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Shraddha Joshi
Shraddha Joshi participated in an anti-Israel protest in New York City in November 2025 that targeted Jews who were attending an event at a synagogue.
Shraddha Joshi has also spread hatred of Israel and engaged in anti-Israel activism. She is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The profilee's activism occurred during an extended period of global antisemitism that began with the October 7, 2023, terror attacks, when Hamas murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds. Israel subsequently launched a war against Hamas.
In September 2023, Joshi was a member of Harvard PSC, the group that co-organized the October 2023 statement blaming Israel for Hamas terrorism. PSC is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). She was an organizer with Harvard PSC in November 2022.
In February 2022, Joshi was an activist with Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), a BDS campaign launched by Harvard PSC in February 2020.
As of November 2025, Joshi’s LinkedIn profile said she worked as a paralegal at The Door.
Also as of November 2025, Joshi’s LinkedIn said she had worked as an editorial content management intern at the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C., from January to April 2025.
As of the same date, Joshi’s LinkedIn said she had worked as a podcast intern at the anti-Israel Al Jazeera Media Network from August to September 2024.
Joshi graduated from the University of Cambridge (Cambridge) with a master's degree in “Sociology of Marginality and Exclusion” in 2025.
Joshi also graduated from Harvard University (Harvard) with a bachelor’s degree in social studies in 2024.
As of November 2025, Shraddha Joshi's LinkedIn said she was located in New York, New York.
On November 20, 2025, Joshi was featured [00:00:09] in a Facebook video participating in an anti-Israel protest in New York City in November 2025 that targeted Jews who were attending an event at a synagogue.
In the video, Joshi accused [00:00:12] Israel of "illegal occupation of Palestine" and [00:00:26] "settler-colonialism." She also referred [00:00:20] to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as the "Israeli occupation forces."
“Israeli Occupation Forces,” or “IOF,” is a derogatory name for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army.
On November 19, 2025, approximately 200 anti-Israel protesters gathered outside the Park East Synagogue in New York City to oppose an event being hosted inside the synagogue by Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting potential Jewish immigrants to Israel.
Many protesters wore keffiyehs over their faces, and they stood directly outside the synagogue and chanted in support of terrorism. Individual protesters threatened violence and reportedly shouted antisemitic slurs.
The protest was organized by the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation (PAL-AWDA NY/NJ) and promoted by the New York City chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), known as JVP NYC. The pro-Hamas group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) was reportedly also among the organizers.
Protest videos posted on X showed protestors chanting: “RESISTANCE, YOU MAKE US PROUD! TAKE ANOTHER SETTLER OUT!" Among anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
Protesters also chanted: "Intifada, intifada! Long live Gaza! Say it loud, say it clear, we don't want no Zionists [here]!" The term “intifada” carries the connotation of terrorist violence.
Pro-Israel counterprotesters stood in front of the synagogue and were shouted at by the protesters. One threatened to slit a counterprotester's throat, while another reportedly shouted: "F**king Jewish pricks."
Another video showed protesters shouting: "DEATH, DEATH, TO THE IDF [Israel Defense Forces]!" and: "GO TO HELL! GO TO HELL!"
Fox News showed [00:00:35] protesters stomping on an Israeli flag and chanting [00:00:22]: "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!", a chant used to call for the elimination of the State of Israel.
One day before the protest, PAL-AWDA NY/NJ posted a promotional flyer to X that said: “NO SETTLERS ON STOLEN LAND / PROTEST THE SETTLER RECRUITING FAIR." The flyer featured a photo of Jewish immigrants disembarking from a chartered NBN flight. On the front of the plane was the word "Jerusalem," which PAL-AWDA NY/NJ underlined and inserted text alleging: "Established in Europe."
One way that anti-Israel activists spread antisemitism is to claim that Jews do not descend from the ancient Israelites, but are allegedly white Europeans who lack a connection to the Land of Israel entirely. The same flyer also accused Israel of "Genocide," and referred to the IDF as the "IOF," a term meaning the "Israel Occupation Forces."
On November 24, 2025, PAL-AWDA NY/NJ posted on X: "It's our duty to protest NBN's role in the ongoing colonization of Palestine." The post had a graphic promoting a December 2, 2025, protest, and the post accused Israel of perpetrating an "ongoing genocide...illegal settlement and ethnic cleansing of Palestine." The graphic featured a sign that said: "F**k Israel."
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
CNN reported that in response to the protest, the spokesperson for New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said that Mamdani “believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation...and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law."
On October 8, 2023, the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) chapter released on Instagram a “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine.”
The statement read: “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime responsible for all unfolding violence.” The statement also claimed the atrocities “did not occur in a vacuum” and that “The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation.” The list of student groups that signed on to the statement was later removed following public outrage.
For more information on the complete list of Harvard students involved in signing the statement, see here.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, thousands of heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
On August 8, 2022, Joshi wrote a post on her blog in which she accused Israel of apartheid and referred to Israel as “a colonial military project that is built on and continues to perpetuate the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.”
Joshi also claimed, in reference to Gaza, that Israel led “a siege on strip [sic] of blockaded land that has been reduced to an open-air prison.” In the same post, Joshi claimed that Palestinians killed during clashes with Israeli forces are “targeted and their lives are seen as dispensable.”
The United Nations approved [pp. 39–41] the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in 2011 as a security measure to stop Hamas from acquiring sophisticated rockets. Multiple flotillas have attempted to breach the blockade, with at least one initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces.
Following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the Israeli military discovered that Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On July 20, 2021, Joshi hosted a podcast titled: “When Borders Cross People.” The official transcript quoted Joshi referring to Israel’s security barrier as “physical manifestations of violence against systemically oppressed and indigenous communities.” Joshi also claimed the barrier “leads to the ghettoization of Palestinian communities.”
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.
Joshi also said in the podcast, referring to Palestinian activist Jamal Juma: “He tells me about the start of wall construction, in 2002, following what he said was a huge military assault and attack on Palestinians, a period referred to by the Israeli government as Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale offensive…”
On March 29, 2002, during the second intifada, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield (ODS). The operation was launched in response to a Palestinian suicide bomber’s murder of 30 civilians at a Passover seder held at a hotel in the Israeli city of Netanya. ODS resulted in a significant decrease in terror attacks.
During Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW), Joshi signed [p. 16] a May 12, 2021 statement published by “Palestine Student Groups” at Harvard that claimed [p. 1]: “The current escalation of violence against Palestinians in Palestine and in Israel follows years of systematic oppression and ethnic cleansing committed by the State of Israel.”
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 statement also alleged [p. 1] that “Forced evictions…in [Jerusalem neighborhood] Sheikh Jarrah, are representative of Israel's systematic settler-colonial violence that serves to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from East Jerusalem.”
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.
The statement concluded [p. 3]: “To the Harvard administration, we demand that the University makes a public statement rebuking Israel’s excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians. We call on our university to end its complicity with Israeli apartheid policies and occupation by removing its investments in companies that are involved in the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise…”
On December 7, 2022, Joshi posted an Instagram Story promoting a protest organized by HOOP and PSC, titled: “MARCH FOR PALESTINIAN LIVES. DIVEST FROM ISRAELI APARTHEID.”
On October 24, 2022, Joshi was quoted in an article in the student-run Harvard Crimson (the Crimson) supporting a PSC campaign calling for a boycott of Harvard College Israel Trek, a Harvard-subsidized trip to Israel. According to the Crimson article, PSC publicity materials claimed the trip “whitewashes the crimes of a racist, settler colonial state that dehumanizes and kills Palestinians each day.”
On May 23, 2022, Joshi participated in an Electronic Intifada podcast as a member of PSC. The podcast discussed an opinion piece written by the Crimson editorial board supporting BDS.
Joshi said [00:10:54] during the podcast: “I hope that…the Crimson editorial will inspire other universities to…continue their dialogue about what’s going on in Palestine.” She continued, referring to Harvard: “I hope that this can be the starting point for us to re-evaluate our relationship with occupation and for the administration to…look at what can be done in response.”
On May 13, 2022, Joshi posted [slide 4] on her Instagram page a photo in which she posed in front of a “mock apartheid wall.”
The “mock apartheid wall” is a series of panels meant to represent Israel's security barrier, which was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks and in response to Palestinian sniper attacks. Panels feature misleading information and graphics intended to demonize Israel. The “mock apartheid wall” is often featured at Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) events organized annually by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters on many North American university campuses.
In 2022, Joshi signed [p. 6] a letter demanding that the Harvard Kennedy School suspend a weekly study group on Israeli national security led by retired Israeli major general Amos Yadlin.
The letter alleged [p. 1]: “Harvard’s hosting of Yadlin as a senior fellow not only normalizes Israeli war crimes, but represents an act of violence against Palestinian students who face six decades of Israeli ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and apartheid.”
On February 1, 2022, Joshi reportedly participated in a protest held outside the classroom where the first of Yadlin’s study group sessions was being held. A sign pictured at the protest said: “THIS ‘TEACHER’ UPHELD ISRAELI APARTHEID.”
Joshi was quoted in a February 1, 2022 article in the Crimson as saying: “We want to give a message to the students that they should be really mindful of the kind of people that they’re platforming…It’s also a larger message to the University, to sort of think about how Harvard has been — and is complicit in — issues of colonialism and apartheid.”
The Crimson also reported that Joshi wrote in a statement: “We intend to maintain a sustained effort to spread awareness about HOOP and push back against Harvard’s choice to platform the fellow.”
In May 2021, Joshi reportedly participated in three PSC Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) virtual events, including one on BDS.
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.
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 Student 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.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
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