We are hosting our first general interest meeting for Columbia/Barnard Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace on October 21, 2021 over Zoom. Due to COVID restrictions to follow public health precautions, the G-body meeting will solely be on Zoom, so please register if you are student interested in learning on how to be involved in SJP & JVP!
Brown, RISD, and Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapters are excited to announce that we’re hosting a series of events as part of a collaborative Palestine week of action! Liberatory Politics: Palestine & Everyday Resistance will be a virtual panel on Friday, February 26th from 3:30-5:30 pm EST with Leila Abdelrazaq, Mohammed El Kurd,…
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order signed yesterday is a disappointment for the BDS movement in New York State and a failure of the democratic process. The executive order will create a list of persons and entities that express a particular political viewpoint, and then bar New York from doing business with and investing in those on…
A round up of published op-eds, media coverage, and articles by and about Columbia SJP, JVP, and Apartheid Divest during the course of this academic year in chronological order. Fall 2015 JVP When it comes to Israel Week, nothing is apolitical Spring 2016 JVP We anti-Occupation Activists Aren’t a ‘Danger’ to the American Jewish Community CUAD Columbia University…
This year, Aryeh, the Zionist formation at Columbia, teamed up with ThinkIsrael, an arm of the Israeli government ministry of tourism, for their first ever Israel Week. They advertised this as “an apolitical celebration of a few distinct parts of Israeli society.” SJP wanted to join in on the fun. On 11/17/15, SJP members silently…
Happy National Cat Day. Bean is wearing a mini cat sized kuffiyeh made by the Hebron Women’s Embroidery Cooperative
As a student group seeking justice for Palestinians who have faced settler colonialism resulting in ethnic cleansing and displacement we, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, recognize the transnational plight of indigenous peoples. We stand in solidarity with Native American Council of Columbia University in their struggle for justice for the indigenous peoples of the…
On March 10, 2014 Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine created a banner to advertise USA Israeli Apartheid Week. The banner featured a map of historic Palestine and the tag line “Stand for Justice, Stand for Palestine -CSJP IAW”. The banner received administrative approval through all the necessary bureaucratic channels, yet despite this, was removed…
For immediate release: March 26, 2015 As part of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine’s (CSJP) annual tradition of holding a series of events in recognition of Israeli Apartheid Week, an international initiative to raise awareness about the discriminatory policies of the state of Israel, a panel discussion titled Media, Solidarity and Palestine was held…
March 14, 2014 To: The Administration Barnard College Columbia University We are writing to you as concerned members of the Columbia University Anthropology Graduate Student Association, and as members of the Barnard and Columbia community. We are writing as students and scholars, who are committed to unrestricted political expression, to express our dismay at the…