Standing up to Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP)

Subsequent to the horrific attacks by Hamas upon Jewish civilians in Israel on October 7, 2023, US campuses exploded in support, not of Israel, which has suffered the most hideous and catastrophic attack upon the Jewish people since the Holocaust, but in support of Hamas. Naturally, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a despicable, anti-Semitic organization, which for years, has engaged in tactics of disruption, bullying, and intimidation on college campuses in the name of  attacking the Jewish state of  Israel.

As SJP took the lead in setting up obnoxious encampments on university campuses across the nation this year, at last, several university administrators got up off their duffs and called in the police to break them up and restore order and safety, especially for Jewish students. 

During all this mess that we observed here in the US earlier this year, a bunch of university professors across the nation established campus chapters of Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) to support SJP and pressure their schools to join the BDS movement against Israel (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) including boycotts of Israel universities and the cutting off of joint projects and exchanges with Israeli universities. This would also shut down student exchange programs with Israeli universities.

Let me be clear: Like SJP, FJP is made up of Jew-haters and misfits (including misfit Jews) who detest not only Israel but America and Western civilization in general. In a way, they are worse than SJP in that they are older than SJP members and supposedly wiser. Yet they are the very ones egging on the SJP brownshirts. They and their leftist brethren in academia have literally corrupted the culture of American universities.

The AMCHA Initiative is a California-based organization dedicated to exposing and combatting campus anti-Semitism. I am proud to call them my friends and colleagues. I highly recommend you visit their website and follow what they do. For example, they have an extensive database of anti-Semitic incidents on university campuses over the past several years. They also collaborate with other organizations to put pressure on universities to protect their Jewish students. This week, they have put out a press release announcing their program to stand up to FJP. I am cross-posting it here. It includes two videos which I encourage you to watch. (They are both under 3 minutes in length.)

The press release can be accessed here.