#students for justice in palestine

[sayruq]

[hack-saw2004]

LESS THAN TWO HOURS AGO: four cornell students have been suspended (and at least the one reporting was evicted, unknown about the others) for their involvement with their campus's gaza solidarity encampment. during a school year centering freedom of expression no less!

[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇵🇸🎓 Protesters at Columbia won’t leave until they see a commitment to divest from Israel

🔸 Source: Al Jazeera with Kristen Saloomey, reporting from New York, United States

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Dion J. Pierre

These organizations have maintained both influential and radical friends, NGO Monitor explained in its new report released on Thursday, noting that JVP — a fringe anti-Israel group that has often joined forces to coordinate events with SJP — has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Other donors to JVP include the Open Society Policy Center and the Kaphan Foundation, among others.

As for SJP, one of its founders, Hatem Bazian, is also a co-founder of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), an advocacy group that, according to a landmark report last year by the National Association of Scholars (NAS), “retains ties to terrorist groups operating in the Palestinian Territories.” AMP is a growing power player in the US Democratic Party and has led several legislative initiatives aimed at eroding Democratic support for Israel.

NGO Monitor also named in its report Within Our Lifetime, a New York City-based group headed by a former City University of New York (CUNY) student who once threatened to set a Jewish student’s Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sweater on fire while he wore it. Since Oct. 7, WOL has openly cheered Hamas’ atrocities as the “right to resist zionist [sic] settle violence” and “Resistance in all its forms. By any means necessary” — an apparent endorsement of Hamas’ abductions and sexual violence against Israeli women. The group’s funding is a source of mystery; the public cannot freely donate to it because a link to its donation platform, “Donorbox,” is broken, but it is widely believed that the Westchester Peace Action Committee (WESPAC), a nonprofit based in New York, is WOL’s principal funder.

Another group named in the new report, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), supports a network of allied groups, including AMP, JVP, and WESPAC. USCPR has received immense financial support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which has awarded it at least $355,000 since 2018.

Many of the same groups backing the ongoing protests have also been integral in the growth of the BDS movement. Indeed, a growing alignment of large philanthropic organizations with BDS has been fueling the movement’s growth on American college campuses, as was revealed in the NAS report from last year.

According to NAS’s findings, JVP as of last year had received $480,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, whose endowment was valued at $1.27 billion, since 2017, and the Tides Research Fund, a sponsor of Black Lives Matter, has given the group at least $75,000 since 2019. Between 2014 and 2015 alone, JVP brought in over half a million dollars in grants. Additionally, Palestine Legal, a lawfare group founded in 2012 to support campus BDS groups like SJP, is the beneficiary of generous funding from Tides Foundation, a pioneer of activist investment that has given over $1.5 million to anti-Israel initiatives, according to figures included in the report.

“Saturation of anti-Israel, pro-BDS sentiment on college campuses is a long term danger to US support for Israel by its simple normalization of demonizing the Jewish state,” NAS said at the time. “Beyond the problem of antsemitism, the importance of academia to the BDS movement’s growth and viability demonstrates the steady erosion of its political neutrality that has taken place over the past two decades.”

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

Over 40 student organizations at Columbia University from the Black Student Organization to Student Worker Solidarity to the Columbia National Lawyers Guild have joined a reinvigorated coalition aimed at urging Columbia to divest all economic and academic stakes in Israel, according to an op-ed signed by the student groups Tuesday.

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The 40+ student groups were “further moved to action by the ostensibly politically-motivated” suspension of two student groups last week, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, both of which also signed the op-ed.

Columbia University thought they could silence students calling for an end to Israel's genocide of Palestinians by suspending the campus chapters of SJP and JVP.

Instead, their discriminatory action united several dozen other student groups on campus to renew their call to demand solidarity and accountability from their university.

Read their full list of demands HERE and check out the link above for the full list of student orgs who make up the coalition.

[hero-israel]

I feel love I’ve lost a lot of respect for the left these past few days… yes I knew there was always antisemitism, but this has just been. Demoralizing. I know you’re dealing with it too, it just sucks

Half the population of Gaza is under 18. They have literally never known a world beyond its current isolated condition. Most of them have probably never even seen Israel. During the "Great March of Return" in 2018, Hamas leaders told them "The Jews have left Israel, it's abandoned, go in and take it!", and they believed them.

I have NO. SYMPATHY. WHATSOEVER. for well-fed, pathologically online Westerners, ESPECIALLY Americans, who have a world's worth of education and opportunity available to them and who still choose to believe war rape, infanticide, and snuff films are heroic liberation - and as the Americans will happily tell you, something every "colonizer" deserves. These are people who claim to be "anti fascist" and "Nazi punchers"? If I had a button that would instantly teleport all Palestinian civilians to a safe island and also all pro-paraglider leftist American shitlords into Gaza immediately to be bombed, I would have pressed it before writing that sentence. After everything that has happened, they STILL cheer for killing Jews. They are the Spanish and Norwegian fascists who went to Berlin in APRIL 1945 because they believed in the cause THAT MUCH.

[ahaura]

(Dec. 12)

[vyorei]

Colombia University is rightfully catching heat for the suspension of students in the activist groups Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace

[iwoulddie4-poetry]

“The role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible.”

- Toni Cade Bambara

[sayruq]

[hack-saw2004]

ONE HOUR AGO: "i would imagine there is a very high likelihood i will be fired today." indiana university's associate dean for graduate education spoke out against the university's allowance of a violent police response (including snipers stationed on a rooftop) to students' gaza solidarity encampment

edit: last night a phd student quote tweeted this video highlighting something i think is very important. while elizabeth dunn's support for student protesters is great, she is very against grad worker unionization and has threatened + retaliated against union grad workers.

[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇵🇸🎓 Student encampments in support of Gaza have reached Canada’s McGill

🔸 Source: Al Jazeera

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Source

[eretzyisrael]

by Aaron Sibarium

Yale Law School's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the group that celebrated the murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7 and praised the architects of the attack as "martyrs," is calling on the school to cancel an event with a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, arguing that his presence on campus will make students unsafe.

"We implore the administration to take seriously the implications of this militarization of campus," Yale Law Students for Justice in Palestine wrote in a Feb. 1 Instagram post. "The platforming of an IDF combatant recently returned from Israel's atrocities in Gaza makes many of us—especially Palestinian Arab, Muslim, Black, and brown students—feel physically and psychologically unsafe and unwelcome in our own school."

The demand to cancel the event, which is scheduled for Monday evening, comes weeks after the same group called on Yale to "protect free speech." It's part of a larger campaign to vilify the Jewish state and keep IDF soldiers off the law school's campus, where some students responded to the Oct. 7 attacks by defending Hamas and mocking Jewish students who condemned the violence.

In anticipation of Monday's event, which was organized by Law Students for Israel, activists plastered the law school with signs saying "NO IDF ON CAMPUS." A few signs contain additional slogans, from "ANTIZIONISM ≠ ANTISEMITISM" to "WAR CRIMINALS AREN'T WELCOME," that reflect the rhetoric of the national Students for Justice in Palestine organization, which has been behind some of the most disruptive protests on university campuses since the Israel-Hamas war began.