Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine

LIVE: Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine and Palestine Legal are discussing their great legal victory over Fordham University. The University has been bl...ocking them from forming an SJP chapter on campus, but yesterday a NY court decided against the University so now SJP Fordham has an official space on campus to join with other students on campus to support the struggle for the human rights of Palestinians. See more

More coverage on Fordham SJP's legal victory! From the journalist: "A group of students sued Fordham University after they were denied the right to form a Palestinian rights club on campus. The students won.... A judge has ruled that Fordham violated its own rules and guidelines in denying the club. It's a big legal victory at a time when these kinds of conflicts over censorship are unfolding across college campuses, especially in regards to activism over Palestinian-Israeli issues."

CASE UPDATE: WE WON! Justice Nancy Bannon has ruled in favor of Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine. The court is overturning Fordham's ban of an SJP club, calling this decision "arbitrary and capricious" and acknowledging that the Fordham administration failed to uphold its own stated mission by denying us club status. We deeply appreciate everybody who has been following our case and supporting us over the past several years, including students, alumni, faculty, news media, free speech advocates, legal counsel, religious organizations, and grassroots/community organizations. Our supporters have helped us remain steadfast in our mission to uplift the Palestinian liberation struggle. Thank you all! Read the official Center for Constitutional Rights press release here:

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have been fighting a legal battle for club recognition on Fordham’s campus for over 2 years. Veer Shetty is the most rec...ent student to join the campaign for the club’s basic rights. Radhika Sainath wrote, these motions were argued over a year ago, so a decision is way overdue. An entire generation of students has graduated without being able to participate in SJP. https://fordhamobserver.com//sophomore-joins-sjps-legal-b/ See more

"Has been going on for a long time: An Israeli professor disclosed in a recent lecture series at Columbia University that Israeli authorities have permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian children. Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at Israel’s Hebrew University, also presented in Amsterdam in January on the same topic.... Promotional material for the events describe her lecture as illustrating through the voices and writings of Jerusalemite children who live under Occupation that Israel’s practices of surveying, imprisoning, torturing, and killing can be used as a laboratory for states, arms companies, and security agencies to market their technologies as ‘combat proven.’ Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s presentation was based on data she gathered for a research project for the university. The work, titled Arrested Childhood in Spaces of Indifference: The Criminalized Children of Occupied East Jerusalem, was published in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law in 2018 and co-authored by Shahrazad Odeh, who is also on the Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology at Hebrew University. In the article, the authors demonstrate how Israel’s policy of targeting Palestinian children and childhood through the criminal justice system is fundamental to the state’s mechanism of colonial dispossession. They shed light on the critical role that the Israeli legal system plays in the state’s racist project. Drug experiments on Palestinian prisoners Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed in her lecture at Columbia University that Israeli occupation authorities issue permits to large pharmaceutical firms, which then carry out tests on Palestinian prisoners."