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Jon Laks

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Jon Laks member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at New York University (NYU), but was expelled in 2016 after he made accusations of sexual assault against other NYC SJP members. He was also member of the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC), but resigned during the same controversy.


Laks is a student at NYU studying law. He co-chairs the NYU Law Guild, with Amith Gupta.

Spreading Hateful Lies and Incitement

On May 16, 2016, Laks commended a co-sponsored NYC SJP "Nakba Day March for Resistance and Return." Protesters at the rally held signs which read “Israel = Racisim and Genocide” and screamed “Intifada Intifada” and “5-6-7-8 Smash the Settle Zionist State”, as well as, “We don’t want two states, we want 48,” and “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution” - all calling for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish State. These official chants were distributed before the rally.


On February 25, 2016, Laks posted a "Days of Palestine" article featuring the fraudulent, incendiary headline: “Israeli rabbi: Israeli soldiers can rape Palestinian women.” The article misrepresented the rabbi’s statements — and ignored the rabbi’s supplemental statement expressly prohibiting such rape under any and all circumstances, on both moral and legal grounds.

Supporting Student-Killer Rasmea Odeh

Also on February 25, 2016, Laks celebrated a ruling mandating consideration of psychiatric evidence in terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh’s immigration fraud case.


Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate. 

Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind. 

In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.


On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison. 


In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.


On September 17, 2015, Laks promoted a protest against the CUNY performance of a play about the Holocaust written by Ido Netanyahu, the brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Joking about Murder

On December 16, 2016, Laks posted a cartoon of a soldier speaking to children saying "Knowing Marxism is half the battle. The other half of the battle is slaughtering the bourgeoisie in the most gruesome way possible." On February 13, 2016, he posted a cartoon which emphasized “devotin’ full time to dethroatin’ the bourgeoisie.”

NYC SJP - Dressing Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism

On November 12, 2015, NYC SJP organized the Million Student March at CUNY, demanding the abolishment of tuition, cancellation of student debt and a $15.00 an hour wage minimum for all campus workers. Video footage from the march showed students chanting "Zionists out of CUNY," as well as “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the intifada!”

SJP NYU Lying to Slander Israel

In April 2015, SJP NYU hosted an event called "Israeli Racism and Apartheid: An Insider’s View." The talk featured Haneen Zoabi.


Haneen Zoabi, a former member of the Israeli Knesset, has a long history of inciting violence. In 2014, she was suspended from the legislature after defending the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by the terror group Hamas, and who were later found executed in a field. In 2015, a criminal investigation was opened against Zoabi after she reportedly condoned anti-Israel violence and called for a new intifada.

SJP NYU Showing Solidarity with Terrorism

On November 9, 2015, during one the most violent waves of terrorism to hit Israel in recent years, SJP held a silent vigil at NYU to "show solidarity with Palestinian citizens in their ongoing struggle with Israel." SJP NYU organizer Amith Gupta told reporters that he broadcast e-mails showing “solidarity with the Palestinians during their recent uprising against the Israeli occupation.”


The vigil, held in the NYU Law’s Vanderbilt Courtyard, also aimed to bring attention to the Law School’s so-called "pro-Israeli sympathies."

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.


Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.laks.9


Twitter:https://twitter.com/jonlaks


Jon Laks
Status:
Student
University:
NYC SJP,
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New-York
Organizations:
SJP

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Last Modified:
06/23/2025

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