Javier Hoyos
Overview
In 2015, Hoyos was listed as the Vice-President of Research and Information and the Primary Signing Officer for the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at Concordia, an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
In 2016, Hoyos’ Facebook page said he had been an intern for Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), an anti-Israel lobbying group that promotes BDS.
As of August 2019, Hoyos’ Facebook page said he graduated from the University of York in 2018 with a “Master’s in International Humanitarian Affairs.” It also said he graduated from Concordia in 2016, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.
Leading a BDS Campaign
In 2014, Hoyos was the chairperson of the Yes to BDS Committee at Concordia.The campaign asked students to vote on a referendum asking if they approved of the Concordia Student Union (CSU) endorsing BDS.
On November 18, 2014, Hoyos published an article for the Concordia student newspaper, urging students to vote yes on a referendum supporting BDS. In the article, Hoyos said that BDS was to encourage Israel “to end its apartheid system.”
Demonizing Israel
In his November 18, 2014 article, Hoyos accused Israel of “systematic segregation” of Palestinians.He also claimed in his article that Israel “steals Palestinian homes, places of worship and farms.”
He also claimed that “Concordia is connected with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,” which he accused of being “involved in research and development of technology reinforcing the illegal wall.”
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.
SPHR Concordia
SPHR Concordia was formed in 1999 via a merger between the Concordia Centre for Palestinian Human Rights (CCPHR) at Concordia University (Concordia) and the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) at McGill University (McGill).SPHR Concordia’s Constitution, as updated February 25, 2015, called for “the right of resistance” and labeled Israel “colonialist and imperialist.”
SPHR Concordia - Promoting BDS on Campus
In 2014, SPHR Concordia led a campaign for passage of a pro-BDS student referendum, under the banner “Yes to BDS.”On October 17, 2014, SPHR member Rami Yahia was one of three Concordia students who distributed a petition to hold a BDS referendum on the question: “Do you approve of the Concordia Student Union (CSU) endorsing the BDS movement against Israel?”
From November 11-24, 2014, during the campaigning period, opponents of the referendum, known as “Concordians United Against BDS” and their supporters were reportedly harassed and “told that they were advocating for ‘Satan,’” supporting “apartheid” and called “mass murderers.”
Also during the campaign period, bathroom stalls on the Concordia campus were reportedly vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti, portraying comments including: “Jews are f***ed up people” and “Jews are not people.”
On December 5, 2014, following a contentious voting period, 1,276 undergraduate students voted in favor of BDS, while 1,067 ballots were marked “no.” A total of 2,580 students out of 35,000 registered undergraduates at Concordia cast votes in the referendum.
In response to the vote, Concordia president Alan Shepard released a statement clarifying that “the result of the vote is independent of the university.”
President Shepard distanced himself from the decision to boycott, writing: “a boycott barring us from contact with other universities and scholars would be contrary to the value of academic freedom…(and) by definition foreclose all opportunities for such a free exchange of ideas and perspectives.”
On October 26-30, 2015, SPHR Concordia organized a “BDS Week.” Yahia reportedly told the McGill Daily that the availability of funding from the CSU for Concordia’s BDS Week “was a direct result of the previous year’s ‘yes’ vote” on the BDS referendum.
“BDS Week” featured speakers such as anti-Israel propagandist Abby Martin, who has compared Israel to Nazi Germany and Dan Cohen, a Mondoweiss reporter known for demonizing Israel.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/100005919162589Twitter:https://twitter.com/javhoyos[Private]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javier-i-hoyos-140388/
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/javier-i-hoyos-91111ba6 [Deleted]
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- University:
- Concordia
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- CJPME,
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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