Northeastern recently banned Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and threatened disciplinary measures against some of its members. The university attributed the ban to postings on campus replicas of eviction notices that are routinely put up on Palestinian homes set for Israeli demolition.
In 2011 in California, 10 students who had disrupted a speech at UC Irvine by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren were found guilty, put on informal probation and sentenced to perform community service.
Activists at Florida Atlantic University were stripped of student leadership positions after they walked out of a talk by an Israeli army officer and were ordered by school administrators to attend re-education seminars designed by the Anti-Defamation League.
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (CSJP) was placed on suspension in the spring of 2011 and barred from reserving rooms and hosting events on campus. The university administration, before the ban, had a practice of notifying the campus Hillel in advance of any CSJP event. The suspension was eventually lifted after a protest led by attorneys for the CSJP.
Is Israel behind these actions?
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