Shira Robinson
Overview
Shira Robinson is a professor who spread hatred of Israel on a university panel during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023. Robinson has also demonized Israel, defended anti-Semitism, engaged in anti-Israel activism, and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.The late 2023 incident occurred after Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, which including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, on October 7, 2023. The attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of January 2024, Robinson was listed as an associate professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University (GWU).
During Robinson’s undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, she was chair of the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC). PSC is an alternative name for the anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
12/4/2023 - Hatred of Israel during a Hamas War
On December 4, 2023, Robinson was featured as a speaker on a panel titled: “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and Palestine.”During the panel, Robinson said in a video [00:00:01]: “All of us have been shaken by the events of October 7th, but we all recognize that those events have a history.”
Robinson also reportedly accused Israel of “deliberately” targeting “residential buildings, bakeries, schools, universities, and UN shelters.” The online event was hosted by the GWU Institute for Middle East Studies and the GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences Anti-Racism Coalition.
Robinson retweeted an October 11, 2023 tweet that said the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, against Israel served to “shatter a psychological barrier as consequential as the physical one.”
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
Demonizing Israel
In 2014, in the wake of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas in Gaza, Robinson signed an anti-Israel statement blaming Israel for the war and saying Israel was effecting an “obscene assault on Gaza.”Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
In 2013, Robinson published a book called “Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State.” Robinson said the main subject of her book was the “racism deliberately built into Israel’s legal and political DNA in order to maintain the privilege of Jewish immigrant-settlers at the expense of the indigenous Arab minority.”
Defending Anti-Semitism
Puar reportedly advocated for armed resistance against Israel. She also suggested that Israelis kill Palestinians to harvest their organs. Puar also claimed Israel was using “‘asphyxiating’ biopolitical control over body and environment to suppress the Palestinian people” via “maiming” as well as “stunting” them with poisoning and “calorie starvation.”
The letter addressed to President Hill slammed objections to Puar’s libelous incitement against Israel as attacks on freedom of speech and the integrity of “an invited guest.”
Anti-Israel Activism (BDS)
In January 2016, Robinson reportedly sponsored an anti-Israel resolution that was presented at the annual American Historical Association (AHA) convention. The resolution, which failed to pass, was titled: “Protecting the Right to Education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
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/shira.robinsonTwitter:https://twitter.com/shiranrobinson
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/shira-robinson-69b87377/
University Website:https://elliott.gwu.edu/robinson
- Status:
- Professor
- University:
- George-Washington,
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- Organizations:
- BDS,
- PSC
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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