This is the Forward’s coverage of Students for Justice in Palestine, an American anti-Zionist campus group which advocates for Palestinians and supports a boycott of Israel over its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Students for Justice In Palestine
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Community Should BDS Advocates Be Banned From Israel?
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic affairs published a list of 20 organizations that promote a boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign of Israel and whose non-Israeli citizen memebrs will be banned from entering the country. Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment and let us know what you think about the…
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Fast Forward Berkeley Professor Apologizes For Sharing Anti-Semitic Images
A professor at the University of California, Berkeley has apologized for sharing Twitter memes that the university said “crossed the line” into anti-Semitism. Hatem Bazian, a lecturer in the department of ethnic studies, retweeted a status with two offending images. One showed an Orthodox Jewish man smiling and raising his arms above the caption: “I…
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Fast Forward UC Irvine Anti-Israel Group Punished For Disrupting Pro-Israel Event
(JTA) — The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at the University of California, Irvine was punished with disciplinary probation for two academic years for disrupting a pro-Israel event held on campus. After the announcement of the punishment last month, SJP said Friday it would appeal the decision. The appeal process is expected to take…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers Accused Of Harassing Activists On California Campus
Pro-Palestinian activists in California claim that they faced harassment and intimidation from Israeli soldiers who were invited to their school last month amidst a weeklong anti-Zionist protest. In May, University of California Irvine’s chapter of Students Supporting Israel invited members from the Israeli organization Reservists on Duty to campus. Their visit coincided with an “anti-Zionism…
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Fast Forward Rasmea Odeh Speech At Northwestern Draws Protest From Hillel — And J Street
The Northwestern University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting the Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh — sparking a protest by Hillel that has been joined by the school’s J Street U chapter. The Monday SJP event in titled “When They Come for Rasmea Odeh, They Come for All of Us” and organizers say…
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Fast Forward Fordham Bans Students From Joining Pro-Palestinian Campus Group
NEW YORK (JTA) — Fordham University will not allow students to form a Students for Justice in Palestine group because it does not allow groups that solely promote one country’s interests. According to a Tuesday statement from Fordham, a Jesuit school in New York City, an SJP group would act more like a political lobby…
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Fast Forward New York Pro-Palestinian Leader Celebrates Truck-Ram Terror Attack
Students for Justice in Palestine leader Nerdeen Kiswani posted on Facebook cheering a truck-ramming terror attack that took the lives of four Israeli soldiers — a move that drew condemnation from some Jewish advocates. “While Palestinian and ‘allies’ in the West scramble to condemn, apologize, explain, hide, rationalize, etc what happened this morning, Palestinians in…
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Community When Neo-Nazis Collaborate With Hamas, Should Jews Trust The Right Or The Left?
In a January 5th post entitled “March on Whitefish Moves Forward,” Andrew Anglin, the American neo-Nazi who founded the “Daily Stormer,” updated his supporters on plans for an armed march that he earlier described as “against Jews, Jewish businesses, and everyone who supports either” in Whitefish, Montana. In this particular post, Anglin added that, “a…
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