SJP Hate Group Fights for Right to Harass Jews at UCLA

SJP Hate Group Fights for Right to Harass Jews at UCLA [Excerpts]

The University of California has an anti-Semitism problem. Its name is Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). 

As the University of California faces a debate over anti-Semitism between Jewish civil rights groups, concerned by the atmosphere of hate on campus, and Students for Justice in Palestine, which is responsible for much of the hate, one Jewish civil rights group reports that 70 testimonials have been collected from UC Jewish students describing intimidation by SJP and other BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] hate groups. 

Jewish students describe being told, “Hitler was right” by a Students for Justice in Palestine member and being called “Kike” and “Dirty Jew” by SJP bigots. 

A Jewish student government member at UC Santa Cruz was recently told to abstain from voting on a pro-BDS hate measure because of his “Jewish agenda.”

Now the ACLU of Southern California has taken a stand, not on behalf of the Jewish students, but is instead engaging in legal intimidation of the student government in support of the SJP BDS hate group.

When the UCLA Graduate Student Association attempted to take a neutral position on the Jewish State denying ad-hoc funding to organizations promoting the racist “divestment” campaign against Israel in an event meant to promote diversity, the ACLU joined the SJP hate group and other radical organizations in threatening legal action against the GSA for not funding activities that create a hostile campus for Jews.

Funding for the Diversity Town Hall had been provided on an ad-hoc basis by the GSA, rather than through a formal application process, as even the SJP-ACLU legal letter threatening the UCLA GSA admitted, making the letter little more than a shakedown effort with no legal credibility behind it.

And a Diversity Town Hall is by definition not meant to exclude a particular group, Jewish students, or to promote hate. The ACLU would not have insisted on funding for the KKK at a Diversity Town Hall.

Why then did it insist on backing an organization with a history of harassing Jewish students?

(Greenfield, "SJP Hate Group Fights for Right to Harass Jews at UCLA," from the FrontPageMag website, Nov. 23, 2015).