Evan Jamieson-Eckel
Overview
SPHR is an alternative name for Students For Justice In Palestine (SJP). For more information, see the McMaster SPHR Chapter Profile.
Jamieson-Eckel was a representative for the McMaster Indigenous Student Community Alliance (MISCA) in 2018 and 2020-2021 [p. 26]. He was a member from 2013 to 2016 and affiliated from 2016 to 2017.
On August 16, 2016, Jamieson-Eckel reported that he was beginning his fourth year of “Honours Indigenous studies” at McMaster, located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
As of August 2023, Jamieson-Eckel was listed as a master’s student at Trent University (Trent) in Ontario, researching “the role that lateral violence plays in upholding settler colonialism.” He began his master’s program in 2020.
Demonizing Israel
On March 6, 2017, Jamieson-Eckel posted on Facebook a graphic promoting McMaster SPHR’s 2017 Israeli Apartheid Week.Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Jamieson-Eckel wrote in his post: “Native people know a thing or two about foreign governments coming in, taking your land, harming your people, and destroying your way of life all while sending out a message that the people being hurt are the problem…This…applies to what has happened/is still happening to Indigenous people both here and in Palestine.”
Jamieson-Eckel concluded: “Please come out and support Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - McMaster by attending as many of the events they have planned between March 6th and 17th - they will be very informative!”
Jamieson-Eckel also marked himself on Facebook as having attended one of the 2017 IAW events, titled: “From Intifada to Liberation: Defeating Colonialism and Imperialism.” MISCA was among the co-organizers of the event.
The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
Supporting BDS
On March 19, 2016, Jamieson-Eckel shared on Facebook a post from McMaster BDS that featured photos from two different McMaster Students’ Union (MSU) General Assemblies.
The first showed a full auditorium during a BDS vote. The second showed an almost empty auditorium when there was no BDS vote. The post said: “...A good reminder that BDS is a student movement that engages students on campuses in student politics…”
McMaster SPHR and other student groups endorsed a motion in support of BDS passed by the student union in 2015.
On February 23, 2016, Jamieson-Eckel shared a Facebook post about a motion supporting BDS that passed at McGill University. Jamieson-Eckel wrote: “Good to see this getting passed! I don't know if politicians will ever back it, but at least we are starting to.”
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.
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- Status:
- Student
- University:
- McMaster
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- SPHR (SJP)
- Related Profiles:
- Ahmed Fajem,
- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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