ANNOUNCEMENTS • STATEMENTS • PRESS RELEASES

ANNOUNCEMENTS • STATEMENTS • PRESS RELEASES

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Fall 2021 G-Body Meeting for SJP & JVP
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Fall 2021 G-Body Meeting for SJP & JVP

We will be having an upcoming g-body meeting for students interested in joining Students for Justice in Palestine & Jewish Voice for Peace, this Thursday, October 21st.

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CUAD Official Statement on NY State Anti-BDS Law
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CUAD Official Statement on NY State Anti-BDS Law

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…

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Media Review 2015-2016
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Media Review 2015-2016

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.

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SJP “Israel Week” Action
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SJP “Israel Week” Action

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.

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CSJP Statement in Solidarity with NAHM on Indigenous People’s Day
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CSJP Statement in Solidarity with NAHM on Indigenous People’s Day

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 Americas.

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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine receives a bomb threat during annual Israeli Apartheid Week
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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine receives a bomb threat during annual Israeli Apartheid Week

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 on Tuesday, March 24th…

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Center for Constitutional RIGHTS letter to Barnard Administration

Dear President Spar: We at the Center for Constitutional Rights are writing to convey our serious concerns with Barnard College’s recent removal of a Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (C-SJP) banner advertising Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) events.

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Student Governing Board Statement on SJP Banner Removal

The mission of the Student Governing Board is to represent and serve the needs of Columbia University student organizations whose concerns are religious, spiritual, political, ideological, activist, humanitarian, or identity-conscious in nature. The SGB is dedicated to the principle of community self-government, and believing that in the final analysis…

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Student Groups Stand in Solidarity with SJP

Here are student groups who have signed on to Columbia SJP’s statement regarding the removal of its banner from Barnard Hall, and have written their own statements about the issue. These groups support SJP’s right to have its voice represented on campus, some of them regardless of political affiliation:

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Statements of Support from Student Groups

Statement of support for Columbia SJP from the Freedom School, a committee at the Intercultural Resource Center: “As a group founded upon the ideals of radical political education we recognize that the existence of our group is predicated upon the administration allowing student groups to peer educate on various oppressions…

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Letter from the Anthropology Graduate Students about Banner Removal
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Letter from the Anthropology Graduate Students about Banner Removal

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…

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Official Statement Regarding Barnard Administration’s SJP Banner Removal
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Official Statement Regarding Barnard Administration’s SJP Banner Removal

On March 10th, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine hung a banner on Barnard Hall. The banner was placed after members of C­SJP went through the required bureaucratic channels and processes in order to give voice and presence to our week­long events as part of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), a global period of action and awareness…

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Academic Freedom

Recent bills have been introduced in the New York and Maryland State legislatures, as well as in the United States Congress, have called for measures to punish academic groups that support boycotts of Israel by threatening the funding of institutions with which they are associated. A similar bill is expected to be introduced in the Illinois Legislature…

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