Luis Cervantes Rodriguez
Overview
SJSU was reportedly the first California State University (CSU) to pass a divestment resolution.
Rodriguez was affiliated with SJP at SJSU in 2015.
From 2015 to 2017, Rodriguez served as the Director of Community and Sustainability on SJSU'S Associated Students (A.S.) Board of Directors.
As of January 2022, Rodriguez indicated in his Instagram bio that he provided “sanitary, quality haircuts to the SJ [San Jose] community” at “@theparlorsv” in Silicon Valley.
Also, as of January 2022, Rodriguez’s LinkedIn said he was an Environmental Services Manager at Xanitos Inc. since February 2018.
Rodriguez’s LinkedIn also said he graduated from SJSU with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies in 2017.
As of December 2021, Rodrigeuz went by the name“Luisito Cervantes” on Facebook and used the handle “dontsteponthebutterflies” on his Instagram and TikTok accounts.
Promoting Divestment on Campus
The BDS resolution was titled:“In Support of Divestment from Companies That Profit from the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories.”
The resolution, submitted by Abid El-Miaari, a co-founder of SJP at SJSU and endorsed by 27 SJSU student groups, called on the Board of Directors of the Tower Foundation to divest SJSU’s holdings in a number of companies doing business with Israel.
According to SJSU’s website, the Tower Foundation directly “manages all financial aspects of funds donated to” SJSU.
On November 4, 2015, the resolution was approved with a vote of5-2-0 and put forward to the A.S. Board of Directors.
On November 17, 2015, Rodriguez promoted SJP at SJSU’s divestment resolution on Facebook by providing readers with a link to an online petition titled:“PASS SJSU Divestment!” calling on SJSU to support their divestment initiative.
Rodriguez also signed the petition and left a comment under “Reasons for signing” that read: “Proffiting [sic] from an illegal occupation is morally wrong...I'd rather be poor and jobless than to know I worked for an organization that profits from the murder of innocent people.”
On November 18, 2015, Rodriguez sat on the panel for the divestment hearing and vote, as one of SJSU’s A.S. Board of Directors. The resolution passed with a 10-5-0 vote, reportedly making SJSUthe first campus in the CSU system to pass a divestment measure.
On December 15, 2015, Board Members of SJSU’s Tower Foundation unanimously rejected the divestment resolution.
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/100001050605247
- Status:
- Professional
- University:
- San-Jose-State
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- SJP
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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