What is Israeli Apartheid Week?
Apartheid Week is an annual event on college campuses, featuring mock checkpoints, fake eviction notices, and problematic speakers meant to intimidate and harass students. SJP and its supporters designed the campaign specifically to alarm students and increase hostility for Jews and Zionists, all under the guise of “awareness” of Palestinian struggles.
However, bringing terrorists to campus does not spread awareness, nor help Palestinians; spreading misinformation does not bring awareness either; attacking Jewish students certainly does not bring awareness. On the contrary, it increases hostility and incites hatred, fear, and division.
As part of our #apartheidweekexposed campaign, we are exposing what Israeli Apartheid Week is really about: demonizing Israel and spreading propaganda.
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Since its 2005 inception, “Israeli Apartheid Week” has spread across North America, South Africa, Australia, and the UK. It targets Jewish and Zionist students through events, speakers, promotional materials, and demonstrations. An IAW staple is a mock “apartheid wall” on university quads, which features gross misinformation and often malicious antisemitic rhetoric.
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WHAT IS THE GOAL?
“[IAW aims] to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement.”
-IAW Campaign
However, IAW is not designed to help the Palestinian people but to harm Zionist and Jewish students on campus. For example, the campaign often includes mock checkpoints designed to demonize the IDF. Their real-life equivalents were only put in place in response to Palestinian terrorism and violence.
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THE REALITY
Anti-Israel groups like Students for Justice in Palestine regularly host extremist speakers. In January 2022, University of Minnesota’s SJP hosted Mohammed El- Kurd, the Nation’s Jerusalem correspondent. University departments promote and aid events like this, like when San Francisco State University planned to host convicted terrorist Leila Khaled on Zoom.
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In November 2021, Vassar College’s SJP chapter hosted Eli Valley, who draws antisemitic caricatures such as “diaspora boy,” meant to portray Zionists as demonic slaves to Israel.
This is not the first time Vassar’s SJP was exposed for sharing antisemitic cartoons.
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Another aspect of SJP’s antisemitism is Holocaust inversion, which posits that Israel and Zionists are the new Nazis. This horrific rhetoric is often followed by false quotes from Israel’s founders and people like Albert Einstein. Of course, the quote is fake, but it adds to the notion of “good” anti-Israel Jews and “bad” Zionist Jews.
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IS DANGEROUS
During IAW, activists spread falsehoods to promote boycotts of Israel and its destruction. Jewish and Zionist students have been verbally accosted and even followed on campus.
When pro-Israel students plan counter events, anti-Israel activists aggressively demonstrate, disturb the event, and threaten speakers and students.
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The presence of groups like SJP and events like IAW perpetuate and increase antisemitism on campus through their anti-Zionist activism. They paint the majority of the Jewish community as bigoted, bring speakers that demonize Jews, and spread outright blood libels.
If students are constantly harassed for their beliefs and ethnic identities, campus communities cannot thrive.
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WHAT IS ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK?
Since 2005, IAW has spread across North America, South Africa, Australia, and the UK. It targets Jewish and Zionist students through events, speakers, promotional materials, and demonstrations. An IAW staple is a mock “apartheid wall” on university quads, often featuring gross misinformation and malicious antisemitic rhetoric.
Groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and events like IAW perpetuate and increase antisemitism on campus through their anti-Zionist activism. They demonize Jews and Israel, and spread outright blood libels.
WHAT IS APARTHEID WEEK EXPOSED?
AWE is an annual CAMERA on Campus campaign with a website that students can reference to counter campus misinformation.
A virtual “apartheid wall” headlines the site with common anti-Israel ROADS Apar claims, but each contains Wa ALL comprehensive context than those on campus. We share resources on dozens of topics to help quickly debunk falsehoods.
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Learn more by visiting apartheidweekexposed.org:
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WHAT IS ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK?
Since 2005, IAW has spread all over the world. It targets Jewish and Zionist students through events, speakers, promotional materials, and demonstrations. An IAW staple is a mock “apartheid wall” on university quads, often featuring gross misinformation and malicious antisemitic rhetoric.
WHAT IS APARTHEID WEEK EXPOSED?
AWE is an annual CAMERA on Campus campaign with a website dedicated to debunking the lies spread by IAW.
A virtual “apartheid wall” headlines the site with common anti-Israel assertions, but each contains a important contextual material to debunk these claims and many other anti-Israel tropes.
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