as the most prominent pro-terrorist, anti-Jewish organization in America, and provides a key recruiting tool for terrorists in the Middle East who are seeking to obliterate the only democracy in the Middle East and its Jews.
SJP’s pro-terror campaign is guided and funded through a Hamas front called American Muslims for Palestine, whose principals were defendants in the Holy Land Foundation trial in which they were found to be funneling charitable contributions to Hamas. In recent testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Jonathan Schanzer, who worked as a terrorism finance analyst for the United States Department of the Treasury from 2004-2007, and now serves as the Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), described how Hamas funnels large sums of money and provides material assistance to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) through a Hamas front group called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) for the purpose of promoting BDS campaigns on American campuses.
AMP was created by Hatem Bazian, a pro-terrorist professor at UC Berkeley who is also the co-founder of SJP. Schanzer describes AMP as “arguably the most important sponsor and organizer for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which is the most visible arm of the BDS campaign on campuses in the United States.” He details how AMP “provides speakers, training, printed materials, a so-called ‘Apartheid Wall,’ and grants to SJP activists” and “even has a campus coordinator on staff whose job is to work directly with SJP and other pro-BDS campus groups across the country.” Furthermore, “according to an email it sent to subscribers, AMP spent $100,000 on campus activities in 2014 alone.”
The following report describes the typical activities of SJP, which is officially recognized and financially supported by its host universities. Thus the 10 universities singled out in this report (the total number hosting SJP and related organizations is well over 100) are supporting an anti-Semitic, pro-terror campaign, which is hostile not only to Israel and its Jews but to the United States of America as well. This presence of a genocidal, terrorist support movement on elite campuses across America is probably the most under-reported story of our times.
The Top Ten Schools Supporting Terrorists
Brooklyn College:
Brooklyn College, one of several schools making up the City University of New York (CUNY) system, is home to one of the most active and extreme SJP chapters in the nation. Brooklyn College SJP has posted articles and videos online defending terrorism including an advertisement titled “The Third Intifada” on its Facebook page. It has hosted multiple speakers on the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and even an event to discuss its policy of refusing to dialogue or establish “normalization” with pro-Israel organizations and students. A gang of 10 anti-Israel activists recently stormed a campus faculty meeting, calling one faculty member a “Zionist pig” and issuing demands for “Zionists off campus.”
Supporting Evidence:
May 15, 2016: Brooklyn College SJP held a demonstration at City Hall Park in New York to commemorate “Al-Nakba.” Nakba is an Arabic term meaning “catastrophe” that is used by Hamas and its supporters to describe the creation of Israel. For the record, Israel was created by the United Nations on land that belonged to the Turks (who are not Arabs, let alone “Palestinians”) for 400 years previously. Israel was created in the same way Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq were created, without becoming the targets of terrorist aggression.
“Nakba Day”: https://www.facebook.com/events/1720235081568888/
April 15, 2016: The Doctoral Students Council of the City University of New York (CUNY), of which Brooklyn College is a subsidiary, voted 42-19-9 in favor of a resolution calling for a boycott of “Israeli academic institutions for as long as the Israeli state continues to violate Palestinian rights under international law,” thereby endorsing the Hamas-inspired BDS movement and its false claims that Israel violates Palestinian rights. In fact, the million plus Arabs who are Israeli citizens have more rights than the Arabs of any other Middle Eastern state, including the territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160416-city-university-of-new-york-graduates-endorse-academic-boycott-of-israel/
April 03, 2016: Brooklyn College SJP posted an article defending terrorism and the BDS movement.
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/posts/1021316804607995
February 17, 2016: A gang of approximately 10 anti-Israel activists stormed a campus faculty meeting, calling one faculty member a “Zionist pig” and issuing demands for “Zionists off campus” and for an end to supposedly “racist” course offerings. Some of the faculty present applauded the student demands.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/brooklyn-college-students-demand-zionists-off-campus/
November 26, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP shared a video link on its Facebook page purporting to show the “loss of land” that occurred through a series of maps as Jews allegedly colonized Palestine. These fraudulent maps which begin with a map showing a non-existent “Palestine” in 1947, were created by Hamas to justify its terrorist war against the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/posts/937144603025216
November 18, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP invited students to attend an event held at the CUNY graduate center titled: “Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities.” The event advertisement promises it will be a “vital discussion on the importance—and challenges—of boycotting Israeli universities.”https://www.facebook.com/events/516617388505585/
November 17, 2015: SJP held a “Normalization Workshop” to discuss why SJP refuses to dialogue with pro-Israel students and groups on campus. This refusal to allow any discussion with groups supporting Israel is in line with the policies of Hamas and in direct conflict with the aims of a liberal arts university. https://www.facebook.com/events/1664985343748231/
November 12, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP endorsed a statement from the SJP contingent of the “Million Student March” which describes CUNY’s leadership as “the Zionist administration” and uses Hamas terminology to claim that it “reproduces settler-colonial ideology throughout CUNY through Zionist content of education.” The statement also refers to Israel as “occupied Palestine.” The reference to “Palestine” is to a political entity that has never existed in the fourteen hundred year history of the Middle East from the time of Mohammed. It is a Hamas fabrication. https://www.facebook.com/events/1727689847462158/
November 04, 2015: In an event sponsored by Brooklyn College SJP, Canadian-Israeli journalist David Sheen gave a talk on “Israel & Palestine: The Bullet, the Ballot and the Boycott,” during which he repeated common Hamas libels attacking Israel as a racist state and “theocracy” that is attempting to start a “race war” through “burning babies” and other acts of violence against Arabs and blacks.
http://humanrightscolumbia.org/?q=content/israel-palestine-bullet-ballot-and-boycott
https://www.facebook.com/events/149758185377151/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#brooklyn
November 02, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP co-sponsored a vigil at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in support of the “Holy Land Five,” high level employees of the Holy Land Foundation who were convicted of funneling millions to Hamas. https://www.facebook.com/events/1057428320947769/
October 08, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP posted an online poster labeled “The Third Intifada” on its Facebook page. While “Intifada” literally means “shaking off,” it is the name assigned by terrorists to their suicide bombing and stabbing attacks against Jewish civilians in Israel. https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/photos/a.436662053073476.96405.383132888426393/913946182011725/?type=3&theater
October 07, 2015: Brooklyn College SJP held a “die-in” on campus to accuse Israel of murdering Palestinian civilians as part of an international “Day of Rage.” The fake corpses were covered in fake blood with signs around their necks accusing Israel of various crimes. One sign read “This is just a fraction of life under Israeli Apartheid.” The protest was accompanied by numerous chalked slogans, including some endorsing the BDS movement such as “Boycott Israel.”https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/posts/914031238669886
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/photos/pb.383132888426393.-2207520000.1451700940./914114238661586/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynSJP/photos/pb.383132888426393.-2207520000.1451700940./914022895337387/?type=3&theater
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#brooklyn
March 25, 2015: Anti-Semitic graffiti reading “Jews – root of all evil” was found in a men’s bathroom stall in the Brooklyn College library.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/anti-semitic-vandalism-brooklyn-college
2012-Present: Brooklyn College SJP members and their supporters at Brooklyn College expressed vehement Jew hatred and support for anti-Israel terrorism on social media. SJP member Ayah Aly tweeted such sentiments as “Anyone supporting Israel is living in a constant state of delusion. Exterminate yourselves” and “If you’re a zionist, you israeli the lowest piece of scum on earth.” She also tweeted that “Jews” are one of the “top10thingsIhate” and claimed that the United States government was behind the 9/11 attacks, stating on twitter “NeverForget this day, 14 years ago,when the U.S Government conspired against its’ own Country and blamed it on Islam.”
Brooklyn College graduate student Raja Abdulhaq wrote on Facebook that “It’s very important to always remember that Western colonial powers are as guilty as Israel in the mass-murder of Palestinians, especially the USA.” He also condoned anti-Israel terrorism, sharing on Facebook that “If you preach about popular resistance by calling it ‘non-violent’ resistance in the international arena and indirectly condemn other forms of resistance, mainly armed, then you don’t represent Palestine.”
San Diego State University:
San Diego State University made national headlines last spring when SJP members and their supporters held University President Elliot Hirshman hostage for two hours because they were outraged that he refused to condemn anti-BDS posters put up by the David Horowitz Freedom Center on the grounds that they were speech protected by the First Amendment. They joined Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in calling for the resignation of President Hirshman.
SDSU is home to a highly active BDS campaign supported by at least eleven leftist campus organizations. A school-wide referendum on a BDS resolution garnered a majority of votes, but not the 2/3 supermajority needed for passage. SDSU-SJP has also followed Hamas’s policy of refusing the “normalization” of relations with pro-Israel groups by barring Students Supporting Israel (SSI) from signing a statement encouraging greater inclusion of Muslims on campus.
Supporting Evidence:
November 23, 2015: After a Muslim student was assaulted on campus, the pro-Israel group Students Supporting Israel (SSI) attempted to co-sign a petition to make the campus more inclusive for Muslims. SDSU-SJP refused to allow them to co-sign the statement, on the grounds that it “didn’t serve the interests of the community.” SSI reported that “Out of the over 30 organizations that had signed the document, SSI was the only organization to be excluded from the statement.” This refusal to allow the “normalization” of relations with pro-Israel groups and individuals is a key tenet of Hamas’s political philosophy.
http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Students-Supporting-Israel-SSI-blog/When-a-rally-against-Islamophobia-excluded-our-campus-pro-Israel-group-436329
October 19, 2015: SDSU-SJP endorsed a statement from the Uhuru Solidarity Movement which condoned anti-Israel terrorism as “resistance against the oppressive Zionist entity” and stated “LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA” – the terrorist campaign against Israeli Jews.
https://www.facebook.com/sdsusjp/posts/709785435818550
https://www.facebook.com/events/1911256662432155/permalink/1914159368808551/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#sdsu
October 11, 2015: SDSU hosted the Fifth Annual Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference. The event featured convicted terrorist Rasmeah Odeh as a keynote speaker and several workshops promoting the Hamas-inspired BDS campaign against Israel.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/70197/news/activists-for-palestine-host-national-conference-at- sdsu/
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2015/10/12/shame-on-sjp-for-inviting-murderer-to-sdsu/
April 09, 2015: Over 3,000 SDSU students participated in a university-wide referendum on BDS against Israel. A majority of students (53%) voted for the measure but it failed because a 2/3 majority is required for passage. The BDS movement is a Hamas-inspired and funded campaign to destroy the state of Israel through economic strangulation and isolation.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/66105/news/divestment-denied-falls-short-of-two-thirds-majority/
April 06, 2015: Eleven student organizations signed a pro-BDS statement printed in the campus newspaper, The Daily Aztec. The organizations included the Arab Student Association, International Socialist Organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, Muslim Student Association, and Students for Justice in Palestine. The statement echoed Hamas’s propaganda line, claiming that Israel is conducting a “violent, illegal occupation of Palestine,” and referring to Israel’s defensive military campaign Operation Protective Edge – which was a response to thousands of Hamas rockets fired into civilian areas – as a “massacre” of Palestinians.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/65798/news/statement-in-support-of-divestment/
April 05, 2015: In the wake of a student government vote on BDS, anti-Semitic and genocidal remarks were made on the local social media site Yik Yak including “Heil Hitler” and “SDSU divest so we can get rid of the Jews.”
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/66142/opinion/anti-semitic-posts-divest-from-social-progress/
March 24, 2015: SDSU SJP released a video supporting BDS Against Israel. The video featured numerous SDSU students explaining why they support the BDS campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffTYqnwFVM
January 21, 2015: SDSU Divest launched its BDS campaign against Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/sdsudivest/posts/1557279221182470
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#sdsu
November 6, 2014: SDSU SJP violated the Student Code of Conduct by dropping leaflets from the top of several campus buildings meant to simulate an Israeli air strike. According to the campus paper, “The papers fluttering to the ground were meant to resemble leaflets dropped over Gaza ordering Palestinians to flee the region because of an imminent air strike.” http://www.thedailyaztec.com/59442/daily-aztec-stories/sjp-drops-leaflets-on-sdsu-campus/#sthash.MRknXAbk.dpuf
April 09, 2014: Nirit Revzin, president of Aztecs for Israel, wrote in a campus newspaper column: “I have been rejected numerous times in creating a dialogue toward progress or cooperating with Students for Justice in Palestine, as I have been told ‘SJP officers do not socialize with sympathizers of a brutal apartheid state.’” This refusal to allow the “normalization” of relations with Israel or pro-Israel groups is a key tenet of Hamas’s strategy.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/51791/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-divestment-creates-campus-hostility/#sthash.I6GyKFNu.dpuf
San Francisco State University:
San Francisco State University (SFSU) has repeatedly enabled the most extreme actions of its General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), a group closely resembling Students for Justice in Palestine, once led by SJP founder Hatem Bazian. This past April, GUPS disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, by shouting exhortations to terrorist violence and succeeded in curtailing his address. The demonstrators shouted “Intifada,” a call for terrorism against Israel, and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a call for the obliteration of the Jewish state. The former president of GUPS wrote dozens of social media posts threatening violence to pro-Israel students, Israelis, the IDF and others. He also praised Hamas and the violent Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
GUPS holds annual Israeli Apartheid Weeks which demonize Israel as an apartheid state and commemorate the founding of Israel as “al-Nakba” or “the catastrophe.” The faculty advisor for GUPS, Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, met with terrorists Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah during a university-funded trip to the Middle East. (Khaled is a convicted hijacker and a member of the terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Sheikh Raed Salah has been repeatedly jailed on charges of incitement to terrorist violence.) When questioned about the trip, San Francisco State administrators denied that Abdulhadi’s trip was an improper use of university funds. Abdulhadi also helped to broker a formal collaboration between SFSU and An-Najah National University in Palestine, which is known for its recruitment of students as cadre for Hamas and as suicide bombers.
Supporting Evidence:
April 12, 2016: SFSU hosted a tour created by National SJP called “Right 2 Education,” featuring two speakers from Birzeit University in Palestine. Birzeit is well known for hosting Hamas rallies and Hamas recently beat out rival party Fatah in student elections there. During the event, the student speakers defended terrorism claiming that acts such as knife attacks on unarmed civilians were merely efforts to “bring attention” to the alleged plight of Palestinians. The speakers praised the genocidal BDS campaign against Israel, and attempted to delegitimize the Israeli state by falsely claiming that Jews “fabricate our history to make it look like they have a right to exist in our country” and that “Israel was built to be a racist state.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1Qn0-WWgkhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1046150668762908/http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-sfsu/
April 06, 2016: The SFSU General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, by shouting exhortations to terrorist violence and succeeded in curtailing his address. SFSU students involved in the protest entered the auditorium carrying Palestinian flags and wearing checkered kaffiyehs which are associated with anti-Israel terrorism. The demonstrators then proceeded to shout “Intifada,” and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a slogan falsely claiming that Israel is Palestine (Israel is bounded by the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea) and should be destroyed.
When SFSU President Wong called for an investigation into the protestors who shut down Barkat’s speech, GUPS responded by calling Wong’s request an “attack on pro-Palestine protestors” that “criminalize[s] anti-racist speech on campus.”
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-sfsu/
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/pcb.1062598990465938/1062585853800585/?type=3&theater
February 23, 2016: GUPS at SFSU held a rally in solidarity with Mohammed Al-Qeeq, a Palestinian journalist who was arrested and detained by Israel. According to the Associated Press, “Israel’s Shin Bet security service says al-Qeeq is involved in terrorism activities linked to the militant Hamas movement.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Qiqhttps://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.427821270610383.99022.419960624729781/1023459584379879/?type=3
October 14, 2015: GUPS at SFSU promoted a community protest on its Facebook page supporting terrorism and the Hamas goal of destroying Israel. GUPS’s endorsement stated in part: “The General Union of Palestine Students – GUPS-SFSU supports the uprisings in Palestine! We Stand with our Brothers and Sisters in the streets, and we will find victory! … End to the Zionist State! End to the killings of our Men, Women and Children in cold blood! End to the colonist empire! We will not be silenced!”
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.427821270610383.99022.419960624729781/960183580707480/?type=3&theater
September 21, 2015: GUPS at SFSU held a protest and die-in called “From Sabra to Syria: My Homeland is not a Suitcase.” One student lay on the ground holding a mock Israeli flag with “Stop Settler Colonialism” scrawled across it, an echo of the Hamas claim that the Jews have “colonized” Palestine, a blatant historical falsehood, since the land on which Israel was created belonged to the Turks (who are neither Arabs nor Palestinians) for 400 years previously.
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.673419969383844.1073741826.419960624729781/953487938043711/?type=3&theater
May 8, 2015: GUPS at SFSU held an event to commemorate the “Nakba,” an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” that Hamas and its supporters use to describe the creation of Israel. A poster for the event stated “67 years later al-nakba continues. Join GUPS in honoring Palestinian resilience.”
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.673419969383844.1073741826.419960624729781/878140425578463/?type=1
April 17, 2015: GUPS at SFSU held “Israeli Apartheid Week” on campus. The poster for the event stated, “Together we rise against colonialism,” repeating Hamas’s mendacious position that the Arab nation of “Palestine” was colonized by Jews. The event included the display of a mock “apartheid wall” painted with anti-Israel propaganda.
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/a.427821270610383.99022.419960624729781/862369367155569/?type=1
http://goldengatexpress.org/2015/04/21/gups-israeli-apartheid-week/
Fall 2014: SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, faculty advisor to GUPS who took a university- sponsored trip to the Middle East where she met with terrorists Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah, posted on her Facebook page, “Today San Francisco State University’s All University Committee on International Programs unanimously voted to recommend that SF State formally collaborate with An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. This is the first time that SFSU will collaborate with any university in a Palestinian, Arab or Muslim community.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has written of An-Najah University, “Today the student council of An-Najah is known for its advocacy of anti-Israel violence and its recruitment of Palestinian college students into terrorist groups. The council, almost completely controlled by factions loyal to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah, glorifies suicide bombings and propagandizes for jihad against Israel. Hamas has described An-Najah as a ‘greenhouse for martyrs.’”
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2015/04/sfsu-partnering-with-terror-supporting.html#.VehwqPlVikp
http://archive.adl.org/terrorism/symbols/islamic_palestine_block.htmlhttp://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/statefunded_university_promoting_alliances_with_hamasdominated_palestinian_universities.html
November 5, 2014: GUPS at SFSU held the 7th Annual Edward Said Mural Celebration. Among the event’s speakers was UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, a former leader of GUPS and co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, who, during speech at an anti-war rally in San Francisco in 2004, called for an “Intifada” in America: “Well, we’ve been watching [an] Intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in Iraq [against the United States], and the question is what are we doing? How come we don't have an Intifada in this country? Because it seem[s] to me, that we are comfortable in where we are, watching CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, and all these mainstream ... giving us a window to the world while the world is being managed from Washington, from New York, from every other place in here in San Francisco: Chevron, Bechtel, Carlyle Group, Halliburton; every one of those lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving individuals are in our country and we’re sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being bombed, and it’s about time that we have an Intifada in this country that changes fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know ... they're gonna say some Palestinian [is] being too radical. Well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralUnionofPalestineStudents/photos/pcb.776612295731277/776612195731287/?type=1&theater
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11850
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2173
February 2014: SFSU General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) President Mohammad G. Hammad was exposed as having written a number of threatening social media posts describing his wish to attack students, teachers and Israeli soldiers and to ally himself with anti-Israel terrorists including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Hammad’s posts include: A photo of himself holding a large knife with the caption: “I seriously cannot get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier…” “I think about killing a lot. And some of you are usually the targets of my daydreams J.” “You know what? Israelis ARE colonizers, there is literally no way around it. And you know what else? My heroes have always killed colonizers. I literally see nothing wrong with this. And my only regret is that not all colonizers were killed.”
In response to a poster that asked “how can I help actively support Palestine,” Hammad responded “Buy a keffieyh. Learn to tie it around your head…get in touch with some PFLP militants or arms dealers in the West Bank. Learn IDF patrol routes…BOOM.” “Let’s play a game. Objective: Kill U.S. Soldiers. Goal: world peace.” “The number of times I have legitimately considered flying back to the Middle East and joining the armed wing of the PFLP or something is surprisingly high.” “I think about the time I tried to be - moderate - and advocate for non-violence and honestly I just want to go back in time and slit my own throat/and then the throats of all my enemies before they grow up into the shits they are today.” “Oh/And tomorrow is [hopefully] the day that I find out if I will be the President of the General Union of Palestine at my school/...Hopefully I'll be able to radicalize half of our population and bring them back with me as fighters.”
After Jewish groups and the media exposed his postings, Hammad eventually left campus and was placed under investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI.
http://www.antisemitismatsfsu.blogspot.com/2014/02/from-ktvu-sfsu-student-under-fire-for.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/mohammad-h-hammads-tumblr-postings-5713-111013/
http://www.antisemitismatsfsu.blogspot.com/2014/02/documentation-of-mohammad-g-hammads.html
http://www.antisemitismatsfsu.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-nightmare-is-over-at-san-francisco.html
December 5, 2013: During an “emergency rally” held by GUPS at SFSU, the phrase “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers” was written with chalk on the concrete stage at Malcolm X Plaza. The same phrase, referring to the Hamas assertion that Jews have colonized Arab Palestine and must be exterminated, is also written on a sign at a display table during the “Edward Said Mural Celebration.” Said was a Columbia professor who was a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Palestinian National Council until 1991 when he resigned because he thought the terrorist Yasser Arafat’s policies were too moderate towards Israel.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=634
http://goldengatexpress.org/2013/12/11/non-student-groups-force-president-wong-to-address-student-rights-of-free-speech/
Tufts University
Tufts University hosted the SJP National Conference in 2014 at which students were instructed how and when to take “direct action” against supporters of Israel. Tufts SJP has repeatedly condoned anti-Israel terrorism in its published works and statements and holds an annual “Israeli Apartheid” hate week during which the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel is promoted. Tufts SJP also attempted to delegitimize supporters of Israel by labeling the pro-Israel campus group Students Supporting Israel “literally a hate group.”
Supporting Evidence:
June 02, 2016: Tufts SJP added its name to a letter from SJP National protesting a decision by the San Francisco State University administration to investigate the actions of a pro-Palestinian group known as the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) who disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, on April 6th by shouting exhortations to terrorist violence. SFSU students involved in the protest entered the auditorium carrying Palestinian flags and wearing checkered kaffiyehs which are associated with anti-Israel terrorism. The demonstrators then proceeded to shout “Intifada,” a call for terrorism against Israel, and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a slogan advocating for the destruction of Israel.
The letter signed by Tufts SJP stated: “We condemn SFSU President’s pledge to open a ‘full investigation’ into the protest and condemn the President’s pledge to prevent peaceful student dissent in the future. Such actions create a chilling effect undermining activism and freedom of speech for students advocating for justice and freedom in Palestine.”
https://www.facebook.com/SJP.National/posts/1058448970859732http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/08/san-francisco-state-u-to-launch-investigation-after-jewish-groups-denounce-shout-down-of-jerusalem-mayors-speech/#
April 09, 2016: Tufts SJP praised Columbia University SJP for disrupting a talk by the Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barakat. According to an account posted by Columbia SJP, “We organized an action to shed light on his promotion of VIOLENCE, APARTHEID and ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians.”
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/757862274350106
March 10, 2016: Tufts SJP held “Israeli Apartheid Week” on campus. During a demonstration, students distributed a publication called “Zintifada,” labeled on its website as “an independent publication of Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine,” which supported Palestinian terrorism and violence against Israel, stating that “violence is acted upon by the powerless by the powerful. Let us not only recognize the right of the oppressed to defy, but let us also stand as allies in their struggle.” http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2016/03/10/students-for-justice-in-palestine-protest-occupation-as-part-of-israeli-apartheid-week/
https://issuu.com/tufts-sjp/docs/thezintifada
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/737918903011110
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-tuftsuniversity/
March 04, 2016: Tufts SJP attempted to delegitimize supporters of Israel by labeling the pro-Israel campus group Students Supporting Israel “literally a hate group.” Such behavior is consistent with Hamas’s dictate to reject the “normalization” of relations with Israel and its supporters.
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/736509426485391
December 07, 2015: Tufts SJP held an event called “Palestinian Human Rights Now.” The Facebook graphic for the event featured an image of rockets with dollar signs dropping off a conveyer belt and the captions “US Taxpayers funded 670 million weapons for Israel between 2000 and 2009” and “During these years the Israeli military killed at least 2,960 unarmed Palestinians.” The poster made no mention of the numerous unprovoked rocket attacks by the Palestinians on Israel. There have been no unprovoked rocket attacks by Israel against Palestinians.
https://www.facebook.com/events/210393795959324/
October 28, 2015: SJP members disrupted a “Taste of Israel” event held by the campus organization Friends of Israel by distributing flyers attacking Israel and labeling it an “apartheid” state. One flyer read: “Taste of Israeli Occupation” while another stated “Don’t dip into Israel apartheid.”
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-tuftsuniversity/
http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/10/30/sjp-members-disrupt-annual-taste-israel-event-signs-flyers/
August 18, 2015: Two student organizations at Tufts, the Spoken Word Alliance at Tufts and Tufts Pan-African Alliance, added their signatures and support to the 2015 Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine. The statement endorses the Hamas-inspired BDS movement, demonizes and delegitimizes Israel, uses Hamas language to refer to the Israeli defensive action Operation Protective Edge as “last summer’s Gaza massacre,” and supports Hamas terrorism against Israel claiming that “US and Israeli officials and media criminalize our existence, portray violence against us as ‘isolated incidents,’ and call our resistance ‘illegitimate’ or ‘terrorism.’”
http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-tuftsuniversity/
March 1-6, 2015: Tufts held Israeli Apartheid Week 2015 on campus. Events for the week included a panel on the “History, Tactics and Future of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions,” and a “Conversation with Tufts Professors on Palestine” during which activists accused Israel of “apartheid,” “colonialism” and “racism” - accusations meant to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/events/612588448885063
https://www.facebook.com/events/785703118150784
https://www.facebook.com/events/1039567279390440/
http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/03/05/faculty-participate-israeli-apartheid-week-panel/
March 04, 2015: Tufts SJP hung a banner promoting the film “The Lab” in the main campus dining hall with the caption “Israeli weapons tried and tested on Palestinians.” This statement and film support the “blood libel” propagated by Hamas that Israel deliberately murders Palestinians, when it is in fact responding to a seventy year unprovoked aggression by Arabs on the Jewish state.https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/photos/pb.209875379148801.-2207520000.1458578669./587178744751794/?type=3&theater
https://canarymission.org/individuals/noah-habeeb/
April 27, 2014: Tufts SJP staged a “die-in” on campus to protest an “Israeli Independence BBQ” which they claimed was held “on Nakba Day when hundreds of thousands were expelled or murdered 66 years ago.” The “Nakba” is an Arabic term meaning “catastrophe” which Hamas and its allies use to refer to the day of Israel’s founding. These are lies. Israel was attacked by five Arab states on the day of its creation, and the Arabs who fled did so at the behest of the Arab armies who promised them they could return when Israel was destroyed. Tufts SJP neglected to mention that on the day of Israel’s founding it was attacked by five Arab nations and that resulting deaths occurred in self-defense of the fledgling nation.
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/posts/436487293154274
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/photos/pcb.436487293154274/436486743154329/?type=3&theater
October 24-26, 2014: Tufts SJP hosted the Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference on campus. Panels held as part of the conference were designed to teach SJP activists how to take “direct action” to counter pro-Israel groups on campus. The conference program stated, “Presently, SJPs throughout the nation are pushing the limits of Palestine Solidarity, and understanding how civil disobedience works can strengthen any campaign’s pressure and salience… Understanding this tactic is crucial to a stronger and more versatile SJP that seeks to publicly challenge university administrations and student governments.”
A member of the national SJP steering committee which organized the conference, Ahmad Aburas, has publicly declared his support for Hamas on social media. One of the conference’s keynote speakers, Mohammad Desai, is the National Coordinator of BDS South Africa, and has defended South African BDS activists who chanted “shoot the Jew” at a pro-BDS protest.
https://www.standwithus.com/news/article.asp?id=3566http://freebeacon.com/national-security/tufts-university-hosting-islamists-to-train-students-in-direct-action/
March 05, 2014: As part of Israeli Apartheid Week demonstrations held on campus, Tufts SJP distributed mock eviction notices to student dorms which stated that “Eviction and demolition notices are routinely given to Palestinian families living under oppressive Israeli occupation for no reason other than their ethnic background.” In fact eviction notices are given to the families and supporters of terrorists who have actually carried out attacks on innocent civilians. Tufts SJP also constructed a mock apartheid wall and staged a mock eviction during which students were held blindfolded at gunpoint.
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/apartheid-highlight-occupation/
2010: The Tufts chapter of SJP was founded by Lucas Koerner who was later arrested for biting an Israeli police officer at the Jerusalem Day parade and who has compared Israel to Nazi Germany and stated that “Gaza is a concentration camp.” The organization’s motto supports the Hamas-inspired BDS movement and “resistance” which is a coded reference to Hamas terrorism: “Peace through justice. Equality through resistance. Humanity through BDS.”
https://www.facebook.com/TuftsSJP/info/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
https://canarymission.org/individuals/noah-habeeb/
University of California Berkeley:
UC-Berkeley is home to an extremist and highly active anti-Israel movement allied with Hamas terrorists. During a recent campus rally, students supporting the BDS movement chanted pro-terrorist slogans including “Let it be known that we here at Berkeley support the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – calls to kill Jews in Israel and destroy the Jewish state. Berkeley SJP shared an article on its Facebook page quoting a Fatah activist who declared “Call Me a Terrorist, but I’m No Different From Israeli Troops Defending Their Homeland.” Since the Arabs are the aggressors in the seventy-year war to destroy the Jewish state, this analogy is obviously false and self-serving.
The Berkeley campus has hosted numerous pro-BDS speakers including Omar Barghouti, founder of the Hamas inspired and funded boycott movement, and Remi Kanazi, an anti-Israel poet and BDS supporter. Berkeley is the academic home of Professor Hatem Bazian, Hamas supporter and co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine.
Supporting Evidence:
June 28, 2016: UC Berkeley’s Center for Race & Gender offered a “Palestine De-Colonial Summer School” in Istanbul, Turkey. The program reinforced the Hamas narrative that Jews colonized a non-existent state called Palestine. Among the themes examined in the program were “Colonialism: settler colonialism and the meaning of de-colonization,” “Understanding Zionism, as a colonial, racial and Euro-centric Project,” and “The Palestinian Nakba and the dispossession.” A textbook of Hamas libels against the Jews.https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/1040015702751457
http://www.irdproject.com/turkey.html
May 16, 2016: UC Berkeley SJP shared several posts on Facebook commemorating the “Nakba,” an Arabic term meaning catastrophe that Hamas and its supporters use to refer to the creation of Israel and to commemorate the unprovoked aggressive war five Arab states launched against the tiny state on that day and have continued ever since.
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/1013859892033705
March 31, 2016: Berkeley SJP held a “Die-in, March, and Speakout for Palestine” on campus. The Facebook notice for the event read, “We are dying-in and marching in solidarity with all Palestinians subjected to Israeli violence. Our action seeks to represent visually the people who have shed blood and tears at Israel’s hands in the West Bank, in Jerusalem, in Gaza, and worldwide.” The rally included the display of a large mock “apartheid wall” which featured anti-Israel slogans and pro-terrorist propaganda. One panel of the “apartheid wall” depicted all of Israel replaced with a Palestinian flag, implying that Israel should be replaced by an Arab state of Palestine and should no longer exist.
https://www.facebook.com/events/447042462151836/
March 29, 2016: Berkeley SJP created a “mock checkpoint” on campus to demonize Israel and intimidate students as they attempted to cross the campus. The actual checkpoints have cut the number of Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian terrorists to near zero – a fact suppressed by SJP. During the demonstration, students impersonating Israeli soldiers with “IDF” written on the backs of their shirts, and armed with mock assault rifles, arrested those representing Palestinians, as though the IDF’s efforts were about oppressing Palestinians instead of defending innocent civilians.
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/989330934486601
March 8-10, 2016: UC Berkeley SJP held “Palestine Awareness Week” on campus, although events actually continued throughout the month of March. This week featured all the key propaganda points Hamas uses to justify its war of extermination against Israel’s Jews.
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/photos/?tab=album&album_id=989154161170945
March 06, 2015: Three Berkeley professors--Rutie Adler, Hatem Bazian, and Samera Esmeir--were among the signatories to an op-ed printed in the Daily Californian supporting BDS resolutions on UC campuses and the Hamas-inspired effort to destroy the Jewish state.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/06/statement-uc-faculty-divestment-israel/
February 19, 2016: Berkeley SJP shared an article on its Facebook page defending Palestinian terrorism against Israel. The article focused on a Fatah activist who spent 23 years in prison for killing an Israeli. The activist is quoted as saying “Call Me a Terrorist, but I’m No Different From Israeli Troops Defending Their Homeland.” The inability to distinguish between a defender and an aggressor is characteristic of Hamas-SJP propaganda.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.704179?utm_content=buffer698f5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=bufferhttps://www.facebook.com/calsjp/posts/956225744463787
February 18, 2016: UC Berkeley hosted Dr. Jeff Halper for a talk on “War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians, and Global Pacification.” The Facebook notice for the event repeated the Hamas blood libel claims that Israelis are using the “occupied territories” to test their experimental weapons: “Drawing on firsthand research, the author shows how the integration of militarized systems - databases, tracking civilian activity, automated targeting systems and unmanned drones – is perfected to sustain fear among the populace and how the Occupied Territories are used by Israel as a veritable weapon laboratory.” No mention was made by Halper of the fact that every time Israel withdraws its forces, as in Gaza, the vacuum is filled with Hamas terrorists firing rockets into Israeli schoolyards and digging multimillion dollar terror tunnels to carry out attacks in Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/events/969050343160667/
November 16, 2015: Berkeley SJP hosted anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi on campus. Kanazi has called Israel “a racist state built on stolen Palestinian land” that is “maintained through ethnic cleansing, occupation, bombing campaigns, draconian laws, settlements, outposts, colonizer roads, siege, blockade, chemical warfare, an apartheid wall, home demolitions, control of borders/imports/exports/water aquifers/air/sea/taxes/currency, the denial of family reunification, jailing of children, night raids, administrative detention, uprooting olive groves, restriction on movement, denying refugees the ability to return, and much more.”
https://www.facebook.com/calsjp/photos/a.443674539052246.1073741828.442429532510080/908256319260730/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/events/1659929700916162/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D
October 14, 2015: UC Berkeley’s SJP chapter held a rally to support the “International Day of Action” for Palestine and the BDS movement against Israel at Sproul Plaza on campus. The Muslim Students Association co-sponsored the event. Featured speakers included SJP co-founder, Berkeley professor and Hamas-supporter Hatem Bazian. Speakers and participants at the event chanted pro-terrorist slogans including “Let it be known that we here at Berkeley support the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The Intifada is the Arabic name for suicide attacks on Jews, and “from the river to the sea” means the obliteration of the Jewish state and its replacement by an Islamic totalitarian regime identical to the one that now exists in Gaza. A mock “apartheid wall” plastered with anti-Israel propaganda was displayed at the event, including the malicious and false accusation that “Israel massacred over 500 kids in Gaza.” During the rally, an SJP member grabbed a sign held by a pro-Israel student and then shoved that student.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO774Ygod5s
https://www.facebook.com/events/881702435239671/
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/76086/zoa-jewish-student-was-assaulted-at-cal/
September 18, 2015: Omar Barghouti, the founder of the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS movement against Israel, spoke at Berkeley. His talk was co-sponsored by SJP and by eight university departments including the Center for Race and Gender, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies, Ethnic Studies, English, Chicano Studies, Near Eastern Studies, and African American Studies. Barghouti’s speech was titled, “BDS: Academia’s Role in the Struggle for Freedom and Justice in Palestine,” and promoted the academic boycott of Israel.http://blog.adl.org/tags/omar-barghouti
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#berkeley
February 4, 2015: A swastika was found on a “university-owned building on University Avenue.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/berkeley-s-swastika-problem-are-america-s-liberal-colleges-breeding-anti-semitism.html
March 2, 2015: Genocidal graffiti was found in a campus restroom reading: “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/berkeley-s-swastika-problem-are-america-s-liberal-colleges-breeding-anti-semitism.html
February 22, 2015: Berkeley SJP violated campus rules by distributing over 600 fake eviction notices to students in campus housing. SJP made clear that the campaign was in support of the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel, stating in a press release that “With this action, we are calling on the UC Regents to honor the consensus in favor of divestment.”
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/02/24/students-justice-palestine-serves-fake-eviction-notices-unit-2-residents/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#berkeley
January 30, 2015: UC Berkeley’s office for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity posted an article on its website titled “Rhetoric of racism, from Ferguson to Palestine” that defended Hamas terrorism, claiming that “Hamas is a political party that has been under siege, along with the entirety of the Gaza Strip, for the last seven years and under Israeli military occupation since 1967.” The article, which ignored the three aggressive wars conducted by the Arab states against Israel and the 70 years of terror attacks, also condemned Israel claiming that it “was founded after a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian population that continues until today” –a genocidal lie created by Arab dictators and terrorists to justify their aggressive war against the Jews. The only ethnic cleansing proposed in the Middle East is the Arab plan to purge the region of Jews – and in so many words.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/09/rhetoric-racism-from-ferguson-pa-20149461827965518.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#berkeley
University of California Irvine
The University of California Irvine is a notorious base for supporters of terrorists. BDS activists on campus make no secret of their allegiance to Hamas, chanting slogans such as “Intifada, Intifada/long live the Intifada” and “when people are occupied/resistance is justified” and disrupting pro-Israel events. Irvinehosts an annual Israeli Apartheid Week which has been variously called “Anti-Zionism Week” and “Resisting Zionism” by its supporters. Recently, Irvine’s mock “apartheid wall” glorified convicted hijacker Leila Khaled a member of the murderous terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The wall depicted a map of Israel with the entire nation labeled as “occupied territory.” Speakers invited to Irvine by the campus chapter of the Muslim Student Union included BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti and infamous terrorist-supporting anti-Semite, Amir Abdel Malik Ali, who has openly stated his allegiance to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Irvine’s student senate unanimously passed a BDS resolution in 2012, one of the first student governments in the nation to do so. Irvine students even met with a prominent Hamas leader during a secret trip to the Middle East in 2009.
Supporting Evidence:
May 18, 2016: Irvine SJP succeeded in disrupting a pro-Israel film screening that was co-sponsored by the campus chapters of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) and Hillel. SSI reported on its Facebook page that, “Tonight one of our events was disrupted by certain student organizations. They were in violation of UC Regents Hate Speech policy and were shouting various anti-Semitic statements. The police had to escort attendees out of the event for their own safety.” Video of the event reveals students shouting their support for anti-Israel terrorism, screaming “Intifada, Intifada/long live the Intifada,” “displacing people since ‘48/there’s nothing here to celebrate!” and “when people are occupied/resistance is justified.”
https://www.facebook.com/SSIUCI/posts/1111833845525576
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7605
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-ucirvine/
May 2-5, 2016: Irvine’s chapters of SJP and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) collaborated with other student groups to hold an “Anti-Zionist Week” on campus. The week featured a huge mock “apartheid wall” which celebrated anti-Israel terrorism in multiple panels. One panel depicted an image of convicted hijacker Leila Khaled holding a gun with the slogan “Women Leading Resistance” below it. “Resistance” is a euphemism for anti-Israel terrorism. Another segment of the wall repeats the slogan, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.” Another segment depicted a map of Israel with the entire nation labeled as “occupied territory,” an allusion to Hamas’s genocidal goal to rid Israel of its Jews. The wall also endorsed the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.
In addition to the apartheid wall, Irvine’s anti-Zionist week featured a mock funeral procession for a Palestinian “martyr.” One of the students participating in the funeral procession held a sign proclaiming “Long Live the Intifada.” Another event featured a speech by anti-Israel Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss who comes from a fringe Jewish sect. During his address, Weiss resorted to anti-Semitic caricatures, claiming that Zionism is “a Madoff scheme” and Zionists use their “billions and billions of dollars” to intimidate “the media” and “any politician who dares …to show too much sympathy for the Palestinian cause.” He also claimed that “newspapers are conglomerates that are owned or controlled by Zionist organizations.”http://www.imgrum.net/media/1243068338314014499_227088962http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2016/05/rabbi-yisroel-dovid-weiss-condemns.html
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-ucirvine/
https://www.facebook.com/msuuci/photos/a.109702209116306.23746.109701965782997/1015493961870455/?type=3&theater
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2016/05/uc-irvine-bash-israel-week-is-here.html
February 19, 2016: SJP held an event titled “Unlearning Zionism: A Workshop and Discussion” with the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. The Facebook page for the event featured side-by-side photos labeled “Warsaw 1944” (an image of the Warsaw ghetto) with “Gaza 2009,” implying an equivalence between the Holocaust and the treatment of Palestinians.https://www.facebook.com/events/1600520343520537/
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/photos/gm.1600520360187202/950070228380389/?type=3&theater
October 12, 2015: An event featuring former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak at Irvine was interrupted by 20-30 anti-Israel protestors, forcing police to interrupt the event and escort Barak and the other attendees out of the event.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-ucirvine/
May 4-7, 2015: UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union staged an “Anti-Zionism Week” on campus. As part of the week’s activities, SJP and MSU sold T-shirts emblazoned with “UC Intifada,” openly stating their allegiance to Jew-killing terrorists. The back of the T-shirt read “End Settler Colonialism” (a core Hamas fiction) and depicted a genocidal Hamas map which falsely alleged that an Arab nation called “Palestine” existed in 1947 and was over-run by Jews.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/california/article/a_letter_to_president_napolitano_and_chancellor_gillman_on_anti_zionism_wee
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/822587804461966
https://www.facebook.com/events/992972734047882/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&action_history=null&source=3&source_newsfeed_story_type=regular
April 23, 2015: A pro-Israel festival held by Anteaters for Israel (“Anteaters” is the school team name) was disrupted by anti-Israel protestors, who used their bodies and large signs to block a walkway and loudly chanted such slogans as “Resistance is justified when people are occupied,” an attempt to whitewash terrorism.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2015/04/pro-palestinians-mar-i-fest-at-uc-irvine.html
March 06, 2015: UC-Irvine professor Rei Terada was among the signatories of an op-ed appearing in the Daily Californian urging the administrators of the UC system to support the BDS Movement against Israel.
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/06/statement-uc-faculty-divestment-israel/
December 7, 2014: UC Irvine SJP held an event in defense of terrorist Rasmeah Odeh, with law professor Marjorie Cohn, calling Odeh “our comrade and sister.” Odeh was convicted by an Israeli military court in 1970 for her involvement in two fatal terrorist bombings: “Join us as we host Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former President of the National Lawyer’s [sic] Guild and current Deputy Secretary of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers as she discusses the implications of the U.S.’s targeting of our comrade and sister, Rasema Odeh [sic]. Ms. Cohn recently authored an article titled, “US Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity.”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/746787762041971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmea_Odeh
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2014/12/08/rasmieh-odeh-palestian-wins-bond/20116389/
July 14, 2014: UC Irvine SJP shared on its Facebook page the following statement about Israel’s belated response to the unprovoked firing of thousands of Hamas rockets into its civilian areas, called “Operation Protective Edge.” The SJP statement parroted Hamas’s war propaganda that “Operation Protective Edge” was an aggressive initiative to indiscriminately murder Palestinians: “Israel’s war on Gaza is not an attempt to strike back at Hamas, nor was it in the 2008 war on Gaza or the previous wars it has waged against Palestinians. This is an attempt to murder as many Palestinians as they can before they decide to stop. If you are shocked that Israel is killing Palestinian women and children do not be, this is their intention and the principle on which their state was created. Every couple of years Israel wages a war on defenseless populations in their quest to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people. Remember, even if the current war stops, they will come back to kill more Palestinians in the future. Do not get comfortable today, and do not ignore Palestine tomorrow. Continue to spread awareness about what is happening. It should not take more than 150 lives for us to wake up and decide to care. Palestine is under occupation all day, every day. May we all see a free Palestine. #gazaunderattack#FreePalestine”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/677228392331242
June 2014: UC Irvine SJP posted a statement on Operation Protective Edge, repeating Hamas lies and defending its war crimes: “718 People. 718 Palestinians. Israel is massacring Palestinians on such a mass scale, it’s a wonder why no media outlet is stating that they are targeting civilians. The lives taken speak louder than Israel propaganda.” Hamas deliberately locates its rocket launchers in civilian neighborhoods which accounts for the civilian casualties when Israel attempts to eliminate the Hamas rocket threat. SJP parrots this cynical propaganda as a loyal and uncritical ally of Hamas terrorism. UC Irvine SJP also shared a post from Holocaust-denying former professor Norman Finkelstein commenting on Operation Protective Edge and listing “the names of Palestinians that Israel has murdered. #gazaunderattack#freePalestine#IsraelcontinuestomurderPalestinians”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/682944208426327
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/678259378894810
May 6, 2014: UC Irvine SJP crashed a pro-Israel demonstration called “IFest” with a large sign, “End Apartheid.” A group of SJP and MSU members pushed through a gathering of pro-Israel students to intimidate them, causing injuries to some. One student was reportedly grabbed and deliberately pushed to the ground and left with scratches and bruises. SJP proudly showcased the demonstration on their Facebook page: “This is how we welcomed Ifest (Israeli Fest) today. This is how we remember; Israel’s Independence day is our catastrophe. #IsrealiIndependenceEqualsGenocide#FreePalestine:”
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/photos/a.307158882671530.72599.126419344078819/645668485487233/?type=1
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/258644/betrayal-jews-paul-schnee
November 12, 2013: UC Irvine SJP hosted an event with anti-Israel activist Ben White, author ofIsraeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guideand co-author of Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. White’s talk was titled “Israel: Apartheid, Not Democracy.” White has defended Hamas’ attempts to kill Israeli civilians, stating “Israel’s hasbara (public relations) says context for assault is rocket fire. Well, context for rocket fire is 64 years of expulsion & occupation.” A flat out lie. Gaza was a staging ground for three unprovoked aggressive wars against Israel, and Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza in a gesture of peace which was answered by thousands of Hamas rockets aimed at civilians.
https://www.facebook.com/events/388580594608935/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&feed_story_type=17&action_history=null
http://www.adl.org/israel-international/anti-israel-activity/c/profile-ben-white.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/#.VfIA9BFViko
October 27, 2013: UC Irvine SJP posted on its Facebook page the series of Hamas-created maps that falsely depict a non-existent Arab nation of “Palestine” existing in 1947 and being colonized by Jews.
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/posts/560146354039447
May 6-9, 2013: UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union (MSU) held a week of events on “Resisting Zionism: The Palestinian Narrative.” The week featured an enormous “apartheid wall” plastered with anti-Israel propaganda including a call for BDS and a list of the purported “Rules of Occupation” which invert the reality that Israeli security measures are necessitated by Palestinian terrorism and aggression to assert the false claim that Israel is seeking to oppress and ethnically cleanse Palestinians. In fact, the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel have more rights and protections than the Arabs of any other Middle Eastern nation. The week of anti-Jewish activities included multiple anti-Israel events including one with anti-Israel activist Miko Peled and also a discussion on “The Need for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.”
https://www.facebook.com/msuuci/photos/oa.137300469788603/444237518996105/?type=1
https://www.facebook.com/sjpuci/photos/a.307158882671530.72599.126419344078819/491259227594827/?type=1
February 4, 2013: UC Irvine SJP held an event featuring BDS Movement founder Omar Barghouti titled “All About BDS.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/148531135298456/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&feed_story_type=17&action_history=null
November 2012: UC Irvine’s student senate became one of the first in the nation to pass a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution against Israel. The BDS movement is a Hamas-inspired and funded campaign to strangle the Jewish state. The vote was unanimous, 16-0.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/165416/uc-irvine-student-government-approves-anti-israel-arnold-ahlert
May 8 2012: Anti-Semitic hate speaker Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a black racist “Imam” from Oakland, spoke at Irvine’s Palestinian Liberation Week which is organized by the Muslim Student Union. In addition to defending suicide bombers, Malik Ali has compared the Jews to Nazis and openly expressed support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxl299EPVaQ
February 2010: UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on campus, which resulted in the arrest of nine of its members (and another two from the UC-Riverside chapter). MSU members stood up one at a time and shouted accusations at Oren including, “Mr. Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech” and “Israel is guilty of 101 war crimes.” The MSU members refused to cease their disruption, even after an administrator repeatedly begged for civility and ultimately scolded the students: “Shame on all of you!” The tactics used by the MSU are in keeping with Hamas’ prohibition on the “normalization” of relations with Israel and supporters of Israel. For its violation of campus rules of civility, the MSU received a one-year suspension, which was ultimately shortened to only one semester after the organization and its lawyer appealed.
http://www.adl.org/israel-international/anti-israel-activity/c/anti-semitism-at-uc-irvine.html?referrer=http://archive.adl.org/main_anti_israel/uc_irvine_hate.html#.VdFKLPlVikohttp://volokh.com/2010/02/12/free-speech-on-campus-michael-oren-at-uc-irvine/
September 2009: Students participated in a campus program called the Olive Tree Initiative and met with prominent Hamas leader Aziz Duwaik during a trip to Israel and the West Bank. The students were told to keep the meeting a secret to avoid being prevented from re-entering Israel from the West Bank and to avoid a conflict with Jewish community leaders and others who would have disapproved of the meeting.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/89345/uc-irvine-students-secret-meeting-hamas-nichole-hungerford
http://www.ha-emet.com/oti_students_meet_hamas.html
University of California Los Angeles:
UCLA’s pro-terrorist BDS sympathizers have repeatedly made national news, most recently for forcing the resignation of the university’s graduate student president, Milan Chatterjee, who reported in his resignation letter that he had been “relentlessly attacked, bullied and harassed by BDS-affiliated organizations and students.” UCLA’s student government passed a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution in 2014. The campus has hosted Hamas-supporting and Jew-hating speakers who support the BDS movement, including BDS founder Omar Barghouti and Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abuminah. It has sponsored a “Palestine Awareness Week” during which students promoted BDS and displayed a mock “apartheid wall” in an attempt to characterize Israel as an apartheid state and justify its destruction. In addition, UCLA hosted a “Nakba Week” marking the creation of Israel as a “catastrophe” – a term used by Hamas and its supporters to promote the lie that the Jews stole Arab land (it had belonged to the Turks for 400 years and was forfeited when the Turks were defeated in World War I). Prompted by SJP and the Muslim Students Association, UCLA’s student government attempted to force candidates for its offices to pledge not to accept trips to Israel sponsored by pro-Israel organizations.
Supporting Evidence:
September 01, 2016: UCLA Graduate Student Association (GSA) President Milan Chatterjee announced in a lengthy letter that he is leaving his post and UCLA Law School as a result of the “hostile and unsafe campus climate” created by groups supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on campus and the UCLA administration. Chatterjee described in his letter how he had “been relentlessly attacked, bullied and harassed by BDS-affiliated organizations and students” who objected to his attempts to distribute student fee monies in a “viewpoint neutral” manner with regard to the BDS movement.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/8800/ucla-student-president-leaves-due-anti-israel-pardes-seleh
August 22, 2016: UCLA SJP announced on its Facebook page that it is endorsing the political platform of Black Lives Matter, which includes a section of the BLM platform that embraces the Hamas propaganda lies against Israel and its terrorist cause. UCLA SJP stated: “We are moved by the platform’s recognition of Israel’s apartheid laws, illegal settlements, segregated road systems and military checkpoints, punitive home demolitions, and prison system, through which Palestinians, including children, are routinely subject to harassment and torture. As campus organizers, we also welcome [Black Lives Matter’s] endorsement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), particularly given the current climate of anti-boycott legislation that we face, and we echo its acknowledgment of the US’s culpability in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, notably through military aid, diplomatic support, and investment in private prison companies.”https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/posts/1042450125823867
May 16, 2016: In a piece published in the Daily Bruin, two UCLA students and one psychology department staff member mourned the “Nakba” – the catastrophe of Israel’s creation by the United Nations - and Israel’s alleged “massive campaign of ethnic cleansing.” They demanded “the full right of return” for Palestinians – representing a plan to flood Israel with Palestinians who had never lived in Israel and obliterate the Jewish state—one of the goals of Hamas.
http://dailybruin.com/2016/05/16/submission-palestianian-ethnic-cleansing-from-israel-is-ongoing-must-be-stopped/
April 19, 2016: In response to anti-BDS posters created by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, UCLA Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang sent an email to the 50,000 members of the UCLA community attacking Horowitz –calling the posters “repulsive” and “personalized intimidation” and stating that they produce “chilling psychological harm” that “cannot be dismissed as over-sensitivity.” Vice Chancellor Kang also pronounced them “hateful” and “thuggish” and claimed that they utilized the “tactic of guilt by association, of using blacklists, of ethnic slander, and sensationalized images engineered to trigger racially tinged fear.”
The posters can be viewed here: http://www.stopthejewhatredoncampus.org/news/posters-target-bds-activists-five-campuses
http://dailybruin.com/2016/04/19/ucla-officials-denounce-david-horowitz-posters-as-intimidation/
April 14, 2016: UCLA’s Center for Near East Studies sponsored an address by Noga Kadman on her book “Erased From Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948.” During the address, Kadman accused Israel of conducting a “massacre” of the Palestinians, a claim that is historically false and a staple of anti-Israel propaganda.
https://www.facebook.com/UCLAInternationalInstitute/posts/10156840692785707
http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/podcast/164112
February 09, 2016: SJP members published an op-ed in the Daily Bruin falsely claiming that Israel treats its Palestinians as “second class citizens” and arguing that the genocidal chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not in fact a call for genocide: “A phrase used by pro-Palestinian activists is that ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ which was referenced in last week’s article. Palestine is the name many use to refer to the geographic region that encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The call for the entire region to be free is not a call for annihilation, but rather a call for everyone living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, be they Palestinian or Israeli, to live with the same freedoms that currently only the Jewish Israelis are granted.” Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority has declared that no Jews will be allowed in a free Palestine, while the Hamas charter clearly states that Jews will be exterminated.
http://dailybruin.com/2016/02/09/submission-sjp-emphasizes-that-pro-palestinian-does-not-mean-anti-israeli/
January 25-28, 2016: UCLA-SJP held its annual “Palestine Awareness Week” on campus. The week featured numerous anti-Israel speakers who voiced their support for the genocidal BDS movement against Israel including Max Blumenthal, who has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, Miko Peled, and Sa’ed Atshan. The event also featured the display of a mock “apartheid wall” plastered with anti-Israel propaganda. It was billed on Facebook as “a week full of FREE events to raise awareness about the Palestinian struggle for justice and the Palestinian people’s resistance against the Israeli occupation.”
During his address, Blumenthal stated that suicide bombing against Jews is justified by “the occupation” and described Palestinian terrorists as “young men who took up arms to fight their occupier.” He also promoted the BDS movement and compared Israel to the Islamic state, calling it “‘JSIL,’ the Jewish State in Israel and the Levant” and stating his belief that Israel collaborates with ISIS “to collapse Jewish life in the diaspora.” Miko Peled also defended terrorism, stating that it is “a struggle for freedom and justice and equality,” and describing terrorists as “very brave Palestinians who are engaged in fighting this brutal occupation.” He also declared that “any resistance, even armed resistance is legally and morally justifiable and perfectly understandable.” Peled also described Jews as analogous to Hitler, calling Jewish soldiers “young little Jewish gestapos,” and further accused Israel of “massive, violent, brutal oppression,” “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” and of being “a colonialist, apartheid, racist system.” He also endorsed the BDS movement.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1526425087651534/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-uclosangeles/
December 09, 2015: A UCLA student who was also employed at a UCLA-affiliated medical center posted a vicious, hate-filled, anti-Semitic rant on social media which stated in part: “Fucking Jews. GTFOH with all your Zionist bullshit. Crazy ass fucking troglodyte albino monsters of cultural destruction. Fucking Jews. GTFOH with your whiny bullshit. Give the Palestinians back their land, go back to Poland or whatever freezer-state you’re from, and realize that faith does not constitute race.”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/2247/ucla-student-working-david-geffen-medical-center-pardes-seleh
November 06, 2015: UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies held a conference on “Palestine and Pedagogy” during which speakers compared Israel to the Nazis, praised anti-Israel terrorism and supported the BDS movement against Israel. UC Irvine Professor and Director of the UC Institute for Humanities Research Theo Goldberg accused Israel of practicing “eliminationist racism” such as used by the Nazis and claimed Israelis view Palestinians as “vermin, cockroaches, rats, snakes…that take boots on the ground to get rid of,” and of possessing “a commitment to purification.” Goldberg’s libels also included the false accusation that Israelis make “snuff films” featuring the deaths of innocent Palestinians which go viral resulting in “an orgasm of feeling” for Israelis. UC Riverside Professor David Lloyd called Israel “a colonial Zionist project that has become a…nightmare, ever more rigid and oppressive.” He endorsed the right of Palestinians to take up arms against Israel and also promoted the BDS movement.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/11440
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-uclosangeles/
October 29, 2015: UCLA-SJP created a blog post listing the names of 44 Palestinians who were allegedly “killed by Israelis and the Israeli Defense Forces since Oct. 1, the beginning of the third Intifada.” According to the Amcha Initiative, the list “included numerous terrorists who had murdered or injured Jews.”
http://www.sjpbruins.com/news--opinion/palestinians-are-dying-too
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-uclosangeles/
July 8, 2015: UCLA-SJP reposted an article on their Facebook page mourning the one-year anniversary of the Israeli response to thousands of unprovoked Hamas rocket attacks on civilian areas - “Operation Protective Edge.” SJP parroted Hamas claims that this was a “brutal military attack.” Students for Justice in Palestine have supported the Hamas terrorists in all their aggressions against the Jews during the Gaza conflicts. Israel withdrew its military forces from Gaza in 2005 as a gesture of peace. SJP: “One year ago today, Israel launched a brutal military attack on the Palestinian population of the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children, and more than 10,000 people were seriously injured and hundreds of thousands were made homeless, forcibly displaced and trapped inside Gaza. Deliberate attacks on Palestinian civilians of this kind are part and parcel of an Israeli policy that aims to force Palestinians into submission and to thwart the Palestinian people’s exercise of its right to self-determination.” Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 after being invaded by Egyptian armies three times through the strip. Israel’s military precautions were taken because of 7,000 unprovoked Hamas rocket attacks following the withdrawal.
Another SJP article posted on this date regurgitates preposterous Hamas propaganda about the Gaza conflict: “The war in the summer of 2014 was not about rocket fire, Israeli security or Hamas: it was about subduing and disabling Gaza, something Israel has consistently been trying to do ever since it occupied the territory together with the West Bank nearly fifty years ago.” Israel’s original occupation of Gaza and the West Bank was the result of unprovoked aggressive wars by five Arab states in 1948 and 1967 and the refusal of the Arab states to sign a peace treaty. SJP’s sole purpose is to promote Hamas war propaganda designed to demonize the Jews of Israel, support the aggressions of their terrorist enemies, and destroy the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/posts/829328353802713
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/posts/829328230469392
May 21, 2015: UCLA-SJP designated the week of May 21 – the anniversary of Israel’s creation - “Nakba Week.” Events included a teach-in on “Refugees and the Right of Return,” so-called, and a panel titled “Hear Us Speak: Stories on the Nakba and Exile.” The word “Nakba” means “catastrophe” in Arabic and is used by Hamas and its supporters to describe the creation of Israel and to promote the lie that Israel was created on Arab land. It was not. It was created by the UN on land that had belonged to the Turks, who are not Arabs, for 400 years previously. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan were created in the same way.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1445355849109611/
May 16, 2015: UCLA SJP posted a statement on its Facebook page mourning “al-Nakba,” and insisted that it be thought of as “a present reality rather than a past event.” The statement read in part: “Many of us don’t realize that every Palestinian we meet, regardless of where they are from, has had their life profoundly shaped by the ethnic cleansing of Palestine on May 15, 1948. This event, known as al-Nakba (“the catastrophe”), was not just a one-time event but is ongoing, as Palestinians are continuously displaced by illegal Israeli settlements, and by devastating attacks. The Palestinian diaspora is faced with ongoing exile and statelessness, and by an erasure of their histories. It is our hope that these photos will help shed some light on how our fellow students at UCLA find the Nakba to be a present reality rather than a past event.” This is a tissue of lies. The displacement of some Palestinian Arabs was the result of the unprovoked aggressive war launched in 1948 by five Arab dictatorships against the tiny Israeli democracy. More than one million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel today and enjoy more civil rights and protections than the Arabs of any Middle Eastern state, including especially the totalitarian theocracies in the West Bank and Gaza.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/timeline/story?ut=43&wstart=1420099200&wend=1451635199&hash=-4928003477301579964&pagefilter=3
April 2015: UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies invited vehement anti-Israel professor Cornel West to speak on a panel honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
http://www.jewhatredoncampus.org/news/organizations-slam-ucla-jewish-studies-inviting-anti-israel-activist
March 2015: When the Stop Jew Hatred on Campus campaign (an action of the David Horowitz Freedom Center) conducted a postering campaign depicting SJP as “#JewHaters,” UCLA Chancellor Gene Block called the posters “another example of intolerance” and compared them to swastikas found on Jewish fraternity buildings.
http://www.jewhatredoncampus.org/news/ucla-chancellor-compares-anti-sjp-posters-swastikas
March 06, 2015: Four UCLA professors were among the signatories of an op-ed appearing in the Daily Californian urging the administrators of the UC system to support the BDS Movement against Israel. Those professors are Nouri Gana, Sondra Hale, Chris Tilly, and Marie Kennedy.
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/06/statement-uc-faculty-divestment-israel/
March 4, 2015: UCLA-SJP held an event with two speakers in favor of the “Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/1408915022744113/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&feed_story_type=17&action_history=null
February 2015: Members of UCLA’s student government repeated age-old anti-Semitic accusations of “divided loyalties” to question whether judicial board candidate Rachel Beyda’s status as a Jew would affect her objectivity in disciplinary decisions.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/opinions/kosmin-anti-semitism-campus/
February 24, 2015: UCLA-SJP held an event to support the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS campaign to strangle the Jewish state - “BDS in Action.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/842030259189258/
November 5, 2014: UCLA held a speaker event with Steven Salaita who was fired from the University of Illinois for his numerous bigoted statements about Jews and Israelis.
http://dailybruin.com/2014/11/05/submission-university-irresponsible-for-inviting-controversial-speaker-to-campus/
www.twitter.com/stevesalaita/status/459722797481476096
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/08/anti-israel-prof-loses-job-offer-at-u-illinois-over-hateful-tweets//#more
November 2014: UCLA’s student government passed a BDS resolution by an 8-2-2 vote.
http://dailybruin.com/2014/11/19/usac-passes-divestment-resolution/
www.dailybruin.com/2014/11/18/usac-passes-divestment-resolution-with-8-2-2-vote
November 3-7, 2014: UCLA-SJP hosted a Palestine Awareness Week featuring a mock apartheid wall praising terrorists and demonizing Jews, and also an event called “Roadmap to Divestment: a screening and discussion.”
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatUCLA/photos/ms.c.eJw1ysEJACAMA8CNJK1N0~_y~;mIL4PDjBcICc7Kpaeu4s7wh800FLem7l~;RzpAJk2DN0~-.bps.a.709091052493111.1073741833.190981677637387/709091055826444/?type=1&theater
http://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/AMCHA-Initiative-Report-on-UCLA-2014.pdf
May 14, 2014: SJP brought Communist party spokesperson and BDS proponent Angela Davis to campus. She told the crowd that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is worse than the treatment of blacks under apartheid in South Africa. Davis was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the East German police state during the Cold War.
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/angela-davis-in-conversation-w-asli-bali-robin-dg-kelley-tickets-11519971545
http://dailybruin.com/2014/05/15/activist-angela-davis-addresses-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303
April 2014: Event with Ali Abuminah titled “No Rest Until We Divest.” Abuminah has accused Israel of practicing “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “attempted genocide” against the Palestinians, as well as trying “to bomb its way to legitimacy.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/225934717601992/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regularhttp://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1426
May 2014: SJP introduced an initiative that would require candidates for student government to sign a pledge to not take trips to Israel sponsored by the pro-Israel organizations, AIPAC, ADL, or Hasbara Fellowships. Candidates were not asked to refuse trips from other organizations to other countries.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/11/just-wait-until-you-hear-what-ucla-student-government-candidates-are-being-asked-to-sign/
January 2014: Speaker event with the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti. Barghouti opposed the existence of a Jewish state and Jewish rights to self-determination in Israel, and slandered Israel repeatedly.
www.vimeo.com/75201955
www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/omar_barghouti_at_ucla_echoes_of_1930s_europe
www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/omar_barghouti_at_ucla_no_to_bds_no_to_occupation
https://www.facebook.com/events/720804964603810/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
University of Chicago:
The University of Chicago is home to a highly active BDS campus movement, U of C Divest, which has gained the support of over 20 student organizations on the campus and succeeded last spring in passing a BDS resolution in Chicago’s student government. During the debate over the measure, an amendment supporting the continued self-determination of the Jewish people and the existence of Israel was proposed and rejected. U. Chicago’s SJP chapter has brought numerous anti-Israel speakers to campus including BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti who condoned anti-Israel terrorism in his address to students. Chicago SJP also interrupted an Israeli Independence Day celebration with a commemoration of the “Nakba,” an Arabic word used by Hamas to describe the creation of Israel as a “catastrophe,” and has held numerous other events attempting to delegitimize Israel and make the argument that “resistance” against the Jewish state (a euphemism for terrorism) is justified.
Supporting Evidence:
June 02, 2016: U. Chicago-SJP shared a post on its Facebook page from the Boycott Tel Aviv Pride campaign urging people to boycott gay pride events in Tel Aviv because “any cultural event organized with money from the Israeli state should be boycotted… Gay tourism financial revenues do not only stimulate Israel’s economy, they are considered a direct investment in Israel’s war machine.” No other Middle Eastern state tolerates gays let alone features gay pride parades. The SJP leftists are willing to sacrifice their traditional support for gays in the service of the Hamas terror campaign to destroy the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/942145792549444
May 23-28, 2016: SJP held “Palestinian Nakba Week” on campus. The “Nakba” is an Arabic term meaning “catastrophe” which Hamas uses to refer to the day of Israel’s founding and to spread the lie that Israel was created on land belonging to the Arabs. Israel was created by the United Nations on land that had belonged to the Turks – who are not Arabs – for 400 years previously. Events during the week included a talk on “Disrupting Israeli Apartheid: Civil Disobedience in Palestine” and “Nakba 101: A discussion.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/1723219794630350/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1684747235126020/
https://www.facebook.com/events/240063779700424/
May 15, 2016: U. Chicago SJP posted a video purporting to show facts about the creation of Israel on its Facebook page, while drawing the conclusion that Israel has no right to exist. The video hews to the false Hamas narrative that Israel colonized Palestine, displacing its existing citizens. In truth, there was no nation of Palestine at the time of Israel’s creation, and the land on which Israel was created belonged to the Turks who are not Arabs for 400 years previously. The video claims that Israel “occupied the rest of historic Palestine during the Six Day War,” but fails to mention that Israel was the victim of a war of unprovoked aggression by five Arab dictatorships whose expressed goal was to “push the Jews into the sea.” It also fails to mention that for fifty years the Arabs have refused to sign a peace with Israel, recognizing its right to exist.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/931756886921668
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/730476790427164/
May 12, 2016: U. Chicago SJP disrupted a celebration of Israeli Independence Day on campus by holding a protest of the “Palestinian Nakba,” a term meaning “catastrophe” that is used by Hamas to deplore the creation of Israel, and spread the lie that Israel was created on Arab land. SJP’s description of the event read: “SJP at the University of Chicago today marked the 68th anniversary of the beginning of the Palestinian Nakba by protesting Israeli Independence Day, which was organized by a Zionist student group with most of the free goodies passed out donated by Stand With Us and Birthright.
“Under the Israeli Independence tent, American students discussed their ‘Birthright’ to Israel while on the other side Palestinian students shared their families’ stories of being forced from their homes and turned into stateless refugees.” Virtually all of the Arab refugees fled of their own free will, while nearly one million stayed. Moreover, the Palestinian refugees are stateless because no Arab state will grant them citizenship, while the terrorist regimes in the West Bank and Gaza refuse to re-settle them.
Protest signs displayed by SJP parroted Hamas war propaganda. One read “Come enjoy ‘Israeli’ food and settler colonialism,” and “Displacing lives since ’48, there’s nothing here to celebrate,” while another condemned Israel for “Ethnic cleansing” and “Cultural appropriation” – lies designed to delegitimize and destroy the Jewish state.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/930107193753304
April 12, 2016: The student government at the University of Chicago passed a resolution calling on the University to divest from companies which aid or profit from Israel’s“violation of human rights and international law in Palestine.” The motion passed by a vote of 8-4 with 3 abstentions and was supported by 20 leftwing student organizations on campus and organized by a coalition calling itself U of C Divest. During the debate over the measure, an amendment supporting the continued self-determination of the Jewish people and the existence of Israel was proposed and rejected.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/913956835368340
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
April 07, 2016: In preparation for a vote on a BDS resolution, the U of Chicago Divest Coalition published an open letter in The Chicago Maroon, a campus newspaper, labeling Israel an apartheid state and urging the university community to endorse the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS campaign to strangle the Jewish state. The letter – a tissue of lies - claimed: “Palestinians today face a comprehensive system of occupation, dispossession, and segregation—in short, apartheid. Their cities are bombed, resources stolen, children kidnapped, and movement restricted… Our resolution, while targeted, supports the full demands of the BDS call: an end to the occupation, equality for all people in Palestine/Israel, and the right of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.”
http://chicagomaroon.com/2016/04/07/letter-uofc-divest-calls-for-divestment-from-israel/
March 28, 2016: The U of C Divest coalition held a large rally on campus featuring a 70 foot Palestinian flag with students displaying banners and chanting propaganda slogans to support the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS movement. The chants included: “Brick by brick, wall by wall, Israeli apartheid has to fall,” “Free free Palestine, viva viva Palestina,” and “Hey hey, ho ho, Israeli apartheid’s got to go.” Banners displayed on campus read: “End Apartheid,” “Free Palestine,” and “Divest Now.” Israel is not only the most tolerant society in the Middle East. It is the only tolerant society in the Middle East.
http://chicagomaroon.com/2016/04/01/push-for-divestment-from-some-companies-active-in-israel-looks-for-cc-resolution/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
February 18, 2016: Angry protestors interrupted and threatened a Palestinian human rights activist, Bassam Eid, who came to speak on U. Chicago’s campus about the oppression of Palestinians by the theocratic terrorist regimes in the West Bank and Gaza. SJP activists were upset that Eid’s remarks were critical of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and failed to condemn Israel for its alleged “occupation” of Palestine. In the video of Eid’s speech a young man can be seen screaming in Arabic: “I’m going to destroy this place!” and “I’m going to kill this motherf*****!” and “Wait until you go to your car!” Eid later declared himself to be “terrified” by the ordeal.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/21/palestinian-human-rights-activists-receives-death-threats-from-anti-israel-protesters-during-u-of-chicago-lecture-video/
October 29, 2015: UC-SJP hosted BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti for a speech on “BDS and the Ethical Obligation to End Complicity in Oppression.” During his address, Barghouti labeled Israel “a regime of oppression” and a “savage unrepairable society” that conducts “ethnic cleansing.” Barghouti also praised terrorism against Israel’s Jews, stating that “resistance” is a legitimate response to “the violence of an oppressive system.” Several UC organizations and departments co-sponsored Barghouti’s address including the Global Voices Program – University of Chicago International House, the Pozen Center for Human Rights, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of International Studies.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
October 28, 2015: UC-SJP held a panel titled “Jerusalem in Crisis: Insider Perspectives on the Violence in Palestine-Israel” as part of the “UChicago Israeli Apartheid Week.” Speakers at the event were two graduate student members of SJP. One of the speakers praised anti-Israel terrorism, stating: “Palestinian violent resistance against the violent Israeli military is always justified; it is the equivalent of biting the hand that is trying to choke you to death.” http://chicagomaroon.com/2015/10/30/sjp-sponsored-panel-talks-palestinian-history-contemporary-politics/
October 14, 2015: U. Chicago SJP held a Palestinian Day of Action, in concurrence with an international Day of Action to promote the Hamas-inspired and funded BDS campaign against Israel. The event included plastering the campus with posters falsely accusing the Israeli military of murdering Palestinian children.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPUChicago/posts/821998991230792
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
February 27, 2015: Anti-Semitic comments threatening the genocide of the Jews were posted on the social media site Yik Yak in the University of Chicago area. Some of the comments attacked individual students, while others threatened the Jewish people as a whole. One comment read, “Gas them, burn them and dismantle their power structure. Humanity cannot progress with the parasitic Jew.” This is Nazism, and all too characteristic of SJP propaganda.
http://newyork.adl.org/anti-semitic-incidents-on-college-campuses-in-2015/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#uchicago
University of Tennessee Knoxville:
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has a highly active SJP chapter that hosts annual Israeli Apartheid Weeks on campus to demonize the Jewish state. Numerous members of the chapter have shared pro-Hitler and pro-terrorist comments on social media including “Wish Hitler was still around to show you guys” and “Hitler had a lot of great ideas.” Slogans on their most recent “apartheid wall” included endorsements of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and praise for terrorist violence against Israel. UTK-SJP has also displayed the genocidal series of maps created by Hamas which falsely depict a mythical Arab Palestine in 1947 being overrun and colonized by Jews. UTK-SJP has hosted numerous anti-Israel speakers including BDS activist Allison Weir and pro-terrorist poet Remi Kanazi. UTK-SJP has also disrupted pro-Israel events on campus.
Supporting Evidence:
June 02, 2016: UTK-SJP added its name to a letter from SJP National protesting a decision by the San Francisco State University administration to investigate the actions of a pro-Palestinian group known as the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) who disrupted a speech by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, on April 6, shouting exhortations to terrorist violence. SFSU students involved in the protest entered the auditorium carrying Palestinian flags and wearing checkered kaffiyehs which are symbols of anti-Jewish terrorism. The demonstrators shouted “Intifada” - a call for terrorism against Israel’s Jews - and chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” a slogan calling for the obliteration of Israel (which is bounded by the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea) and its Jews. The letter stated: “We condemn SFSU President’s pledge to open a ‘full investigation’ into the protest and condemn the President’s pledge to prevent peaceful student dissent in the future. Such actions create a chilling effect undermining activism and freedom of speech for students advocating for justice and freedom in Palestine.”
https://www.facebook.com/SJP.National/posts/1058448970859732
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/08/san-francisco-state-u-to-launch-investigation-after-jewish-groups-denounce-shout-down-of-jerusalem-mayors-speech/#
April 04, 2016: UTK-SJP hosted an event featuring two students from Birzeit University and Al Quds University to speak about “their experiences as students under Israeli occupation as well as Israel’s systematic obstruction of Palestinian education and access to education.” Both Birzeit and Al Quds are well-known recruitment grounds for Hamas and both schools have hosted Hamas rallies.
https://www.facebook.com/sjputk/posts/1010915285668256
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/world/middleeast/hamas-wins-the-hearts-of-students-at-west-bank-campus-election.html?_r=0
March 02, 2016: SJP created and displayed an “Israeli apartheid” wall as part of Israeli Apartheid Week on campus. Slogans on the wall included the phrase “To Exist is to Resist” a justification for anti-Jewish terrorism. The wall also contained a series of Hamas propaganda maps purporting to show a non-existent Palestinian state in 1947 subsequently being overrun and colonized by Jews. These fraudulent maps were designed by Hamas to justify the extermination of the Jews, as called for in the Hamas Charter, and the destruction of the Jewish state. Statements on the wall further denigrated Israel – the only tolerant democracy in the entire Middle East – as an “Apartheid State” and supported the BDS movement. They included an appeal to the University to “de-shelve Sabra Humus” – an Israeli product – because it “profits off the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
https://www.facebook.com/sjputk/photos/a.417930848300039.96469.416682118424912/986087104817741/?type=3&theater
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#utenn
February 22, 2016: When the Judaic Studies program at Tennessee hosted a talk by Professor Michael Brenner on “The Idea of a Jewish State from Herzl to Netanyahu,” fifteen student protestors from SJP disrupted the event by holding signs with pro-Hamas sentiments such as “Israel is an apartheid state.” The protestors also distributed flyers which “defined Israeli occupation, pointed out the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and highlighted the undertones of ethnic cleansing inherent in the history of the state of Israel.”
http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker#utenn
http://www.utdailybeacon.com/opinion/article_c8a032e0-dab2-11e5-9e5f-57e6f3108030.html
October 25, 2015: UTK-SJP hosted the pro-terrorist poet Remi Kanazi. Kanazi has called Israel “a racist state built on stolen Palestinian land” and falsely claimed that Israel is “maintained through ethnic cleansing, occupation, bombing campaigns, draconian laws, settlements, outposts, colonizer roads, siege, blockade, chemical warfare, an apartheid wall, home demolitions, control of borders/imports/exports/water aquifers/air/sea/taxes/currency, the denial of family reunification, jailing of children, night raids, administrative detention, uprooting olive groves, restriction on movement, denying refugees the ability to return, and much more.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/493662944124300/
https://www.facebook.com/psc.harvard/posts/539842142724556
April 18, 2013: UTK-SJP joined UTK’s political science department and several campus organizations to sponsor a talk by anti-Israel activist Allison Weir on “What the Media Leaves Out.” In her speech, Weir stated, “American taxpayers give Israel 8 million dollars per day… And yet most of us don’t know about that. I saw people being destroyed with American money. Americans don’t know they’re doing this to them. Our media doesn't tell us.” In fact US aid is used to provide Israel with anti-missile defenses against the 100,000 Hezbollah and Hamas rockets aimed at the Jewish homeland.
http://www.utdailybeacon.com/news/weir-speaks-on-palestine-inaccurate-media-coverage/article_af16bce1-77f7-5244-8332-5f764f69b9f1.html
2013: SJP was created as an official student group at UT-Knoxville. The faculty advisor for the group at its founding was Dr. Brian Barber, who heads UTK’s Center for the Study of Youth in Political Conflict. Barber is a 1996-1997 grant recipient from the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, now called the Palestine Center, which is the educational arm of the Jerusalem Fund, an organization that holds regular events supporting the BDS movement to strangle the Jewish state, and condemning the “occupation” of Israel. The current faculty advisor is Dr. Drew Paul, a professor of Arabic language and literature.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/217808/ut-knoxvilles-newest-student-anti-israel-hate-david-james
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/category/past-events
https://utk.collegiatelink.net/organization/sjp/about
2012-Present: Many UTK-SJP members have praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and made anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist comments on social media. In 2012, SJP member Mohamed Ali stated his admiration for Hitler in a tweet which read: “Had to write about a leader for DCL class. Wrote about Hitler. Cuz he’s a boss.” Fellow SJP member Eyad Hijr attacked a Jewish student on social media in 2014, stating “haha go kill yourself,” and “…I already hate you. You dirty filthy Jew. All your people do is f***ed s*** up. Wish Hitler was still around to show you guys.” Also in 2014, SJP member Hesham Annamer, who was later nominated for the board of the Muslim Students Association at UTK, wrote on twitter, “Hitler had a lot of great ideas. We need a guy like that in the White House.” In 2015, UTK-SJP President Stori Nuri tweeted the following anti-Semitic joke: “Jew test: Throw a penny. If they pick it up they’re a Jew.” The joke was followed by three laughing emojis.
SJP-UTK members have also praised anti-Israel terrorism on social media. Amira Sakalla, the founder of UTK-SJP, retweeted the announcement of another twitter user, “Today marks the 26th anniversary of the First #Intifada #Palestine” to which she added, “About time for another one…”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/04/exclusive-cesspool-of-antisemitic-anti-israel-racist-behavior-at-u-of-tennessee-uncovered-by-watchdog-group/
Vassar College:
Vassar College is a small liberal arts school, yet its support of anti-Israel terrorists is equal to that of many much larger campuses. Vassar is home to a highly active Hamas-inspired and funded boycott movement that passed a BDS resolution on campus last spring. The campus chapter of SJP also distributed a pamphlet titled “Boycotts Work: An Interview with Omar Barghouti.” Barghouti is the founder of the BDS movement, a genocidal attempt orchestrated by terrorists to strangle the Jewish state. Vassar SJP celebrated terrorism by selling T-shirts picturing convicted anti-Israel terrorist Leila Khaled holding a gun with the words “Resistance is not Terrorism.” It also posted on its Facebook page a 1940’s era anti-Semitic Nazi graphic.
Supporting Evidence:
April 01, 2016: The Vassar BDS coalition launched a referendum to support a pro-BDS amendment. In the Facebook announcement of the referendum, the coalition blamed the amendment’s prior failure on pressure from the administration: “We recognize that this was largely due to administration’s intimidation. Their threat to defund the Vassar Student Association for performing its duties demonstrated the degree to which BDS represents a threat to the State of Israel, and the fragility of student democracy on this campus.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/244817842534367/
March 20, 2016: The anti-Israel, pro-BDS organization Jewish Voice for Peace published an article in the campus paper titled “BDS Vital Step Toward Colonial Resistance.” The article lauded the genocidal and Hamas-inspired BDS campaign against Israel and demonized Israel by stating that “The BDS Movement combats anti-Arab racism inherent in Israel’s ongoing colonization of Arab lands.”
http://miscellanynews.org/2016/04/20/opinions/bds-vital-step-toward-colonial-resistance/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
March 06, 2016: In a vote of 15-7, the Vassar Student Association passed a BDS resolution against Israel. During the discussion prior to the vote, pro-BDS students mocked and laughed at a Jewish student who was crying as she described how the BDS campaign made her extremely anxious. When another Jewish student brought up the Holocaust, he was accused of using it to score political points and justify the “genocide” of another people.
http://forward.com/opinion/335947/how-jewish-students-like-me-got-bullied-at-vassar-bds-vote/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
February 23, 2016: SJP at Vassar hosted a workshop titled “The Case for BDS.” A description of the event called for Israel to act in ways that would destroy the Jewish state making it vulnerable to Palestinian terror attacks by ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall” (i.e., its security fence) and “Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.” The UN resolution does not stipulate a right of return for 5 million so-called refugees who never spent in a day of their lives in Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1722584587977079/
February 17, 2016: Vassar SJP distributed a pamphlet titled “Boycotts Work: An Interview with Omar Barghouti.” Barghouti is the founder of the modern BDS movement, a genocidal attempt inspired and funded by Hamas to destroy Israel. In the interview distributed by SJP, Barghouti claims that “it’s really very hypocritical and deceptive to call the academic boycott a form of infringement on academic freedom.”
http://miscellanynews.org/2016/02/17/features/orgs-split-on-how-to-show-israel-palestine-solidarity/
February 11, 2016: Vassar SJP celebrated terrorism by selling T-shirts picturing convicted terrorist Leila Khaled holding a gun with the words “Resistance is not Terrorism” written below the graphic. SJP Vassar’s post further endorsed the T-shirt’s message of support for terrorism: “Check out our friends at Existence is Resistance!!! They will be selling sweet fucking antiZionist gear at our events. 100% of profits goes towards organizing Palestinian resistance #ExistenceisResistance”
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatVC/photos/a.569972329734862.1073741828.569630543102374/1026058340792923/?type=3&theater
February 10, 2016: The Grassroots Alliance for Alternative Politics (GAAP) endorsed Vassar SJP’s statement supporting BDS and released their own BDS endorsement which read, in part: “The Israeli State and its occupation of Palestinian homelands violates basic human rights such as the right to self-determination and nationality, perpetuates horrific violence on both state and interpersonal levels, and continues the historical tradition of racist imperialism (amongst other atrocities). We support BDS as a means to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against an oppressive force.” The Israeli state does not occupy any “Palestinian homelands.” Israel was created on land that belonged to the Turks, who are not Arabs or Palestinians for 400 years previously. All other “occupations” are the result of 70 years of unprovoked Arab wars against Israel and the refusal of the Arabs to sign a peace that recognizes Israel’s right to exist.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatVC/posts/1025461914185899
February 05, 2016: Anti-Semitic comments were posted on the social media site YikYak for the Vassar College area. These remarks included “f-ck Jews” and “you’re a retard and so are Zionists,” and “Jews through terrorism have kept Palestinians locked like animals in their home.”
http://miscellanynews.org/2016/02/10/opinions/antisemitism-present-in-antizionist-rhetoric/
February 03, 2016: Vassar Professor Jasbir Puar of the Women and Gender Studies Department gave a lecture on the topic “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters.” During her address, Puar urged Vassar to join the BDS movement against Israel and demonized the Jewish state with Hitlerian claims originating with Hamas that Israel“assassinates” teenagers, harvests organs from Palestinian prisoners, and acts to “maim” and “stunt” the growth of Palestinians by denying them basic resources. Puar’s talk was sponsored by several university departments including Jewish Studies, Political Science, International Studies, Africana Studies, English, and Women’s Studies.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
http://americanstudies.vassar.edu/news/2015-2016/160129-jasbir-puar.html
March 03, 2015: As part of Israeli Apartheid Week on campus, Vassar SJP co-sponsored a speech by Professor Sa’ed Atshan. The speech was also sponsored by several Vassar departments including the Political Science Department, Religion Department, International Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, and Africana Studies Program. Atshan used his address to promote the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel and advocated for Israel’s replacement by an Arab state.
https://www.facebook.com/events/338253006380345/
http://www.amchainitiative.org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-vassarcollege/
May 2014: Anti-Israel students defaced and vandalized a pro-Israel “Wall of Truth” created by the Horowitz Freedom Center and displayed on campus by pro-Israel students to respond to SJP’s falsehoods.
www.legalinsurrection.com/2014/06/pro-israel-muslim-vassar-students-lonely-fight-to-defend-israel//#more
May 2014: Vassar SJP posted a “racist, anti-Semitic graphic” on its social media Tumbler page, depicting a 1940’s-era Nazi propaganda poster of a many-armed figure wearing a loincloth featuring the Star of David and holding a bag of money.
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/05/15/vassar-anti-semitic-palestine/9150095/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/05/vassar-president-condemns-racist-anti-semitic-graphic-posted-by-students-for-justice-in-palestine/
April 3, 2014: Protest/Disruption of Pro-Israel Events: SJP protested outside of a StandWithUs Israeli Soldiers’ Stories event. Five or six SJP students posted signs outside the event that read, “Israel is apartheid,” “Israel commits genocide,” and other demonizing lies against Israel. When the speaker, Hen Mazzig, tried to engage them and invited them to come attend the event and ask questions afterward, they responded by saying, “We don’t talk to occupiers,” and left as a group. This refusal to speak with supporters of Israel is a Hamas policy against “normalization” of relations with pro-Israel groups. http://miscellanynews.org/2014/04/02/opinions/campus-discourse-continues-to-be-strong/
http://www.israelmuse.com/2014/06/hen-mazzig-bds-bullies-take-over.html#.VNLngmjF8yQ
February 2014: SJP members picketed a course in which students would be taking a Vassar-sponsored trip to Israel, causing students to feel harassed and intimidated.
http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/195416/vassars-israel-debate-takes-raw-racial-turn/www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/03/26/shut-up-bds-explained-an-open-forum-at-vassar
September 2013: The Vassar College chapter of SJP is founded. On its Facebook page the chapter lists “the full decolonization of Palestinian lands” as its goal, which includes the state of Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/SJPatVC/info?tab=page_info
Fall 2008: Joshua Schreier, an Associate Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Vassar, released his course description for a class he teaches on “The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict.” Schreier is a supporter of the genocidal BDS movement against Israel. Schreier warns students that the class makes no pretense at objectivity: “Students should keep in mind that this course is NOT designed to present ‘an objective’ account of a ‘two-sided’ conflict.”
https://canarymission.org/professors/joshua-schreier/
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