ANNOUNCEMENTS • STATEMENTS • PRESS RELEASES
ANNOUNCEMENTS • STATEMENTS • PRESS RELEASES
Interested in archival photos from Columbia SJP’s activities between 2010 and 2026? Visit our photo archive!
Want to find information published by Columbia SJP prior to 2013? Visit the Columbia SJP website archive!
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.
Liberatory Politics: Palestine & Everyday Resistance
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!
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…
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.
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.
Happy National Cat Day from CSJP
Happy National Cat Day. Bean is wearing a mini cat sized kuffiyeh made by the Hebron Women’s Embroidery Cooperative
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.
PalLegal Report “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech”
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…
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…
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.
Press Coverage of Recent Events – IAW, Banner Removal, Speak-out
A Catalog of Media Appearances and Press Mentions
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…
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:
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…
Dabke Flashmob at Israeli Apartheid Wall
Watch our Dabke Flashmob at the Israeli Apartheid Wall
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…
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…
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…
NSJP Statement of Thanks and Solidarity with the American Studies Association
On Monday morning, the National Council of the American Studies Association announced that its membership had voted – by a thundering two-thirds majority – to support the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions…
SJP endorses the Columbia Prison Divestment Campaign
SJP endorses the Columbia Prison Divestment Campaign
As of June 30, 2013, Columbia owned 230,432 shares, worth a market value of roughly $8 million, in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison company in the United States…