The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is one of the most radical anti-Israel groups active on U.S. college campuses.
Via Campus Reform:
Northeastern University (NU) has suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter for repeatedly violating the school’s code of conduct — but the group blames the suspension on racism.
“This unprecedented ban and appalling prosecutions are the latest attempt by the university to suppress pro-Palestine speech, and continues the university’s disturbing history of enacting injustice,” reads SPJ’s statement on the incident.
NU suspended SPJ last week after members of the group placed eviction notices under students’ doors in an attempt to start a discussion about how Israeli forces have removed Palestinians from their homes.
The SJP chapter has had a history of campus controversies, from crashing a Holocaust Awareness Week event in 2011 to NU SJP spokesman Max Geller’s tendency to wear clothing with Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad symbols on it, as detailed in an article on FrontPage Magazine.
“It’s hard enough being a brown person with an Arabic name on campus,” Geller said in an article on Mondoweiss, a website which covers Middle East news