#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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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.
Davis has also called for Marwan Barghouti’s release from Israeli prison. An Israeli civilian court convicted Barghouti on five counts of murder and one attempted murder. He was also implicated in four other terror attacks.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, an Alabama museum and research center dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement’s history, initially awarded, rescinded, then reawarded its 2018 Fred Shuttleworth Human Rights Award to Davis.
Originally the BCRI stated that Davis “does not meet all of the criteria on which the award is based.”
Despite eventually receiving the award, Davis’ record on human rights and support for totalitarian regimes does indeed disqualify her.
Responding to SJP’s Claim of “Palestinian Resistance”
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