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CU Boulder Has a Problem with Radical, Pro-Palestinian Faculty Group
CU Boulder. Photo: Wiki Commons.
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This statement entirely dismisses the identity of the Jewish people and the State of Israel by using the outdated stereotype that Israel functions as a colonizer state, and ignores the true reason for the current war — the mass rape and murder of Jews by a popular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While the statement was retracted following the university’s request, a revised version was issued that weakly expressed an opposition to antisemitism “in any form,” and continued to display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.
The post CU Boulder Has a Problem with Radical, Pro-Palestinian Faculty Group first appeared on Algemeiner.com.
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Israel’s Supreme Court Orders Improved Food for Security Prisoners
Israel’s Supreme Court. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
i24 News – Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday instructed the Prison Service (Shabas) to guarantee adequate food supplies for security prisoners, ruling that current conditions fall short of minimum legal standards. The decision followed an appeal filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
In a 2–1 ruling, the court found that the food situation posed “a risk of non-compliance with legal standards.” Justice Dafna Barak-Erez stressed that the matter concerned “basic conditions necessary for survival, as required by law,” not comfort or privilege. Justice Ofer Grosskopf agreed, noting the state had not shown the policy was consistently applied to all inmates.
Justice David Mintz dissented, maintaining that the existing policy already met legal requirements.
The court underscored that Israel’s legal obligations remain binding, even in light of the ongoing hostage crisis in Gaza and the fact that many of the prisoners include Hamas members involved in the October 7, 2023 attack.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir condemned the ruling, arguing that while hostages in Gaza lack protection, “terrorist murderers, kidnappers, and rapists in prison” benefit from the Court’s intervention. He added that prisoners would continue receiving only the minimum conditions required by law.
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Ukrainian Government Building Set Ablaze in Record Russian Airstrike
Illustrative. More damage caused by the Russian drone that hit the Perlina school in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 30, 2024. Photo: Jewish community JCC in Kyiv, Kyiv municipality, and Yan Dobronosov
i24 News – The Ukrainian government’s main building in Kyiv was hit overnight Saturday by Russian airstrikes for the first time since the war, igniting a fire in the building, authorities said. Firefighters are working to put out the flames.
“The government building was damaged by an enemy attack — the roof and upper floors,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko said. The blaze is is burning in the area of the office of the prime minister.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched a total of 805 drones and 13 missiles overnight on Ukraine — a record number since the start of the war.
Also as a result of the strike, a baby and a young woman were killed after a nine-story residential building was hit in the Svyatoshynsky district, also in Kyiv. Rescuers are still looking for a third body, authorities said. A woman was also reported killed in the strike in Novopavlivka village.
“The world must respond to this destruction not only with words, but also with actions. We need to increase sanctions pressure – primarily against Russian oil and gas. We need new restrictions that will hit the Kremlin’s military machine. And most importantly, Ukraine needs weapons. Something that will stop the terror and prevent Russia from trying to kill Ukrainians every day,” wrote Sviridenko after the attack.
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‘Trump’s Legacy Crumbles’: Israelis Call on US President to End Gaza War
Israeli protestors take part in a rally demanding the immediate release of the hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, and the end of war in Gaza, in Jerusalem September 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, issuing direct appeals to US President Donald Trump to force an end to the Gaza war and secure the release of the hostages.
Protesters packed a public square outside the military headquarters, waving Israeli flags and holding placards with images of the hostages. Some carried signs, including one that read: ‘Trump’s legacy crumbles as the Gaza war persists.’
Another said: “PRESIDENT TRUMP, SAVE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
“We think that Trump is the only man in the world who has authority over Bibi, that can force Bibi to do this,” said Tel Aviv resident Boaz, 40, referring to the Israeli prime minister.
There is growing despair among many Israelis at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has ordered the military to capture a major urban center where hostages may be held.
Families of the hostages and their supporters fear the assault on Gaza City could endanger their loved ones, a concern the military leadership shares, according to Israeli officials.
Orna Neutra, the mother of an Israeli soldier who was killed on October 7, 2023 and whose body is being held in Gaza by militants, accused the government of abandoning its citizens.
“We truly hope that the United States will push both sides to finally reach a comprehensive deal that will bring them home,” she told the rally. Her son, Omer, is also American.
Tel Aviv has witnessed weekly demonstrations that have grown in size, with protesters demanding that the government secure a ceasefire with Hamas to obtain the release of hostages. Organizers said Saturday night’s rally was attended by tens of thousands. A large demonstration was also held in Jerusalem.
There are 48 hostages held in Gaza. Israeli officials believe that around 20 are still alive. Palestinian terrorists abducted 251 people from Israel on October 7, 2023, when Hamas led its attack. Most of the hostages who have been released were freed after indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
NO PURPOSE
Trump had pledged a swift end to the war in Gaza during his presidential campaign, but nearly eight months into his second term, a resolution has remained elusive. On Friday, he said that Washington was engaged in “very deep” negotiations with Hamas.
Israeli forces have carried out heavy strikes on the suburbs of Gaza City, where, according to a global hunger monitor, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are facing famine. Israeli officials acknowledge that hunger exists in Gaza but deny that the territory is facing famine. On Saturday, the military warned civilians in Gaza City to leave and move to southern Gaza.
There are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering in the city that was home to around a million before the war.
A video released by Hamas on Friday featured Israeli hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 24, saying that he was being held in Gaza City and feared being killed by the military’s assault on the city. Rights groups have condemned such videos of hostages as inhumane. Israel says that it is psychological warfare.
The war has become unpopular among some segments of Israeli society, and opinion polls show that most Israelis want Netanyahu’s right-wing government to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with Hamas that secures the release of the hostages.
“The war has no purpose at all, except for violence and death,” said Boaz from Tel Aviv. Adam, 48, said it had become obvious that soldiers were being sent to war for “nothing.”
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since it launched its retaliatory war after Hamas fighters attacked Israel from Gaza in October 2023. Around 1,200 people were killed in that attack on southern Israel.
The terrorist group, which has ruled Gaza for nearly two decades but today controls only parts of the enclave, on Saturday once again said that it would release all hostages if Israel agreed to end the war and withdraw its forces from Gaza.
Netanyahu is pushing for an all-or-nothing deal that would see all of the hostages released at once and Hamas surrendering.
The prime minister has said Gaza City is a Hamas stronghold and capturing it is necessary to defeat the Palestinian militant group, whose October 2023 attack on Israel led to the war.
Hamas has acknowledged it would no longer govern Gaza once the war ends but has refused to discuss laying down its weapons.