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A pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University announced that its account was “permanently banned” from Instagram.

A University of Chicago student newspaper removed an op-ed condemning antisemitism by the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. The op-ed’s removal was followed up with an apology letter by the editors of the newspaper’s “Viewpoints” opinion section. Despite censoring an op-ed against antisemitism on campus, the paper’s opinion editors maintain that is a “space that intends to facilitate free speech on campus.”

University of Pennsylvania Law School (Penn Law)’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group is urging its fellow students not to go on a trip that it claims seeks to “improve Israel’s image.”

The University of Florida’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine posted several antisemitic messages on Instagram this week. The group previously came under fire after they were accused of hurling antisemitic remarks at a campus guest lecturer from the Israeli Defense Force.

The local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California Irvine has been sanctioned with disciplinary probation for two academic years for disrupting a pro-Israel event earlier this year.

TEL AVIV – The University of Texas’s Student Government passed a unanimous resolution in support of Jewish students in response to the wave of anti-Semitic incidents on campus and at Jewish institutions across the U.S.

Last week, the Associated Students of UC Riverside voted 13-0 in favor of a resolution calling for the removal of hummus that is partially owned by an Israeli company from all campus dining services.

JERUSALEM – An event attended by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was slammed by pro-Israel student groups over its claim that “Israel manipulates the minds of politicians and ordinary Americans.”

TEL AVIV – Anti-Israel activists at Washington University stormed out of a guest lecture by an Israeli LGBT activist, saying his claims that the Jewish state is a “haven” for the gay community was “pinkwashing” Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists are marching in anti-Trump protests and calling for violence against Israel in what has been slammed as a “hijack” of other movements in order to promote an anti-Israel agenda.

TEL AVIV – Anti-Israel activism on U.S. college campuses has undergone a regional shift, with the Midwest experiencing a sharp increase of in anti-Israel boycott activities while the West Coast, formerly the center of anti-Israel involvement, is waning, a new study has found.

Several groups of students at the University of California Irvine held anti-Israel events last week, upstaging Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), the annual memorial of the genocide of 6 million Jews during the Second World War.

UC Riverside has reversed an earlier decision to ban the sale of a popular hummus brand that is partially owned by an Israeli company after an anti-Israel student group, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), made the request.

LOS ANGELES, California — With anti-Israel sentiment spreading on college campuses around the world, especially through the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement, experts gathered in Los Angeles on Sunday to suggest ways to push back during Stand With Us’s first anti-BDS conference.