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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News Meet the Pro-Israel Student Leader Who Fled UCLA After Feud With BDS ‘Bullies’
Milan Chatterjee, the former president of the UCLA Graduate Students Association who’s been ensnared in an explosive controversy over the boycott movement of Israel, said he hadn’t thought too much about Mideast politics until last year. In fact, he’d hoped to steer clear of it as a student leader. “This is the first time I’ve…
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Community Dear Incoming Freshman: Brace Yourself for Insane Anti-Semitism.
From openly anti-Semitic professors to swastika graffiti, the campus can be a hard place for Jews, and is certainly a hard place for Zionist Jews. The hype is true: anti-Zionism is alive and well. But my experiences at Brown University have taught me there is also hope to be found in pro-Israel activism. My first…
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The Schmooze Sarah Jessica Parker Blasts EpiPen Maker For Jacking Up Prices
Sarah Jessica Parker came out on Instagram today officially announcing the end of her relationship with Mylan, the company that produces the EpiPen. SJP—whose son, James Wilkie, uses an EpiPen for his peanut allergy—had been involved in an initiative with Mylan to raise awareness for anaphylaxis, potentially life-threatening allergic reactions that the EpiPen (and the…
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News National Debate on Racism Spurs Public Spat Among Historic Jewish Groups
An institutional dispute among two storied American Jewish groups — the Anti-Defamation League and the Zionist Organization of America — has come to a head in public. “We’re a civil rights organization. The ZOA is not,” ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt said in an August 5 interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “They’ve been doing this…
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News WATCH: Black Zionist Slams Pro-Palestinian Group — Cites Arab Slave Trade
A prominent African-American Zionist used social media to blast a campus group for drawing parallels between racial violence in this country and the occupation of Palestinian lands by the Israeli military. “I’m just like, wait a minute SJP. Let’s be real,” Chloé Simone Valdary said in the brief video, posted on both her Facebook and…
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News After Four Months, Students Cleared of ‘Zionist Pig’ Charge for Lack of Witnesses
Brooklyn College has largely exonerated two students who spent the last four months ensnared in a drawn-out disciplinary process and publicly accused of anti-Semitism by their college president. The college could find no witnesses to tie the students to one of the most egregious allegations leveled against them: that while protesting a meeting one of…
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Letters Free Speech Is Not the Issue With CUNY’s Students for Justice in Palestine
To the Editor: The so-called “Students for Justice in Palestine” group and its allies falsely claim that those who are objecting to the SJP’s actions at The City University of New York are trying to stifle the SJP’s free speech and prevent criticism of Israel (“New Challenge for CUNY Over Alleged Anti-Semitism,” April 8, 2016)….
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Fast Forward CUNY Graduate Students Vote for Academic Boycott of Israel
The Doctoral Students’ Council at the City University of New York passed on Friday. The resolution passed with 42 students in favor, 19 opposed and 9 abstentions, and endorsed the call to “boycott Israeli academic institutions for as long as the Israeli state continues to violate Palestinian rights under international law.” The academic boycott of…
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