students for justice in palestine Archives – Page 6 of 7

Tensions flare on UC campuses amid allegations against Jewish, pro-Israel student

Jared Sichel July 2, 2014

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) held an emergency teleconference on July 1 to consider allegations by the former leader of a pro-Palestinian student group that call into question the relationship between a pro-Israel UCLA student, who was recently nominated to the University of California Board of Regents, and local philanthropist Adam Milstein.

Battleground California: How UCLA became the epicenter of the campus battle for Israel

Jared Sichel May 28, 2014

If only Lauren Rogers had known what she was getting herself into when she signed up to go to Israel.

UCLA student judicial board defeats SJP complaint

Jared Sichel May 21, 2014

UCLA’s undergraduate judicial board — the student government’s equivalent of the Supreme Court — ruled Wednesday in a 4-0 vote that student government officers may take sponsored trips to Israel without it constituting a conflict of interest.

UCLA student court hears case against students who accepted Israel trips

Jared Sichel May 15, 2014

The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) campaign against UCLA’s pro-Israel movement became even more heated last week as the school’s undergraduate judicial board heard arguments in a case brought by SJP against two members of UCLA’s student government who had taken sponsored trips to Israel.

J Street’s real failure

David Suissa May 14, 2014

Just when J Street’s reason-for-being, a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, fell into a deep coma, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations gave the “pro-peace, pro-Israel” group new life by rejecting its bid to join the umbrella group.