#SJPExposed: A Campaign Against Students for Justice in Palestine
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SJP is the largest anti-Israel student organization, with over 100 chapters largely at American universities. SJP supports and promotes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and organizes events that accuse Israel of war crimes, apartheid, and genocide. Its campus chapters disrupt pro-Israel events with hateful messages, usurp social justice causes for their own antisemitic agenda, and monopolize discussions about the conflict, silencing any opposition. SJP routinely demonizes Israel and Zionists, and harasses Jewish students on campus.
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These emotional terrorists can no longer be allowed to threaten Jewish and pro-Israel students with impunity.
While many watched in horror as the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel left more than 700 Israelis murdered, over 100 taken hostage and over 2,000 injured, radical campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and its affiliates across the United States have been busy defending the atrocities.
Time and time again, CAMERA on Campus has exposed SJP and its affiliates. Last spring, we published a campaign website dedicated to debunking the antisemitic propaganda the groups disseminate.
Douglas Sandoval is Managing Director for CAMERA on Campus
Further Reading
The Truth About SJP
THE TRUTH ABOUT STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE
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SJP is the largest anti-Israel student organization, with over 100 chapters largely at American universities. SJP supports and promotes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns, disrupts pro-Israel events with hateful messages, and organizes events that accuse Israel of war crimes, apartheid, and genocide. They usurp social justice causes for their own antisemitic agenda and monopolize discussions about the conflict, silencing any opposition. Through their events, they routinely demonize Israel and Zionists, harassing Jewish students on campus.
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4 EXAMPLES OF EGREGIOUS SJP ACTIVITY
SJP at King’s College London, with 21 other Palestine societies, hosted Mohammed El-Kurd (an anti-Israel activist and The Nation’s Jerusalem Correspondent) for an event titled “Resisting Apartheid: A Conversation with Mohammed El-Kurd.” He has glorified terrorists and claimed that Israelis are “thirsty for blood” (03/21/2022).
SJP and several other University of California Berkeley Law School clubs adopted an anti-Zionist bylaw. Accordingly, the clubs agreed to support Palestinian liberation initiatives on the campus while not inviting or supporting Zionist speakers nor associating with clubs that do so (08/22/2022).
SJP at Rutgers University urged others to join their massive New York City protest to “reject Zionist supremacy” during NYC’s Israel Day Parade (05/23/22).
SJP at the University of Chicago launched a new campaign in protest of a class taught by a former Israeli general. The group’s Instagram post described his course as “the sh*ttiest, most racist class is being offered this winter.” Their opposition to the Israeli army and the course is part of a larger effort to combat “anti-Palestinian propaganda” (01/05/2023).
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WHAT DOES “INTIFADA” MEAN?
Intifada (noun): A rebellion, uprising, or resistance movement. It is a term most often used to describe violence and terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian extremists.
THE FIRST INTIFADA
The first intifada spanned from 1987-1991. Over four years, Palestinian terror groups orchestrated hundreds of attacks on Israelis, including stone-throwing, arson, mass shootings, and suicide bombings. Victims included Jews, Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers, and Arabs killed by Palestinians for “collaborating with Israel.” 160-185 Israelis were killed and thousands were injured.
THE SECOND INTIFADA
September 2000 marked the start of the second intifada, a five-year terror campaign incited by Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Numerous terror groups participated, including Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
On August 9th, 2001, a Hamas terrorist walked to a pizza parlor on a busy intersection and committed a suicide bombing, killing fifteen and injuring over 130.
By 2005, this period had left over 1,010 dead and thousands more injured.
VIOLENCE AGAINST ISRAELIS WASN’T LIMITED BY ETHNICITY OR RELIGION AND CONTINUED DURING HAMAS’ INVASION OF ISRAEL IN OCTOBER 2023. THIS EFFORT IS NOT ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS NOR PEACE. IT IS ABOUT KILLING JEWS AND DESTROYING ISRAEL.
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Q: IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE?
Apartheid was a horrific and brutal system of laws instituted by the government of South Africa from 1948-1994. Under apartheid, a privileged white minority oppressed a black majority, severly violating their human rights.
No comparable circumstances exist in Israel. All Israeli citizens are equally subject to the law. No laws prevent non-Jews from attending universities or serving in public or private sectors. Arab Israelis serve as politicians, judges, bank managers, and in high-ranking military positions.
Israeli civil law only applies to Israeli citizens. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas respectively govern Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.
Palestinians with work permits travel to Israel from the territories for work, school, or religious services. To keep people safe from Palestinian terrorism, Israel must unfortunately maintain security checkpoints at border crossings.
Since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2006, they have fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians and refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist. As such, land and sea crossings between Gaza and Israel remain closed to civilian traffic due to increased terrorism.
A: ISRAEL IS NOT AN APARTHEID STATE!
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SJP Supports Terrorism & Other Tactics
SJP SUPPORTS TERRORISM
Students for Justice in Palestine chapters across the country glorify terrorism and the murder, butchery, and rape of Israeli civilians because it is part of their “resistance by any means necessary” and “resistance against the occupation” rhetoric. They regularly share content from the Palestinian Youth Movement and Within Our Lifetime, extremist organizations that continuously demonize and lie about Zionism and Israel. They have also echoed propaganda from Samidoun, a terror affiliate.
Additionally, certain SJP chapters have encouraged donations to organizations collecting funds for Gaza. The US prohibits knowingly “providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations.”
Is anyone under the illusion that SJP has no idea where these donations are actually going?
@cornell.sjp has since suspended Patreon donations without providing an explanation.
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SJP TACTICS
Students for Justice in Palestine believe terrorism is “justified if people are occupied. Though they use the term “resistance.” They employ specific words to elicit sympathy and support for their cause by excusing any Palestinian violence as a reaction to unprecedented oppression, occupation, and desperation for liberation. To do this, they push a false moral binary with the indigenous Palestinians as victims and Israel as the foreign, colonial perpetrators.
The National SJP organization actively admits that their priority is not sharing facts but a “framework,” as seen above. They attempt to delegitimize Zionist voices by refusing to even engage in earnest with Zionists on the truth. Instead, they prioritize public relations strategies.
SJP and their allies frame every action taken by Israel — no matter how positive or beneficial, as a false flag operation — a way to hide the nefarious deeds SJP will have you believe Israelis are carrying out. Anything worthy of criticism that Israel does, no matter how similar to the actions of any other Western democracy, is then lauded as proof of its inherent evil.
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“ISRAEL IS ILLEGALLY
OCCUPYING PALESTINIAN LAND.”
-STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE
Fact: The United Nations has clarified that Israel’s annexation of the West Bank would be “inadmissible.” However, none of their post-war resolutions suggest that Israel’s acquisition of the West Bank from Jordan and subsequent control of the land is unlawful.
UN General Assembly Resolution 242 calls for an Israeli withdrawal from unspecified “territories occupied in the recent conflict.” Its drafters have repeatedly clarified that the withdrawal should be conducted with “secure and recognized boundaries” and agreed upon through peace talks between the relevant parties.
“Until that condition is met, Israel is entitled to administer the territories it captured – the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip – and then withdraw from some but not necessarily all of the land…”
—Eugene Rostow, Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President Johnson and one of the drafters of UNGA Resolution 242
However, the UN has dubbed settlements “illegal,” according to international law expert Eugene Kontorovich – contradicting this labeling. He explains that because the West Bank was never officially a part of Jordan – as they seized the territory in 1949 and ethnically cleansed the Jewish population — no Arab Palestinian state was ever formally established there. This, in addition to Israel’s historic claim to the land, and the fact that Israel signed a peace agreement with Jordan in 1994 without any land swaps within the the Oslo Agreement’s division of the West Bank into Israeli and Palestinian territories, makes the settlements contentious, but not illegal.
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Responding to SJP’s Claim of “Palestinian Resistance”
Holding women, children, & the elderly hostage
Being a martyr & training children to be martyrs
Shooting rockets at civilians
What does “Palestinian
resistance” look like?
Using activists abroad to paint yourself as a victim of oppression
Raping, pillaging, & burning down houses
Indiscriminate murder in the name of “liberation”
Recommended Pages For Confronting SJP Propaganda
Did Israel’s Founders Have Genocidal Aspirations?
In May 1948, the modern state of Israel was established in the historic homeland of the Jewish people. Israel’s founders drafted the Declaration of Independence to guarantee rights for all future inhabitants:
“[The State of Israel] will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture… “
-Declaration of Independence, Provisional Government of Israel, May 14, 1948
The War of 1948 and the consequent refugee crisis did take place during the war, but was due to Arab leaders who sought the destruction o the Jewish state.
Is There a Palestinian Right of Return?
For decades, the Palestinian leadership has demanded a right of return for all refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. The United Nations recognizes that there are 5 million refugees around the world, but a separate organization, the United Nations Relief Works Agency, is designed to assist Palestinian refugees. No other organization like this exists to help specific refugee groups.
The right of return works as a bargaining chip to use against Israel, as part of Palestinian leadership efforts to forgo the peace process. adership effort The underlying goal of the so-called right of return is a Palestinian majority state from the river to the sea, and no Jewish state.
Is Israel Indiscriminately Targeting Gaza?
Important context is always left out of the conversation about Israel and Gaza. What often occurs is that Israel will retaliate against indiscriminate rocket fire. Israel retaliates against the rocket fire by targeting the places the rockets are being fired from. Hamas and PIJ bo use civilian buildings, like schools and hospitals to store and shoot rockets.
In 2021, multiple PIJ rockets either misfired or fell short of their targets, killing Palestinian civilians, for which activists and journalists pointed the blame at Israel.
Watch: PIJ Rocket Misfires, Lands In Gaza Neighborhood During Live Mayadeen TV Broadcast – Reporter Claims It Was Launched Towards The Sea, Asks Cameraman To Turn Camera Away
