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Students for Justice in Palestine Time to BOYCOTT Israel

Students for Justice in Palestine groups have developed independently as students across the country seek to raise awareness about the Israeli government’s violations of human rights. Our groups represent constituencies of students, faculty, staff and community members from diverse ethnic, religious, national, and political backgrounds including many Jewish and Israeli members who have been continually ostracized by organizations like the ADL. Our organizations work independently of one another, but collectively, we are united in our belief in justice, freedom and
human rights for the Palestinian people. We are unified by our purpose of confronting these wrongs that cause so much death and suffering.

Students For Justice in Palestine Group Signatories:

Arizona State University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Bard College, International Solidarity Movement
Bates College, Students for Justice in Palestine
Benedictine University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Boston University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Brandeis University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Brown University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Clark University, Students for Palestinian Rights
Columbia University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Cornell University, United for Peace and Justice in Palestine
DePaul University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Florida International University, Miami, Students for Justice in Palestine
George Washington University, Students for Justice in Palestine
Hampshire College- Students for Justice in Palestine
Harvard College- Palestine Solidarity Committee
Harvard University- Alliance for Justice in the Middle East
Illinois Institute of Technology- Students for Justice in Palestine
Loyola University Chicago- Middle East Student Association (MESA)
Macalester College- Macalester Students United for Palestinian
Equal Rights
Massachusetts Institute of Technology- Palestine@MIT
New York University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Northeastern Illinois University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Northeastern University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Northwestern University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Ohio State University- Committee for Justice in Palestine
Purdue University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Rutgers University- BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern
Justice
School of the Art Institute of Chicago- Students for Justice in Palestine
St. Xavier University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Suffolk University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Temple University- Students for Justice in Palestine
Texas Christian University- Students for Justice in Palestine
The Pennsylvania State University- University Park, Students for Justice in Palestine
Tufts University- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Arizona- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, Berkeley- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, Davis- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, Hastings College of the Law- La Raza Law Students Association
University of California, Hastings College of the Law- Middle Eastern Law Students Association
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law- Law Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, Los Angeles- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, Riverside- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, San Diego- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, Santa Barbara- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of California, Santa Cruz- Committee for Justice in Palestine
University of Chicago- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Connecticut- International Relations Association
University of Florida, Gainesville- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Florida- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Illinois at Chicago- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Maryland, Baltimore- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Massachusetts, Boston- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Michigan- Students Allied for Freedom and Equality
University of Pittsburgh- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of South Florida- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Southern California- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Southern California- Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Texas, Austin- Palestine Solidarity Committee
University of Washington, Seattle- Students for Justice in Palestine
Wellesley College- Justice for Palestine.

Sixty-two years after the creation of the State of Israel in historic Palestine and the mass expulsion of 800,000-1 million Palestinians, and forty three years since the beginning of Israel’s brutal, ongoing military occupation and settlement campaign in the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinians remain a people under siege. Their human rights have been consistently violated by the State of Israel, in flagrant violation of international law. These violations include reckless and indiscriminate violence against Palestinian communities by the Israeli military that have killed thousands of Palestinians, the planting and subsidizing of massive, militarized Jew-only Israeli settlements on land confiscated from Palestinians, the prevention of the Palestinian right to return as articulated in UNGA 194, the use of checkpoints and “security barriers” to restrict movement and access to medical care, the confiscation of collective Palestinian property, impunity for armed Jewish terrorist groups operating in Palestinian territory, the practice of targeting medical staff and hospitals, the punishment of entire Palestinian communities through “curfews” that might better be labeled collective house arrest, and economic embargoes against basic foodstuffs and medical supplies.

These actions by the State of Israel are collective and indiscriminate forms of political violence against everyone in Palestine, regardless of their actions – namely, terrorism. This state terrorism, both in its means and its consequences, far outweighs the impotent and desperate violent crimes committed by Palestinians against innocent Israelis that the West has labeled terrorism. In consequence, civilians killed by the Israeli state far outweigh those killed by Palestinians. As for means — when a criminal jumps a fence and blows up a bus, you can call the police; when the police (or in Palestine, the military) blow up entire villages, who do you call?

International Solidarity Movement
Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Movement Against Israel

Understanding the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Movement Against Israel

In the last few years, Palestinians and the solidarity movements in support of Palestinian rights have been successful in drawing attention to Israel as an apartheid state deserving of the same treatment as apartheid South Africa. Prominent individuals such as former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Richard Falk and many others, have used the term apartheid at various moments to refer to Israel’s regime of gross violations of international law. But what is apartheid and exactly why is Israel an apartheid state? Most importantly, why should conscientious people across the world join the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, which has been growing over the last six years?

Yale University- Students for Justice in Palestine