Abbreviation | SJP |
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Founded | 1993 |
Founder | Hatem Bazian |
Founded at | University of California, Berkeley |
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Official language | English, French, Maori and Arabic |
Colors | Red, Green, White, Black |
Affiliations | Palestine Solidarity Movement, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights |
Website | nationalsjp |
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP; Arabic: طلاب من أجل العدالة في فلسطين, romanized: Ṭullāb min ajl al-ʿAdāla fī Filasṭīn) is a pro-Palestinian college student activism organization in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. It has campaigned for boycott and divestment against corporations that deal with Israel and organized events about Israel's human rights violations. In 2011, The New York Times reported that "S.J.P., founded in 2001 at the University of California, Berkeley, has become the leading pro-Palestinian voice on campus."[1]
As of 2019, SJP had over 200 chapters at American and Canadian universities.[2] Some SJP chapters in the U.S. have adopted the name Palestine Solidarity Committee or Students for Palestinian Equal Rights. In Canada, some SJP chapters have adopted the name Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).
"There was a summit on anti-Semitism and we presented our findings, and now this report is focusing on the National Students for Justice in Palestine. They have over 200 chapters in Canadian and American universities and we believe that they are sort of the shock troops of contemporary anti-Semitism on campus."