Anuja Jeeva

Overview

Anuja Jeeva has spread hatred of Israel and was affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in 2015 and 2016. She is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

For more information, see the SJP TMU Chapter Profile. TMU was known as Ryerson University (Ryerson) until April 2022.

In 2016, Jeeva was affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at TMU and was a member of “Unite Ryerson.”

As of July 2023, Jeeva’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) in Ontario, with a master’s degree in social justice and community engagement in 2018. Jeeva also graduated from TMU with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 2016. 

Also as of July 2023, Jeeva was listed as a membership data analyst on the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) website. Jeeva’s LinkedIn said she had been working at OASW since June 2022 and that she was located in Pickering, Ontario. Her LinkedIn also said she had been a board member of the Tamil Canadian Centre for Civic Action since February 2019. 

In 2015, Jeeva was reportedly the “Faculty of Arts director” at TMU’s Student Union (TMSU) and the “equity and social justice commissioner.”

As of July 2023, Jeeva went by the username “Anuja Jeeves” and used the handle “@ajeeevess” on Facebook. 

Hatred of Israel

On May 20, 2015, Jeeva tweeted: “Israel is disgusting.”

On September 7, 2015, Jeeva tweeted: “Birth right is actually such a f**ked up concept. What are you actually learning on these ‘educational’ trips to Israel?” 

Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.

Jeeva retweeted an October 11, 2015 tweet that referred to Israel’s security barrier as an “#ApartheidWall.”

Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.

SJP

SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.

The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.

SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.

SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.

SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.

Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.

BDS

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true. 

One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”  

Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”

In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.

BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.

The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.

Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.

BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.