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CU Boulder Has a Problem with Radical, Pro-Palestinian Faculty Group
As the academic year ends, there continues to be a notable rise in anti-Israel and anti-Zionist propaganda, worsened by harmful protests by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at CU Boulder.
Despite being derecognized as a student group last semester, SJP’s negative impact persists, and they have ongoing influence across the campus. These student activists are not acting alone; they have support from a group with considerably more power: Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP).
The FSJP website spreads overtly anti-Zionist propaganda and statements that harm Jews, which has observably provoked unrest on campus.
Meanwhile, SJP’s “activism” has consisted mainly of taking over public spaces, hosting known antisemites, and bullying and harassing Jewish students. Throughout that whole time, FSJP participants have used their position as faculty members to enable this behavior.
This is why FSJP poses a greater danger than the student groups. According to their Instagram, the CU chapter of FSJP started in May 2024; however, FSJP nationwide was founded after October 7, with a problematic mission statement. Their official website states, “FSJP supports campus groups of faculty and staff organizing for Palestinian liberation. It was established in solidarity with our students during the 2023-25 war on Palestinian communities – a U.S.-backed assault against a colonized, dispossessed, and oppressed population.”
This statement entirely dismisses the identity of the Jewish people and the State of Israel by using the outdated stereotype that Israel functions as a colonizer state, and ignores the true reason for the current war — the mass rape and murder of Jews by a popular Palestinian terrorist group and their supporters.
When the Ethnic Studies department decided to publish a statement in support of Palestinian liberation this past semester, continuing the trend of pro-Palestinian groups ignoring the atrocities on October 7, it became clear that the entire department had been taken over by these activists masquerading as professors.
While the statement was retracted following the university’s request, a revised version was issued that weakly expressed an opposition to antisemitism “in any form,” and continued to display justification toward the biggest source of antisemitism on the planet — the Palestinian anti-Israel movement.
And this neutered statement still failed to acknowledge the violence experienced by Israelis and Jewish people worldwide, or the mass protests that began just days after Hamas’ mass murder.
FSJP expresses no reservations regarding their past behavior, and has attempted to pressure the university to allow student groups free rein to break school policies with outrageous requests. Their only agenda seems to be aiding students intent on excluding the majority of Jewish voices.
Two of the most egregious demands are that the institution solely accommodate the Palestinian community’s support and safety, and divest entirely from Israel.
For readers unaware, “divesting from Israel” is a euphemism that has become particularly favored by anti-Israel groups like these; it is essentially a call for the university to discriminate against Israelis based on their nationality, and to take away resources and programs from students interested in learning from Israeli institutions.
The social media post that FSJP created with the list of six demands all have a similar underlying theme: the dismantlement of Jewish life on campus, and imposing a Palestinian lens on all education and discourse related to the conflict in the Middle East.
They also explicitly demand divestment not only from Israeli institutions, but also the two major Jewish institutions on campus, Hillel and Chabad, which they view as Israeli because of their ties to Israel and pro-Israel culture.
It is one thing for a student group to exercise their freedom of speech, even if it is hate speech. CU Boulder is a state school, and college is supposed to be a place where people learn about “activism.”
However, they crossed the line when faculty openly shared their political beliefs and forced them on students, and then supported groups that violate school policy. This is not activism — it is forced indoctrination and hate speech.
Compare FSJP and their “partners” in the Ethnic Studies department to the Jewish Studies department. When the campus situation started heating up, faculty from the Jewish Studies department issued an official statement articulating their position on the ongoing conflict, and explicitly refrained from endorsing any expressions of hatred towards either Israel or the Palestinians.
No student in higher education should ever be pressured to conform to, or feel threatened by, a professor’s political views — especially when those views implicitly endorse acts of terrorism against the student’s minority group.
The actions of FSJP not only threaten academic freedom and integrity, but they also actively insert and enable a toxic culture on campus that targets Jews.
Allowing this group to continue without any scrutiny is a disservice to our campus community, and a betrayal of the Jewish community.
Zoe Mardiks is a recent University of Colorado Boulder graduate, and current CAMERA on Campus fellow.
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Trump Administration to Release Over $5 Billion School Funding That It Withheld

US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and President Donald Trump, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US, March 20, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria
President Donald Trump’s administration will release more than $5 billion in previously approved funding for K-12 school programs that it froze over three weeks ago under a review, which had led to bipartisan condemnation.
“(The White House Office of Management and Budget) has completed its review … and has directed the Department to release all formula funds,” Madi Biedermann, deputy assistant secretary for communications at the U.S. Education Department, said in a statement, adding funds will be dispersed to states next week.
Further details on the review and what it found were not shared.
A senior administration official said “guardrails” would be in place for the amount being released, without giving details.
Early in July, the Trump administration said it would not release funding previously appropriated by Congress for schools and that an initial review found signs the money was misused to subsidize what it alleged was “a radical leftwing agenda.”
States say $6.8 billion in total was affected by the freeze. Last week, $1.3 billion was released.
After the freeze, a coalition of mostly Democratic-led states sued to challenge the move, and 10 Republican US senators wrote to the Republican Trump administration to reverse its decision.
The frozen money covered funding for education of migrant farm workers and their children; recruitment and training of teachers; English proficiency learning; academic enrichment and after-school and summer programs.
The Trump administration has threatened schools and colleges with withholding federal funds over issues like climate initiatives, transgender policies, pro-Palestinian protests against U.S. ally Israel’s war in Gaza and diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
Republican US lawmakers welcomed the move on Friday, while Democratic lawmakers said there was no need to disrupt funding in the first place.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon separately said she was satisfied with what was found in the review and released the money, adding she did not think there would be future freezes.
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Israel to Resume Airdrop Aid to Gaza on Saturday, Military Says

Palestinians carry aid supplies which they received from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Israel will resume airdrop aid to Gaza on Saturday night, the Israeli military said, a few days after more than 100 aid agencies warned that mass starvation was spreading across the enclave.
“The airdrops will include seven pallets of aid containing flour, sugar, and canned food to be provided by international organizations,” the military added in a statement.
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Trump Says Hamas ‘Didn’t Want to Make a Deal,’ Now Likely to Get ‘Hunted Down’

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 8, 2025. Photo: Kevin Lamarque via Reuters Connect.
i24 News – US President Donald Trump on Friday said the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas did not want to make a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza.
“Now we’re down to the final hostages, and they know what happens after you get the final hostages. And basically because of that, they really didn’t want to make a deal,” Trump said.
The comments followed statements by Middle East peace envoy Steve Witkoff and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the effect that Israel was now considering “alternative” options to achieve its goals of bringing its hostages home from Gaza and ending the terror rule of Hamas in the coastal enclave.
Trump added he believed Hamas leaders would now be “hunted down.”
On Thursday, Witkoff said the Trump administration had decided to bring its negotiating team home for consultations following Hamas’s latest proposal. Witkoff said overnight that Hamas was to blame for the impasse, with Netanyahu concurring.
Trump also dismissed the significance of French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that Paris would become the first major Western power to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
Macron’s comments, “didn’t carry any weight,” the US leader said.
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