Is Faculty for Justice in Palestine Contributing to Anti-Semitism on Campus?

University of Wisconsin at Madison

According to a recently released study by the Amcha Initiative, the answer seems to be yes.

The Amcha Initiative was founded by two retired University of California professors to study, expose, and counter campus anti-Semitism. Over the years, I have been proud to occasionally collaborate with this group. I fully support what they do. If you go to their website, you can go through their database of documented incidents on US campuses.

In the wake of the October 7, 2023 atrocity against Israel carried out by Hamas animals, we have seen our campuses double down on the pro-Hamas activity, which has become louder, more disruptive, and more violent. As more negative attention has been drawn to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a new organization was formed to support them. That is Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP), a collection of anti-Israel oddballs and misfits who have allied themselves with the explosion in campus encampments and refusals to obey directives of the university, campus police, and outside police who have been attempting to restore order on campus.

The Amcha Initiative study indicates that on campuses where FJP chapters have been formed, anti-Semitic incidents tend to increase. That seems logical since students can only feel empowered when they have faculty supporting them, egging them on, and participating in their campus disruptions. Just days ago, I posted a report that two UC Irvine professors have been charged for their roles in campus disruptions when police were called in to break up the encampment set up by students and outside activists last spring.

Encampments, however, are the least of the problems. The worst aspect of all this is that Jewish students have been intimidated on campus by pro-Palestinian bullies. This has been going on for years, but increased dramatically after October 7. And to make things even worse, students and activists who actually celebrate October 7 have been joined and supported by like-minded professors, some of them even Jewish!

I encourage my readers to read the above report and go through the data base of university incidents that go back years.