#northeastern sjp

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As Ken Marcus described:

At this event, students expected to learn how to conduct “armed struggle taking the form of guerrilla warfare at first and developing in the direction of the protracted people’s liberation war” against their “enemies.” Their enemies include the “world Zionist movement,” as well as Israel, Arab moderates and “world imperialism” (read: the United States and its European allies). In other words, they would learn that the proper response to political disagreement is not civil dialogue but “armed struggle.”

Unsurprisingly, Northeastern SJP’s post advertising its event was apparently removed by the powers that be at Instagram for violating “community guidelines”. The event itself, according to SJP, was also reported to the university administration and seems to have been canceled.

Naturally, instead of taking the opportunity to reflect on whether their own behavior led to distateful consequences, NSJP students responded by playing the victim and casting themselves as noble fighters for “social justice”. On November 28th, more than a week after Instagram deleted the group’s controversial post, NSJP published a lengthy rant on Instagram denying accusations of terror glorification; justifying the use of machine gun imagery by pointing to he existence of Northeastern’s ROTC program; attacking pro-Israel groups that objected to the lionization of the PFLP; complaining of how “exhausting” it is to have to “defend [our]selves from terror labels”; and accusing the Israel Defense Forces (oddly and a-historically enough) of the “genocidal invasion of Palestine in 1948”.

You can see screenshots of the entire post below.

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Israel’s War on American Universities The banning of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Northeastern University in Boston on March 7, along with a university threat of disciplinar Source: Israel’s War on American Universities

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On November 1st-3rd, 2019, the University of Minnesota played host to the 9th annual conference of the radical anti-Israel campus group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Each year, the SJP’s national leadership works with a different SJP campus chapter to organize the days-long hate-fest. SJP representatives from colleges all over the country travel to the conference to discuss Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel, network with fellow SJP students, and hear from dozens of professional anti-Israel activists.

Though NSJP and the conferences themselves purport to be “anti-fascist,” anti-racist, and progressive, SJP events have traditionally been breeding grounds for plain old anti-Semitism, using ancient anti Jewish tropes recycled to appeal to a young, ‘intersectional’ audience.

We’ve covered many examples of this type of behavior, including when:

In 2015, SJP at Northeastern University engaged in “dorm storming” and marched to the chant of “Long Live Intifada” (the bloody suicide bombing campaign directed at Israeli civilians).

Also in 2014, SJP’s annual conference featured South African BDS activist Muhammad Desai, who defended “shoot the Jew” chants issued at a BDS rally in Johannesburg.

Also in 2014, Vassar SJP began a social media campaign focused on the race of the crowd at a lecture there by Professor Jacobson, casting the appearance as an old white Zionist alumni intrusion onto campus, and then tweeting actual anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda.

In 2015, SJP students all over New York state hijacked #MillionStudentMarch and blamed Zionists for tuition problems.

Also in 2015, SJP students hijacked the BlackLivesMatter movement, protesting on California’s San Mateo Bridge and eventually causing car accidents.

In 2015, SJP students shouted down an Israeli professor during his talk at UMN law school.

In 2017, SJP at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne organized a “Smash Fascism” rally, and used it as an excuse to trash Zionism and attack Israel as a White Supremacist fascist country.

In 2018, SJP at UCLA tried to shout down a Lebanese Christian Zionist speaker, screaming “F**k white supremacy!”

SJP chapters frequently justify their members’ illiberal behavior by claiming that the crimes of “state violence, settler-colonialism, and imperialism” are those of which it considers Israel to be uniquely guilty.

Similarly, SJP frequently equates Zionists—those who support Jewish self-determination and ethnic nation-statehood in Israel—to “fascists, [and] white supremacists”.