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place on university campus-
es; the most recent at the 
University of Minnesota in 
November. 
The NSJP advocates the 
elimination of the State of 
Israel, and the ending of 
any form of Jewish self-de-
termination in the ancient 
Jewish homeland. The report 
examines how this mission 
is justified politically and 
ideologically, and how it uses 
anti-Semitism and other 
forms of insidious anti-demo-
cratic ideologies for the basis 
of this eliminationist and hate-
filled project taking places on 
university campuses.
The ISGAP report on the 
NSJP defines anti-Semitism 
according to the working 
definition adopted by the 
IHRA, established in 1998 at 
the behest of former Swedish 
Prime Minister Göran 
Persson: “
Anti-Semitism is a 
certain perception of Jews, 
which may be expressed as 
hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical 
and physical manifestations 
of anti-Semitism are directed 
toward Jewish or non-Jewish 
individuals and/or their prop-
erty, toward Jewish commu-
nity institutions and religious 
facilities.”
In keeping with the IHRA 
definition, NSJP, and SJP 
members have demonstrat-
ed consistent and overt 
anti-Semitism via social 
media, protests, violence and 
hate speech. This advocacy of 
and adherence to anti-Semitic 
actions have been demonstrat-
ed not only by individuals, 
but by entire chapters at these 
university-approved entities.
ISGAP’
s report shows that 
it is not just a few extreme 
individuals who are spreading 
anti-Semitism and incitement 
against Jewish students and 
the Jewish community, but 

rather a systematic problem 
within NSJP rooted in its ide-
ology.
The ISGAP report illus-
trates how the anti-Semitism 
that has broken out on college 
campuses that host more than 
200 SJP Chapters is spread 
over regions that span the 
U.S. and Canada. The cam-
puses where the incitement 
to hatred is most insidious 
include Harvard, Columbia, 
Stony Brook, Georgetown, 
Brandeis, Penn State, Rutgers, 
Temple, the Universities 
of Illinois, Minnesota, 
Chicago and Washington, 
UCLA, UC Berkeley, Florida 
State, Universities of North 
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 
Texas at Dallas, Texas at 
Austin and numerous univer-
sities in Canada such as York 
University and the University 
of Toronto, where the BDS 
movement was launched in 
North America. 
The more legitimate the 
anti-Semitism becomes within 
the halls of higher learning, 
the more lethal Jew-hatred 
becomes within society, 
spreading from the classrooms 
to the halls of Congress, from 
lecture halls to city halls.
This report calls upon U.S. 
and Canadian universities to 
adopt the IRHA definition of 
anti-Semitism as a guideline, 
to fight anti-Semitism on 
campus and to protect basic 
academic freedoms and dem-
ocratic principles. It would be 
tragic if universities were to be 
purveyors of hate, rather than 
places to learn and a source 
of inspiration for democratic 
principles steeped in human 
rights. 

From the Special ISGAP Report: 

The Threat to Academic Freedom 

from National Students for Justice in 

Palestine, published October 2019.

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