Jorj Chisam-Majid

Overview

Jorj Chisam-Majid [Jorj Khan Chisam-Majid] has celebrated violence, called for the death of America and endorsed bullying on campus. Chisam-Majid has also promoted incitement, expressed support for terrorists, spread hatred of America, demonized Israel and showed support for a convicted murderer.

Chisam-Majid was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist at the Claremont Colleges (Claremont SJP) in 2019 and 2020 [slide 7]. 

Chisam-Majid is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

In March 2019, Chisam-Majid co-sponsored a BDS resolution at Pitzer College (Pitzer). 

Pitzer is one of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate colleges in a consortium called The Claremont Colleges (Claremont). The colleges share a campus in Claremont, California and are alternatively known as “5Cs” or “7Cs.” 

As of March 2022, Chisam-Majid’s LinkedIn page said that Chisam-Majid received a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Pitzer in 2020. 

In August 2021, Chisam-Majid indicated on Twitter that Chisam-Majid started culinary school.

As of February 2022, Chisam-Majid’s Depop.com profile said Chisam-Majid was an “Afghan artist who makes jewelry.” 

In Summer 2017, Chisam-Majid was an intern with the Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR) chapter in Oklahoma (CAIR Oklahoma).

As of February 2022, Chisam-Majid was listed online as an “organizer” for the Afghan Diaspora For Equality & Progress (ADEP), which was “based in San Diego.” 

As of March 2022, Chisam-Majid used the name “chingiz c**t” on Twitter. Chisam-Majid’s Twitter bio described Chisam-Majid as a “cook who studied anthropology and hated it.” 

As of the same date, Chisam-Majid used the handle “@pashtun_che” on Instagram and Twitter. Chisam-Majid’s handle was a reference to deceased communist leader Che Guevarra.

Celebrating Violence

On April 8, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Buy a gun or make a Molotov or whatever idc [I don’t care] just be the leftist you are online or be the Engels to a Marx.”

On April 9, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted a quote from Afghan poet Saydal Sokhandan that read: “ … Tear apart colonialism with your gun and knife Bravo Bravo Workers show your faith and determination …”

Chisam-Majid retweeted a July 24, 2020 tweet that read: “It's really weird seeing people trying to whitewash the protests in America as peaceful. Like protestors keep burning buildings because it's WORKING and I see actual historians on here going on about nonviolent tactics being so effective. No, burning precincts is effective.”

Calling for the Death of America

On July 17, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “I’m selling the last two and I can cut out more guillotines as well as most other small designs. I’ve been practicing making name pendants and a marg bar Amrika [Death to America] one.”

On July 20, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Marg bar Taliban, marg bar ANG [Afghan National Government], and marg bar amrika.”

On July 26, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “We honor those that inspire us by continuing their work. Marg bar Amrika May it fall in our lifetime.”

On December 31, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “I’m logging off twitter for a while esp [especially] considering more Americans will take this opportunity to be fantasize about yet another war. Sometimes the best thing to say is 
مرگ بر آمريکة [Death to America] and move on.”

On August 1, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “I’m getting a lot of new followers, thanks y’all. I’m just tweeting this for clarities sake this is an anti-Zionist, anti-military, and anti-cop zone. May th US and Israel fall in our lifetime, f**k every settler state.”

On August 18, 2021, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Only thing imperial core citizens should be doing is sending direct aid and fighting the US tooth and nail to make sure the empire falls.”

Endorsing Bullying on Campus

On April 23, 2021, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “My only advice to PO [Pomona] students is to harass every single administrator and throw as much support as possible behind sjp from as many organizations United against apartheid and settler colonialism. Bullying works.”

Chisam-Majid’s tweet was in support of a BDS campaign at Pomona College (Pomona), which is part of Claremont. 

On May 6, 2021, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate, the Pomona student government, passed a modified resolution mandating [p.2] that the ASPC comply with BDS for any “internal spending” on products or services. The resolution also created [p.2] an oversight role for Claremont SJP at the ASPC-run store and restaurant on campus.

Promoting Incitement

On May 8, 2021, Chisam-Majid shared to Twitter a BBC article titled: “Al-Aqsa mosque: Dozens hurt in Jerusalem clashes.” Chisam-Majid wrote: “This is neither a clash nor does hurt even begin to describe the settler colonial violence enacted against Palestinians by Israel. Long live the Palestinian resistance!”


Chisam-Majid retweeted a May 14, 2021 tweet from anti-Israel activist Noura Erakat that promoted a Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) rally scheduled for May 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. The rally was during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against Hamas in Gaza. 

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

The tweet that Chisam-Majid retweeted said: “This is not merely a commemoration of the Nakba but a demand that its violent ongoing nature stop now! #Gaza #SaveSheikhJarrah #Jerusalem #Haifa #Lydd.”

Arab protesters gathered in Haifa and reportedly attempted to attack Israeli police officers, but were dispersed.



Chisam-Majid retweeted a May 17 2021 tweet that read: “Today is #TaxDay—Did you know that the US sends apartheid Israel an unprecedented $3.8 BILLION annually in military “aid”? We’re getting ethnically cleansed from #SheikhJarrah with US taxpayer $$. There’s a US-funded #GenocideinGaza. Is this what you want your taxes to fund?”

In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. 

Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.

Supporting Terrorists

Chisam-Majid retweeted an April 17, 2020 tweet that said: “Palestinian Prisoners Day.” The tweet featured a poster by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group that said: “April 17th Prisoner’s Day: Freedom for all Palestinian Prisoners!”

The U.S. State Department has listed the PFLP as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) since 1997, given its history of attacks against civilians, airplane hijackings and suicide bombings.

Chisam-Majid retweeted an April 8, 2020 tweet that read : “Today we celebrate the legacy of our scholarship namesake, Ghassan Kanafani. Kanafani of the most renowned Palestinian intellectuals and writers of his generation, and a leading activist in the Palestinian struggle for liberation.”

Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.  

Spreading Hatred of America

On August 16, 2021, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “I personally don’t care what like 90% of the troops have to say especially right now. Im only interested in working with those wholly committed to fighting the US”

On August 13, 2021, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Everyday u f**king white Americans make me want to break twitters terms of service”

On July 21, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “The US military is such an entrenched institution in this country that people think a statement like ‘all soldiers are imperialists’ is not what it is, a statement of fact”

On June 11, 2020, Chisam-Majid wrote a tweet where Chisam-Majid called the United States as “ameriKKKa.”

The term “Amerikkka” uses the initials of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a way to demonize America as “fascist or racist.”  

On April 7, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “U can hear them when I’m done but basically it’s f**k the US as always.”

On November 18, 2019, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Mama Mia I’m not saying the protests in Iran are all pro-shah or US backed and I guarantee no one is. We r just scared they are gonna be the ones ameriKKKa supports and end up we end up with a terrible right wing pro-shah/US coup”

Demonizing Israel

On November 15, 2019, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Israel, like the US, will always brag about the surgical precision of it’s snipers or bombs but then when there is a rare moment of international outcry against the acts of genocide they commit then suddenly it’s all an accident.”

On August 9, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Israel copy pasted every f**king settler & apartheidist move in the play book and then says s**t like ‘comparing us to South Africa is really problematic and is disrespectful to Black South Africans struggle’”

Chisam-Majid retweeted an August 15, 2020 tweet that read: “It only took 2 days for the UAE to go from (officially) not even recognizing Israel to now scolding its citizens that any criticism of Israel and the Apartheid regime is actually anti-semitism”

On August 13, 2020, the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed to a joint statement referred to as the “Abraham Accords” in which the UAE consented to formally normalize its relationship with Israel. 

On May 15, 2021, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “I pray this is the last year of the 73 continuation of al Nakba. May Palestinians only know freedom and liberation until the end of time !”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

Supporting a Convicted Murderer

Chisam-Majid retweeted an August 8, 2020 tweet that read: “Dr. Mutulu Shakur turns 70 years young today. Imprisoned for his political actions since 1986, Dr. Shakur is now suffering from life-threatening bone marrow cancer. Write him, send him a birthday letter, donate if you can, & show your solidarity to this lifelong freedom fighter.”

SJP Activism

On May 17, 2020, Chisam-Majid featured [slide 7] in an Instagram photo, posing with a rock in hand, with fellow SJP activists in front of a display meant to demonize Israel’s security barrier. 

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.

 

Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence. 

On December 8, 2019, Chisam-Majid posted a video on Instagram where Chisam-Majid delivered an anti-Israel and anti-America speech on campus on behalf of Claremont SJP. 

During the speech, Chisam-Majid accused [slide 2] Israel and America of “genocidal settler colonialism” and accused [slide 1] Israel of “eco-crimes” and “greenwashing.” 

"Greenwashing" is a claim by anti-Israel activists that Israel manipulates the environmentalist agenda to deflect international attention from Israel's alleged "persecution of the Palestinians."

On September 26, 2019, Chisam-Majid promoted on Twitter a Claremont SJP event titled: “Palestine 101: A Primer.” Chisam-Majid wrote: “Claremont!! Come to SJP’s first meeting tonight and bring you friends!” 

Supporting BDS

On July 9, 2020, Chisam-Majid wrote a tweet urging people to “... petition for BDS standards to be met in your local area & build up Palestinian resources.”

On July 21, 2020, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “Forgot to post this a few days ago but if you’re interested in making jewelry and are looking for places to buy supplies from don’t buy from fire mountain gems since they supply a lot of s**t from Israel.”

Chisam-Majid retweeted a July 24, 2020 BDS Movement tweet that read: “The corporate take-over of farming in India is actively supported by Netafim, an Israeli company that is complicit in the theft of Palestinian land and natural resources. #BoycottNetafim #SustainableAgriculture”

Chisam-Majid retweeted a July 25, 2020 tweet that read: “Nothing highlights how Zionists have never spoken to a Palestinian in their lives like when they talk about BDS as some western activist thing, and not a movement started by Palestinians themselves.”

In August 2016, BDS leader Ilan Pappé admitted that BDS was not initiated by a “call” from Palestinian civil society; rather, it was initiated by a small number of radical anti-Israel extremists.

Supporting a 2019 Pitzer BDS Campaign

In March 2019, Chisam-Majid co-sponsored a BDS resolution in support of a Pitzer College Council motion to suspend Pitzer’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel. 

On March 14, 2019, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “As my college discusses whether or not The University of Haifa is a liberal university in Israel Gaza is being bombed…”
#SuspendPitzerHaifa” 

On March 14, 2019, two rockets were fired from Gaza at Tel Aviv. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) responded with a targeted attack on Hamas military sites in Gaza.

On March 17, 2019, Chisam-Majid tweeted: “... Also if you are interested in making Pitzer college follow through on our historic vote to support Palestinians let me know”

On March 31, 2019, Chisam-Majid co-sponsored a Pitzer student senate resolution of no confidence calling on President Melvin Oliver to rescind his veto of a Pitzer College Council recommendation to suspend the college’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa.

Chisam-Majid also signed a March 2019 Claremont SJP petition condemning Oliver’s veto and demanding its reversal.

Claremont SJP - Overview  

Claremont SJP has expressed support for terrorists, called for Israel’s destruction and rejected dialogue. The group has also demonized Israel, promoted anti-Israel agitators and campaigned for the BDS movement.

Claremont SJP - Demonizing Israel 2018-2019  

On April 2, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled “The Washings: Pinkwashing, Greenwashing, and Faithwashing,” as part of PFW 2019. The Facebook event page accused Israel of “settler colonialism” and also said: “The Washing Campaign has been fundamental in sustaining Israeli apartheid by way of presenting Israel as a progressive entity in an effort to deflect from state-sanctioned crimes against Palestine.”

“Pinkwashing” is an accusation anti-Israel activists use to demean Israel’s engagement with the LGBTQ community as a publicity ruse. “Greenwashing” is an accusation that Israel advocates manipulate the environmental community in order to gain support for Israel. “Faithwashing” is an accusation that supporters of Israel engage in interfaith dialogue to promote a pro-Zionist agenda.  

On March 27, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled “Open Air & Cages: Prison Abolition from Attica to Gaza,” as part of PFW 2019, held on campus from March 25 - April 7, 2019. The event’s Facebook page called the United States and Israel “white supremacist and settler colonial projects.” 

The same event page also said: “This event will work through the solidarity pacts of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Black Panther party who attempted to draw ‘comparisons between racial capitalism in the United States and Israel ...’”

Yasser Arafat, known as the “father of modern terrorism,” was the former leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). During the second intifada, Arafat encouraged children to carry out “martyrdom” operations against Israel.
The Black Panther Party (BPP) was a revolutionary Marxist political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in 1966. BPP advocated the use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government. BPP members were involved in many fatal firefights with police; in 1967, Newton allegedly killed police officer John Frey. 

On March 25, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled, “Visit the Mock Apartheid Wall,” where they built a wall on campus meant to simulate Israel’s security barrier.

Claremont SJP - Promoting Anti-Israel Agitators 2019-2020

On November 14, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted a film screening event featuring anti-Israel activists Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, where Martin reportedly “defended Hamas and placed sole blame on Israel for the lack of peace between both states.” 

Hamas has been designated aterrorist organizationby the European Union, Canada, Australia, the United States and Israel.

Martin was a former anchor for Russian state news agency RT and Venezuelan state news agency Telasur. She has compared [00:00:13] Israel to Nazi Germany and spread anti-Israel propaganda. Martin’s husband, Michael Prysner has defended terrorism and has referred to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as the “Apartheid Defense Forces.”At the Claremont SJP event, Martin reportedly accused a Jewish student journalist of being “associated with ‘white nationalists.’” Prysner also called Israel an “attack dog” of the United States.

At the same event, Claremont SJP screened the film “Gaza Fights for Freedom,” which Prysner and Martin directed and produced. The film’s website said: “Gaza’s protest movement like you’ve never seen before. Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.”

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return 
was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel. 

The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.

March participants declared their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.” Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.

Claremont SJP - Promoting Anti-Israel Agitators 2017-2018

On April 15, 2018, Claremont SJP hosted a “Solidarity Vigil with Gaza” on campus in support of the March of Return riots. The event’s Facebook description alleged Israeli snipers “opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters, killing at least 35 people, including photojournalist Yaser Murtaja while he was wearing a press jacket, and injuring at least 3,000.”

Photojournalist, Yasser Murtaja was reportedly a Hamas spy who useddrones to film Israeli positions and was shot as he filmed the 2018 “March of Return” protest in Gaza, on April 6, 2018.  

On April 14, 2018, Claremont SJP hosted an event on campus, titled “Voices of Palestine Resistance” to promote the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).


The event’s Facebook description said: “The presentation includes an abridged version of Radiance of Resistance, a film by three ISM volunteers serving in Nabi Salih and featuring Ahed Tamimi and her cousin, Janna Ayyad.”

Ahed Tamimi, who has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers, was detained after she was filmed punching and kicking Israeli soldiers. Ayyad, also known as “Janna Jihad,” is a relative of Palestinian propagandist Bassem Tamimi and an anti-Israel youth activist and amateur journalist.

Claremont SJP - Campaigning for BDS 2020-2021

On April 15, 2021, Claremont SJP and 5C JVP introduced their BDS resolution to the ASPC Senate. The resolution mandated ASPC compliance with BDS, including ASPC funding for student groups, and created [p.2] an oversight role for Claremont SJP over the ASPC-run Coop Store and the Coop Fountain restaurant.

The resolution was titled [p.1], “Banning the Use of ASPC Funding to Support the Occupation of Palestine.” It required [p.2] that ASPC “internal spending” could not be used on products or services from companies that “knowingly support the Israeli occupation of Palestine.” 

On April 22, 2021, the ASPC Senate passed the resolution with a vote of 10-0-0. The following day, Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr sent an email to the student body opposing the resolution.

Claremont SJP - Campaigning for BDS 2018-2019

On November 18, 2018, Claremont SJP issued a statement supporting a pro-BDS faculty vote to suspend Pitzer’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel, which Pitzer had run since 2007. Professor Daniel Segal, the Claremont SJP and Claremont JVP faculty advisor, led the boycott campaign. 

In March 2019, the Pitzer College Council (PCC) also voted to suspend the program, but Pitzer President Melvin Oliver said he would veto the PCC recommendation. The PCC is a body of student and faculty members who vote on recommendations to the Pitzer president.

Pitzer Boycott of Haifa Study Abroad Program 2018-2019

On November 8, 2018, Pitzer College faculty reportedly voted for a motion to suspend Pitzer’s Haifa program, which Pitzer had run since 2007. Professor Daniel Segal, the Claremont SJP and Claremont JVP faculty advisor, led the boycott campaign. 

The faculty motion was a non-binding recommendation to Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver. The motion called for the “suspension of the College’s exchange with Haifa University, until (a) the Israeli state ends its restrictions on entry to Israel based on ancestry and/or political speech and (b) the Israeli state adopts policies granting visas for exchanges to Palestinian universities on a fully equal basis as it does to Israeli universities.”

After the faculty vote, the motion was sent to the Pitzer College Council (PCC), Pitzer’s “primary legislative body,” which “votes on policy recommendations forwarded by the faculty as well as committees.” The PCC includes faculty and student senators who issue recommendations to the Pitzer president. The president is then free to approve or disapprove the recommendations.

On November 18, 2018, Claremont SJP issued a statement supporting the pro-BDS faculty vote, saying that it was “imperative” to end the “deeply problematic” Haifa program. Claremont SJP also circulated a petition to the public titled, “No Academic Freedom Under Occupation,” which accused Israel of having “increasingly draconian policies” and employing a “systemic practice of racial discrimination.”

On November 29, 2018, President Oliver responded to the faculty recommendation, opposing it and calling it a “repudiation of our educational mission… an anathema to Pitzer’s core values.” Oliver also questioned the faculty in singling out Israel for special scrutiny among foreign countries like China and Nepal where Pitzer also has study abroad programs.

On March 14, 2019, the PCC passed an amended motion to end the Haifa program. Segal co-sponsored the motion along with Pitzer Professor Claudia Strauss, who served as the Chair of the Pitzer Faculty Executive Committee (FEC). Their motion was a non-binding recommendation for Oliver and it passed with 68 voting in favor, 25 against and eight abstentions.

The amended motion outlined a “uniform policy” ending study abroad programs in countries that “restrict entry on the basis of either (a) legally protected political speech or (b) race or ancestry (as distinct from citizenship).” The motion claimed that the Haifa program violated the “uniform policy” and would be suspended immediately.

Also on March 14, 2019, Oliver released a statement declining to implement the PCC motion, where he said: “By singling out Israel, the recommendation itself is prejudiced.” 

In the statement, Oliver also said: “Although some claim that this is not an academic boycott of Israel, I disagree. The recommendation puts in place a form of academic boycott of Israel and, in the process, sets us on a path away from the free exchange of ideas, a direction which ultimately destroys the academy’s ability to fulfill our educational mission.”

On the same day, Pitzer’s student newspaper, The Student Life, reported: “In advance of the Haifa vote, the organization [Claremont SJP] has focused on outreach to Pitzer faculty and student senators, and on building a coalition of other campus groups.”

On March 15, 2019, Claremont SJP posted on Facebook that they would “continue to organize to suspend Haifa and demand that President Oliver reverse his decision.” Claremont SJP also posted an online petition demanding Oliver rescind his veto of the PCC motion and included the hashtag “#ProApartheidOliver.”

On March 25, 2019, Claremont SJP posted a Facebook event page for its “Palestine Freedom Weeks,” scheduled for March 25 to April 7, 2019. The event page promoted the BDS campaign against the Haifa program and used the hashtags “#SuspendPitzerHaifa” and “#MelvinWontListen.”

On March 31, 2019, the Pitzer College Student Senate, the student government,introduced two resolutions at an “Emergency Meeting” called to address the Haifa program boycott campaign.

Claremont SJP members Shay Lari-Hosain and Jorj Chisam-Majid were among the co-sponsors for the first resolution, which said: “The Pitzer College Student Senate votes no confidence in President Melvin Oliver and, if President Oliver does not retract his anti-democratic decision by the end of the day on April 11, 2019, call for his immediate resignation or removal from office.” 

Pitzer Senate president Shivani Kavuluru and vice presidents Kamyab Mashian and Dawson Reckers were among the co-sponsors for the second resolution. Their resolution censured Oliver for keeping the Haifa program and demanded that Oliver reverse his veto. 

On April 7, 2019, the Pitzer Senate reportedly voted down the resolution of no confidence with 12 for and 20 against. The resolution censuring Oliver passed 29-0.
As of July 2021, Pitzer continued to offer its semester abroad program at the University of Haifa.  

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.