Columbia University announced it is suspending the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the remainder of the fall term.
5,000 people protested Joe Biden in Chicago on Thursday over his ongoing refusal to support a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza.
Brandeis University has become the first school to ban its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.
Students for Justice in Palestine at George Washington University responds to attacks on its recent protest honoring Palestinians killed since October 7, and the broader suppression of student organizing for Palestine across the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are partnering with campus police to combat antisemitism on campuses across the United States. Advocates fear this will include Palestine solidarity activism.
Amid overwhelming U.S. political support for Israel, 25,000 people converged in Chicago last weekend to stand in solidarity with Palestine.
We hear about the 12th annual Students for Justice in Palestine conference, and the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta and its connection to the Palestine solidarity movement.
The latest escalation by the ADL against CAIR, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, labeling them as antisemitic because they are anti-Zionist, is further proof of the ADL’s desperation. The ADL has long worked to secure total impunity for the Israeli government. For the Palestinian community, Zionism is the political ideology that has enabled their violent subjugation and systematic dispossession. People must be able to discuss and debate these issues without being falsely smeared as anti-Semites.
In a prerecorded speech, shown at the Anti-Defamation League’s annual National Leadership Summit on May 1, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, tagged Palestine advocacy groups as “extremists”, and equated left critics of Israel with white supremacists.
Michael Arria speaks with three Students for Justice in Palestine activists about how the movement has grown over the last 10 years, and where it is headed in the future.