Documents Reveal How Anti-Israel Group at California Public Universities Got Campus Funding for Highly Charged Political Activities
Documents from several California public universities reveal that activists with campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine received thousands of dollars in campus grants for their activities, which included funding for controversial anti-Israel speakers and highly charged political campus events.
Two Northeastern University students choosing not to give their names carry a Palestinian flag during a protest in support of Palestine after a Northeastern University student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, was “temporarily suspended for multiple violations of university policy over an extended period of time,” according to a university statement in Boston March 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
Among the surprising revelations in the documents: San Diego State University’s “Associated Students” organization — which organizes the student government and campus cultural activities — covered travel expenses for students to attend the SJP’s 2014 national conference at Tufts University, where invited speakers included Muhammed Desai, the coordinator of South Africa’s boycott-Israel movement who just a year earlier defended those who chanted the words “shoot the Jew” at an anti-Israel rally.
TheBlaze viewed documents that appeared to show that the San Diego student association reimbursed SJP activists for round-trip flight tickets from San Diego to Boston for the 2014 Tufts event.
The documents, which were obtained through a California state freedom of information filing and then analyzed by NGO-Monitor — a Jerusalem-based research organization that tracks non-profits that promote a boycott of Israel — included travel grant applications, student association finance committee meeting minutes, grant approval letters, and flight ticket itineraries.
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