Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel/Wikimedia Commons On February 26th, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brown University hosted an event featuring speakers who discussed Palestinian activism. Unsurprisingly, it was an exercise in antisemitic rhetoric and argumentation, including hateful tropes such as, “These attacks on capital, on money are what scares them [Israelis,...
The Libelous Claims on National SJP’s Panel
On February 19, 2021, the Institute for Policy Studies’ Middle East Fellow Khury Petersen-Smith and the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) organization shared their latest iteration of antisemitic libels and hypocrisy during “Freedom Intertwined: Organizing for Collective Liberation,” a virtual panel hosted by NSJP. The event framed Palestinian self-determination...
An Open Letter to UCL Students for Justice in Palestine Society
Photo: Steve Cadman/Wikimedia Commons Dear UCL Students for Justice in Palestine Society (UCL SJP), My name is Tamar. I am a second-year law student, Treasurer of the UCL Friends of Israel Society, and a CAMERA on Campus UK Fellow. Throughout the year, my society and I have attempted to contact...
CAMERA on Campus Plans to Disrupt “Israeli Apartheid Week”
For more information on CAMERA’s new campus campaign, visit www.apartheidweekexposed.org. It’s happened every year since 2005. Anti-Israel activists on college campuses around the world hold a weeklong series of events, usually in March, that demonize Israel as an “apartheid state.” Speakers at these events falsely allege that Israeli policy toward Palestinians...
Students for Justice in Palestine Rewrites and Distorts Jewish and Israeli History
Over the summer, Duke University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter published erroneous claims about the nature of Zionism in one of its Instagram posts. According to the ADL, Zionism is “the Jewish national movement of self-determination in the land of Israel — the historical birthplace and biblical homeland of the...
How Anti-Zionists Manipulate Mizrahi Narratives
Photo: Govorkov/Wikimedia Commons This past November was Mizrahi heritage month, a time to recognize and uplift the narratives of Mizrahi Jews across the globe. The acknowledgement of Mizrahi history has grown in popularity in the United States, particularly after Israel passed a law in 2014 that designated November 30 as a...
Israel Respects Gay Rights; the Palestinians Do Not
Photo: Nettadi/Wikimedia Commons The University of Pittsburgh’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a meeting in October on the topic of “pinkwashing” — the accusation that Israel exploits the LGBTQ+ community to propagandize a progressive image of the country, and to obscure the reality that Israel is...
SJP at Northeastern University Promote US-Designated Terrorist Group
Photo: Monika M. Wahi/Wikimedia Commons The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Northeastern University in Boston has promoted via social media the U.S.-designated terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In a since-deleted Instagram post featuring a graphic titled “Reading is for radicals” is the text: “SJP will...